December 15-19

Happy Holidays, First Grade!  This first half of the school year has been packed with a lot of learning, fun, and hard work.  Take a look at what we've been up to as we wrap up our final week before Winter Break:

Reading
We are continuing to navigate our nonfiction books by...

• Letting our questions and new learning lead to new questions
• Identifying a main topic
• Identifying key details
• Reviewing nonfiction text feature

Question:  Which text features can help you identify the main topic?

Writing
This week we are wrapping up our Small Moments Unit by...

• Revising
• Editing
• Peer Editing
• Publishing
• CELEBRATING!

Question:  What makes a small moment?  What are a couple writing skills you have put into your published small moment book?

Math
After ending our measurement and data, students began to explore combinations of 10 by learning these new games...

• Make 10
• How Many Am I Hiding?
• Counters in a Cup
• Tens Go Fish

Question:  What are all the combinations of 10 you can make by combining 2 numbers?

Science
We are coming to an end in our Balance and Motion Unit.  This week we wrapped up our unit by investigating...

• Wheels and axles
• Rolling cups

Question:  How can you get a cup to roll straight?

Coming up...
Winter Break- 12/22-1/2
Late Start-  1/7
Abra-kid-abra Math Residency Program- 1/12-1/14
FGIF Event- 1/16