December 1-5

The first graders are back on track with a week filled with new learning.  Here's what was happening at Barretts this week...

Reading
This week we started the Nonfiction Reading Unit.  We are navigating through the text features of a nonfiction book!

• Compared nonfiction stories to fiction stories
• Learned about Headings and Subheadings
• Learned about Table of Contents
• Learned about Glossary and bold words
• Learned about Illustrations and Captions

Question:  How does a Table of Contents and Glossary help you decide what to read in a nonfiction text?

Writing

We continued our small moments writing unit by diving into...

• Making our stories real by bringing our feelings from the inside out
• Adding dialogue to our words
• Adding speech bubbles to our pictures
• Adding sound effects
• Creating a class anchor chart of all the skills we have learned this unit.

Question:  What are some of the skills you learned in this unit?  Which skills did you put into your story?

Math

We are learning to tell time!  

• How much time is a second, minute, and hour?
• Kinds of clocks
• How to write the time 
• Time to the hour
• Time to the half hour

Question:  What time do you get up in the morning?  Show me that time to the hour on the homework clock.

Science

We started a new science unit - Balance and Motion.  Students have really enjoyed investigating how to balance objects.

• Explored concepts of balance
• Explored concepts of counterweights
• Explored concepts of stability
• Balanced a crayfish, triangle and arch
• Solved problems of balancing through trial and error

Question:  How do you balance a crayfish?  How do counterweights help?  

Reminders

12/19 - Holiday Party (2:40-3:40)

12/19-1/5 - Winter Break