First Grade Newsflash!

First Grade Newsflash

Every Thursday be on the lookout for our First Grade Newsflash!  As a class, we will be picking an important event that is happening in our classroom.  The class will help me to write the sentence.  This is called interactive writing.  Interactive writing helps students with identifying high frequency words, letter formation, spelling patterns, and sentence structure.  Enjoy!

During buddy reading today students shared their published persuasive writing pieces.  This was a practice for our celebration this afternoon where we shared our pieces with our third grade buddies!

Force and Motion

We ended our force and motion day by enjoying this music video by Okay Go!

Force and Motion Day Success!

A little Bit of Last Week...

We earned a celebration, so we borrowed the Keva Planks from Mr. Bouchard.

Mr. Bouchard came in last week during Math Menu to teach small groups how to play Turtle Robot.  It is a board game about coding.  This was to help us get read for Coding Week which is this week.  This week during Math Menu students are exploring Box Island and Lightbot which are coding apps.

Pattern Shapes

Students used the ipads and real pattern blocks to recreate their partner's designs to end our first shape unit.

Fire Safety and a Trip to MRP

MRP Tomorrow

Make sure to dress in layers and with proper footwear for our trip to MRP tomorrow!

Cardboard, pigeons, and more!

The cardboard challenge was so much fun!

 Our new writing unit is persuasive writing and convincing our readers about our opinions.  We have been reading a lot of pigeon books by Mo Willems because the main character is always trying to convince the reader about something.  This week we started working on making our pigeons for our bulletin board!

 Our third grade buddies came to read with us in our classroom yesterday!

Third Grade Buddies!

We met with our third grade buddies from Mr. Barker's room to do some reading!

Celebrations, Sight Words, and a Visitor!

We finished up our first writing unit with a celebration.  All the published books are being showcased on our First Grade Favorites shelf.

 Students received a list of sight words to keep in their book boxes, so they can practice reading them independently or with a buddy.  They also learned a buddy game called Guess My Word?  A student picks a word from the list and the other student or students ask yes or no questions until they figure it out what the mystery word is.

 Nurse Lindsay came back to visit us again to teach us about dental health!  Students even got a goody bag to bring home!

Stuffed Animal Day

Stuffed Animal Day

We have reached another Paws Points goal!  We will be celebrating by having stuffed animal day on Wednesday (10-18-17).  Students may bring in a stuffed animal but it must be small enough to fit inside a backpack.

Two Visitors, Shapes, and Bubbles!

We started a new math unit about shapes!

 We worked on publishing our favorite small moment stories this week.  Students even created their own covers.

 Nurse Lindsay came in and taught us about germs!

 Anna Joppe-Mercure came back to help us finish our fish for the Original Works project.  Students colored their fish and even got to paint with bubbles!