Friday, October 30, 2015

We learned about Lake this week through his timeline!

Yay! We were 1st place in the box top collection! Thank you to all that saved, clipped, and counted! We get to choose between a pizza or donut party!  The kids were so excited!!!

This week:

We learned about characters and found their traits. I read the students some of my favorite books and we visualized the story in our minds.

The Character show was a hit. They wrote about their character and read it to their 3rd grade buddies. Thank you for helping with this!!






In math, we built numbers with tens and ones blocks and we used greater than and less than signs to compare the numbers.


Next week:

Your conference time will be sent home on Monday.

The sight words for this week: do how if she their
Remember to say and write these words at home.

We will be learning about adding with 3 numbers in math next week. During reading, we will read books about animals and make our own questions about the book. We will make a zoo enclosure while continuing to learn about tens and ones.

Friday, October 23, 2015

We learned more about Cooper through his timeline this week.

Reminder: Early out on Wednesday Oct. 28th

This week:

We learned about the season fall. We researched some information about fall on the computer and we also read tons of stories about the season. While reading those stories, we focused on the main idea and details.


We also spent some time talking about Fire Safety. My brother is a firefighter and he came and discussed fire safety and showed some of his gear.




In math, we sorted shapes and built large shapes with smaller ones. We also split into groups and practicing addition and subtraction.

In writing, they wrote some creative stories about what they like to do in the fall.


Next week:
Our words next week: an each there use which

Thank you for reading with your children each night and practicing their sight words!!!

We will be focusing on characters and comparing them. I sent this note home on Wednesday.

Please have your child bring one of their favorite books to school on Monday Oct. 26th. We will be learning about the main character in each of their stories. On Friday Oct. 30th, the students will get to dress up like their favorite character and tell us about them.Once I learn more about their characters, I will send home a more detailed note of what they need to wear. 

They will only being dressing up for part of the day so please have them wear regular clothes to school.

In math, we will start learning about place value with tens and ones.

Friday, October 16, 2015

Terri got to share her timeline with us this week!

This week:

Reading: We read stories about Christopher Columbus and informational books about sink and float. We discussed what the table of contents does during guided reading.

Math: We made a poster of the attributes of shapes. They learned how many sides and points. We also built different objects with shapes.

Writing: We finished our opinion stories on fairy tales. We started learning how to write a list with commas.

We also learned about continents and oceans. They built a ship like Columbus to see if it would sink or float.












Next week:

Our words next week: can said we your when

We will be doing Autumn activities. We will research about fall on a computer and read books to find the main idea and details. In math, we will continue to learn about shapes and use them to review addition and subtraction skills.  We will write a story about something we do in the fall.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Brod Bagert was at Jefferson today! The students had a blast listening to him animate his poems and the first graders got to write a poem with him. They really enjoyed it!