We had a wonderful week here in 1-1. It was filled with lots of fun learning adventures. View of news clip and read all about it below!
Literacy
This week, the children finished learning the last components of the Daily 5. On Thursday and Friday, the children practiced all of the Daily 5 routines: word work, work on writing, read to self, read to someone, and listen to reading. They are doing a great job of building their stamina and working quietly. We will continue to fine-tune the routines next week.
This coming Monday, we will begin guided reading groups. The children will work on the Daily 5 while I meet with small guided reading groups. Your child will bring a book bag home at least one night a week. Please read the book with your child and send it back to school the next day. During curriculum night, I gave you handouts on ideas for reading with your child and a reading strategies bookmark. These will be helpful if you are looking for ways to help your child with reading or ideas for questions. If you have misplaced your copies please let me know - I can make you a new set!
Writing
This week, the children finished publishing their four autobiography pieces. They worked hard to rewrite their pieces in their best handwriting and drew illustrations that were careful, colorful, and detailed. The children also illustrated a front cover for their work. Next week, they will put their work together to create their very own autobiography book. To conclude the unit we will have a celebration of their writing. We will join Mrs. Glaser's class and the children will get to read their autobiography to a group of friends. The books will then become part of our classroom library. This will allow the children to enjoy reading each others writing.
Math
In Math, we wrapped up our first unit. The children practiced reading temperature ranges on a Fahrenheit thermometer. They made the connection that the degrees on the thermometer go up, just like numbers on the number line. The children worked with tallies again and created a tally chart of their favorite seasons. They also practiced solving number stories using counters and a variety of math strategies that we have learned. Several children came up to the board and showed the class how they arrived at their answers. The class also enjoyed telling number stories for their classmates to solve.
On Wednesday, the children had fun reviewing all of the math concepts from unit 1 with Mimio Vote. Our classroom was turned into the set of, Math Review Mimio Vote. The children became contestants in the game and answered questions using their own clicker. They enjoyed my performance as game show host!
On Thursday, the children took their first math test. Their test came home today. I was so proud of how hard they worked on the test, they did a great job! We will begin unit 2 on Monday. A note will come home via backpack mail detailing the concepts that will be taught in this unit.
Social Studies
This week, we began our Map unit in Social Studies. The children learned about the seven continents and oceans this week. Thank you to all of you who had friends and relatives visit our blog. I can not even begin to express the excitement the children had every time we viewed our ClustrMap. They could not believe that people had visited us from so many places. We have had visitors from four continents so far! It has really helped the children to learn the names of the continents and taught them some countries that are located on the different continents.
The children enjoyed two projects this week, Me On The Map and creating a map of the world using a paper plate and cut out continents.
A special thank you to Johnny! He brought in a large map to share with the class. The children enjoyed using it to write a story about where they would go, if they could travel anywhere on the map.
Next week, we will continue our Map unit. The children will learn about landforms and basic map skills including an introduction to the compass rose, cardinal directions, and map keys. If you have any books at home about maps or map keys, please send them in to share. Just make sure your child’s name is in the book. I will return them at the end of the week.
Royal Reader
We enjoyed a visit from Mr. Robinson today, he was a wonderful Royal Reader. The children loved his magic trick of making the books appear! He read two books, The Giant Jam Sandwich and Goodnight iPad. Thank you Mr. Robinson for coming and sharing these amazing books with us!!
A note from our fantastic librarians:
Have a great weekend!
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