Our class photographer for the week was Jill, and she took over 65 photos of our activities! She was a busy girl! Here are her favorite photos and captions from the week:
We have been in school for 110 days (on Monday)! We count money every day in calendar.
We have 19 people in our class.
A kid is doing rainbow words for spelling practice.
Kate and Lily are doing read to a buddy during Daily 5.
It was Leilani's birthday on February 28th.
Matthew is pulling a word up for our word sort.
Kate and Emilia are doing read to a buddy.
We did a math thing exploring the My Reference Books.
Reading
This week, our Treasures theme was “What’s the Weather?”, and we used a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the the types of weather we were reading about. Our spelling and word work focused on long /a/words. During grammar instruction, we learned about the present and past tense forms of the verbs “go” and “do”. Next week, our Treasures theme will be “What Scientists Do” and we will practice summarizing and revisit making inferences as we read the selections for the week. Our spelling and word work words will all contain the long /e/ sound, using the -ee or –ea vowel blends. Our focus for grammar will be on using the correct form of “see” or “saw”.
Writing/Social Studies
This week in writing, we will finished our President reports and our unit on George Washington, Abe Lincoln, citizenship, and American Symbols. As a culminating activity to go along with our Social Studies focus, we completed a Venn diagram like the ones we’ve been learning about this week in Treasures instruction, and compared and contrasted our friends George and Abe. We have 19 George and Abe experts in our room! Their reports turned out so nicely, and will be hanging in the hallway, so make sure to stop and take a look at all of their hard work when you are here for conferences!
Math
This week in math, we explored our My Reference Books, or MRBs. This is a tool that may be used from time to time as a reference to supplement our math instruction. Next, we practiced collecting data and making bar graphs to analyze the data we collected on calculator counts. We graphed our results to show how many counts each student in our class reached after 15 seconds of programming their calculator to count by ones. Finally, we took our Unit 6 test on Thursday and are ready to begin Unit 7 next week!
Unit 7 focuses on Geometry, and we will begin the week with a lesson on attribute rules. Students will analyze attribute blocks to group blocks by shape, size, and color. Next, we will have an Explorations day, when we will explore attributes, designs, and a new concept that will be used to reinforce math fact practice, called Fact Platters. On Wednesday, we will use pattern blocks and our pattern block template to make shapes. We will wrap up the week with a lesson on making polygons. And as always, please keep practicing the sets of math fact flashcards and fact triangles at home! Your extra practice at home will pay off!
Science
We are now switching gears from Social Studies back to Science as we begin our Penguin unit! This week, we heard a sound that many thought was a fire truck or police siren. It turns out that the sound was actually that of a penguin! Next week, we will be focusing on what we wonder about penguins, and what we already know or think about penguins before diving in to our penguin instruction. This is always a unit that the students enjoy SO much, so I am really looking forward to all of the excitement that surrounds learning about penguins in first grade!
Announcements
**Please remember to send in your purple confirmation slips for your conference times if you have not done so already so I can lock in our conference times and finalize the conference schedule.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Glaser ☺
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