PBIS Classroom Celebration: A Little Spring Craft....

 

.....and a Little Spring Sledding!

 

Literacy:

During Literacy over the past 2 weeks students have engaged in close read alouds of, “Summer Sun Risin’.”  To deepen their understanding of the content of the story, students have role-played the main events. In their writing, students have described characters, settings and major events in the story using key details. 

During Word Study our work with vowel-consonant-e words has continued practicing spelling and reading words with a long vowel sound and silent e. We will wrap up this unit before vacation. Our next unit will focus on multisyllabic and compound words.  Please keep helping your child practice weekly heart words at home.  Thank you!

Reading fluency work has been focused on partner reading and how to coach a friend when we hear a mistake.

Math Workshop: Story Problems with an Unknown Change

First graders were introduced to strategies for understanding and solving addition and subtraction problems with an unknown change this week. That is, they investigated problems in which a start number and result are known and used strategies to determine and understand the change, that is how many items were added or subtracted. Using the context of pennies in a "penny jar", shells in a bucket, or balls in the gym, athematicians must determine what they know in a problem and then determine what they are solving for. As important as an accurate solution, skills for interpreting this type of problem as an unknown change (rather than an unknown result) are being incorporated into instruction. A home edition of the Penny Jar Game is in Thursday folders this week to support this skill at home. Enjoy!

DONATIONS OF HAND SANITIZER (please!)

 In an effort to keep our classroom safe and healthy, we are STILL in need of donations of large-sized hand santizer with pump.

Thank you! 

Spirit Week!

Literacy: The Sun, Moon, and Stars and V-C-E Syllables

In Literacy we have shifted our focus to learning about the sun, moon and stars.  We have begun to examine literary texts about celestial objects.  First Graders are exploring the question, “Why do writers write about the sun, moon and stars.”  Our work begun this week by focusing on noticings and wonderings about the sun and moon with close viewings of photographs and time-lapse videos.  

Next week we will launch a new unit in word study that will introduce students to the vowel-consonant-e syllable pattern.  Additionally, they will learn that the letter s might say /z/ when placed between two vowels.  Heart words for this unit include: friend, other, another, none, nothing.