Dear Families,
Here is our week in review:
Ms. Clark finished her last solo week this week. Congratulations, Ms. Clark! We are so proud of you. She will still be with us full-time for another few weeks. We are grateful for that.
Social-Emotional Learning:
● This week, we continued our focus on community. Every day, we introduced a
new word of the day and tried to implement those words into our daily conversations. Some words this week were “compromise” and “responsibility.”
● During Second Step, Ms. Clark led a lesson on managing worries. We read the book “Wemberly Worried” by Kevin Henkes and identified the worries that the main character experienced. The students made personal connections and shared their own worries and ways to calm down.
● We continued to work on what it means to be respectful listeners when our friends are
presenting. We primarily focused upon the importance of having calm bodies and how our facial expressions signal to others how we feel and react.
Reading:
First grade readers worked hard again this week on improving their independent
Reading stamina. They continued using their reading packets with several reading choices such
as reading to a stuffy or being a sentence detective (having to find a question,
exclamation, and statement in their books).
First graders also rotated through guided reading groups throughout the week as well.
We also started to read nonfiction books about the rainforest. We will continue this work for the next few weeks as we attempt to bridge the gap between reading and writing and encourage the students to also read to gain new information. The students will also learn more about the differences between fiction and nonfiction books and their respective characteristics. Stay tuned for more information next week!
Writing:
This week we began our rainforest unit. Students used pebblego to choose which rainforest animal they want to learn more about. Pebblego is a fabulous online reading platform, which can also be used from home. The url is pebblego.com. Please see my email for usernames and passwords to access this from home. Have fun reading and learning about science at home!
This week acted as an introduction to the rainforest. The students learned about the different layers of the rainforest. In small groups, they drew pictures of each layer and its animals. Towards the end of the week students had a writing prompt on the following topic: “IfI went to the rainforest I would...”.. They did an amazing job! They had great ideas about what to do there as well. We can’t wait to share these with you. Ask your child to share what he/she would like to do in the rainforest.
First Grade Math:
First grade mathematicians continued practicing their clock skills this week. We began
each math class with having our student leader for the day state the date and what time
the clock on our clock calendar showed. The students played “clock memory”, matching analog and digital clocks.
The students also continued their work on adding three digit numbers and anchoring to ten efficiently.
Science:
Science this week was directly connected to our new learning about the rainforest. In addition to learning more about this specific habitat, the students also learned to locate these habitats on a map.
In a few weeks, the students will create their own rainforest animal diorama. We are in need of shoe boxes and paper towel tubes for this project. If you have any at home to share, please consider donating them to us for this special science project. Thank you!
Have a great weekend,
Maria
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