January 20-23

Happy Friday, families!  It was a short week, but we remained extremely busy with new learning and performing!  Check out what we've been up to in first grade...

Reading 

This week we dove into our new unit over story elements. After reviewing the main story elements (characters, setting, problem, and solution), we were able to discuss and read to practice...

• thinking about characters as we read
• learning about characters
• describing characters
• how characters change
• identifying a setting

Question:  Describe a character in a book you are reading.  How does that character act?  How does that character feel?

Writing

We are wrapping up our first nonfiction book over animals.  We worked in our books to...

• write an introduction
• write a closing
• add a glossary and bold words

Question:  How did you hook in your reader at the beginning of your nonfiction book?

Math

The first graders are working hard on collecting, organizing, and inventorying by...

• adding on new packs of 10 (ex. 43 + 10, 26 + 40...)
• playing collecting stamps
• playing rolling for 10s

Question:  How can you use a 100s chart to help you add new packs of 10?

Science

In science we continued working in our unit over balancing and weighing by...

• finding the weight of objects in cubes

Question:  How did you use cubes to find the weights of objects?

Looking ahead...
1/27- Author Judy Young Visits