We had E.L.F. this week. We learned about trees and twigs!
We had three third grade experts come and show us how to tap maple trees! They did a great job teaching, and it was very exciting to taste the sap!
Mrs. Jop came in on Thursday. She taught us how to make a new kind of book. It is called an Accordion Book. We are using them for the "How To" pieces we have been working on.
Math Centers
Students worked on the Telling Time app and the Base Ten Fun app on the Ipads. This was our second week of our Math Problem Box center. Students are busy writing story problems, and solving different story problems in their Math Journals. Students worked with Ms. Henault on subtracting 10 from a number.
Here is a video of the class singing The Bubble Gum Song. This helps students to remember the value of coins!
Here are 3 Reader's Theater presentations that my reading groups presented for Mrs. Baer's reading groups. Sorry that the recordings are a little quiet and a little bumpy!
We have been working on writing poetry about objects you might see all the time. First graders are putting on their poet eyes and thinking about the objects in a different way. As a class, we wrote a poem about this screw. We first wrote down our thoughts, and then divided them into lines to make them sound more like a poem or a song.
I hope everyone enjoyed their half day of school! This week we were busy busy writers in our classroom. We worked on our "How To" books and some poetry. Some students get stuck on what they can write about during Daily 5 writing time. This helps students to remember the different kinds of writing we have practiced this year.
As first graders, we are really working on slowing down and checking our work. These are the four steps we are using when checking or editing our work. Students must check that their letters are formed correctly, they started their sentences with an uppercase, ended with a punctuation mark, and pointed to every word to make sure they have not left anything out.
We had an awesome Author's Celebration with our kindergarten neighbors. Both classes shared their "All About" books. Some students shared in small groups and some shared with a partner!
We started our unit on plants. We read the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and students shared what they knew about plants using the words have, need, and give. Next week we will plant seeds, so that we can do some observations.
Here are 2 videos we watched this week to help us learn about plants!
Math Centers
For math centers this week, students used an app called Mathmeteer. This helps students with multiple different math skills such as adding, subtracting, counting by different numbers, shapes, and much more. We started a new math center called Math Problem Box. Students write addition and subtraction story problems and put them into the box. They then get to pick a story problem someone else has written and solve it in their new Math Journal. At the Ms. Henault center, students worked on adding 10 to a number. Students used hundreds charts to help them discover that when adding 10 a number the ones place doesn't change but the tens place does.
Our Word Wall words this week were these, other, and more.
This week we have been working on graphing and answering questions about our graphs during Morning Meeting. As a celebration, every student got to graph the number of each color of M&Ms inside a Fun Size pack of M&Ms.
Students learned a new game called Make a Train. This helps students to identify a pattern and the units within a pattern.
We have been practicing reading our "All About" books to a partner. We will be having an Author's Celebration on Monday in Mrs. Bouchard's kindergarten class. First graders will be paired with kindergartners to share their "All About" books.
Math Centers
On The Ipad center, students worked independently on an app called Notability. These were the steps they had to follow.
At the game center, students played Minus Maze which they learned last week. Students came to me to prove 2 different math conjectures. Students proved that adding 1 to a number will always make it go 1 number higher, and that when subtracting 1 from a number the number will always go 1 numbers lower.
During Science, students continued to explore magnets. One day they explored different things magnets would or would not stick to. We will be starting a new unit about plants on Monday!
We had a lot of fun exploring magnets on Thursday! Our discussion question was, "What do magnets have to do with force and motion?" Here are some pictures of the class exploring!
Math Centers
Our math centers this week focused on our addition and subtraction skills. Students played Sum Swamp and used apps that focused on these skills. I taught students a new board game called Minus Mission that helped practice subtraction skills. We discussed efficient ways to solve subtraction problems.
We started a new Math Unit called Color, Shape, and Number Patterns. We started today by building patterns and discussing different ways to describe a pattern.
Our Word Wall words this week were out, use, and time.
We had E.L.F. this week. We learned about trees and twigs!
