The Week of March 13

 

Upcoming Events

Juniper Creative Residency March 21-23rd

The first and second graders will work with Jenn and Will Kasso for a short time each day to create a mural at WES!

We are looking for family volunteers to help in during this exciting workshop! Please contact me if you are able to volunteer!

Monday- Wednesday 9:00-9:45

***Please send your child to school with a water bottle each day***

***Also, it is helpful to have an extra set

of clothes here at school or in your student's backpack- Mud season is upon us!***

Leprechaun Trap Building

On Tuesday and Thursday we built some awesome leprechaun traps with our Big Buddies from Mr. Braun's class! Let's keep our fingers crossed we catch Lucky the Leprechaun! 

First Grade Math

In math, the first graders are learning how to use a number line. We created a giant number line in our room. We worked with numbers from 0-100. Students counted  forward and backward by 1s, 5s and 10s. We used our number sense to make connections, such as : what number lands halfway between 0-10 and what number lands halfway between 0-100? 

Readers' Workshop

In reading, the first and second graders are working hard on using various reading strategies as they bump up into hard words in their texts. Here is a chart of the strategies we are using in class! I work with small groups each day to practice a variety of reading skills. 

We are also working on reading our Folk Tale plays with fluency. Students are  learning to read the author's speech tags. For example, " The sky is falling," yelled Chicken Little.  We are learning to read with expression- matching the character's feelings. It is really fun and exciting to hear the progress each child is making in reading fluency.  Our class we will be performing our plays in the next few weeks. Please look out for your invitation!

Writers' Workshop

This week in writing, the first and second graders worked on writing about their favorite animal. This is a shared writing project, where students are learning about the organization of an opinion piece. We worked on writing beginnings, and supporting our opinions with reasons. Next week, we will work on rereading to be sure our pieces make sense, and we will learn how to end our opinion pieces. Students will also create a painting to accompany their writing. We will display these pieces in our room. 

Fundations/Spelling

This week, we reviewed all welded sounds and suffix endings. Students worked on new trick words and enjoyed making choices on how they can practice these words. Students used a spelling menu to choose different activities.