First Grade News:
The students worked on writing another short moment story this week. The children were asked to take an incident, which took place in a short period of time, and write what happened first, next, and last. Some of the topics that the children wrote about were: playing soccer or football, going out into the garden, going on a water slide, going to a fair, going to visit grandparents, or going on a trip. I was impressed with all of the students’ writing. We also talked about adding details to our stories to make them more interesting. The children enjoyed reading their stories to each other and having their classmates help them come up with details that they could add to their stories. For example, one child wrote about seeing a bear. The class wanted to know how big the bear was and where it was. I can’t wait for you to have a chance to read your child’s stories at Open House on the 25th.
We have been reading poems and stories in class that are about mice! The children learned how to make a mouse out of the lowercase letter “m” and then we decorated our class rule chart with “m” mice. We even have some word bubbles where the mice “talk” about our rules.
I have posted a picture of our class rule chart on the "Our Rules" page of this website. It is really cute. I have also put on several pictures that show some of the things we have been doing in class. If you have time to post a comment, I know that the class would enjoy hearing what you think about their work. If you look at the end of this entry, you will see blue letters that say "add comment."
The students worked with their multiaged peace groups again this week. Each group worked on making a road. Each child is coloring in a car for their road and writing their wish for peace on their car. Mrs. Marks, our guidance counselor, also met with the first grade students and read a story about peace flags. Each child will be making a peace flag.
During our math time, we worked on problem solving strategies. First, I asked the students to identify the important numbers in the problems we looked at. Then, we talked about what we had to do with those numbers, and what words in the problems could help us to figure this out. We found that if we read the word “more” we were going to add our important numbers.
Our Scholastic News article was about the author, David Shannon, who wrote the book No, David. We learned how this author’s good work habits help him write great books.
The students worked on writing another short moment story this week. The children were asked to take an incident, which took place in a short period of time, and write what happened first, next, and last. Some of the topics that the children wrote about were: playing soccer or football, going out into the garden, going on a water slide, going to a fair, going to visit grandparents, or going on a trip. I was impressed with all of the students’ writing. We also talked about adding details to our stories to make them more interesting. The children enjoyed reading their stories to each other and having their classmates help them come up with details that they could add to their stories. For example, one child wrote about seeing a bear. The class wanted to know how big the bear was and where it was. I can’t wait for you to have a chance to read your child’s stories at Open House on the 25th.
We have been reading poems and stories in class that are about mice! The children learned how to make a mouse out of the lowercase letter “m” and then we decorated our class rule chart with “m” mice. We even have some word bubbles where the mice “talk” about our rules.
I have posted a picture of our class rule chart on the "Our Rules" page of this website. It is really cute. I have also put on several pictures that show some of the things we have been doing in class. If you have time to post a comment, I know that the class would enjoy hearing what you think about their work. If you look at the end of this entry, you will see blue letters that say "add comment."
The students worked with their multiaged peace groups again this week. Each group worked on making a road. Each child is coloring in a car for their road and writing their wish for peace on their car. Mrs. Marks, our guidance counselor, also met with the first grade students and read a story about peace flags. Each child will be making a peace flag.
During our math time, we worked on problem solving strategies. First, I asked the students to identify the important numbers in the problems we looked at. Then, we talked about what we had to do with those numbers, and what words in the problems could help us to figure this out. We found that if we read the word “more” we were going to add our important numbers.
Our Scholastic News article was about the author, David Shannon, who wrote the book No, David. We learned how this author’s good work habits help him write great books.