February 16-20

It's been a very busy week in first grade with the shorten week! Take a look at what we've been up to...

Reading

We continued work with our current reading unit, Story Elements. This week we learned how to...

• looked at the story from the characters point of view
• learned that a character change might signal a central message
• learned about realistic fiction
• talked about text-to-text connections

Questions:  What does realistic fiction mean (could this story really happen)?  What does it mean to look at a story standing in the characters shoes?

Writing

We began a new writing unit, Persuasion and Book Reviews.  This is what we learned...

• teacher shared opinions about her collection
• students shared opinions about their collections
• opinions need more than one reason

Questions:  Why do opinions need more than one reason?  How did you use your collections to learn about opinions?

Math

We wrapped up the Place Value and Properties Unit and began a new unit, Extending Numbers and Operations.  This unit continues to look at place value with more challenging work.

• unit assessment
• adding one and two digit numbers with cubes
• adding one and two digit numbers to 100
• game-follow the pattern
• game-PIG

Question:  Can you tell me how to play PIG?

Social Studies

"This is Our Country", the current unit in social studies has been a fun and exciting unit as the children are learning about our country's national symbols.  Here is what we learned about this week!

• facts about the White House
• facts about the Bald Eagle
• worked on our American Symbols Book

Question:  Can you tell me three facts about the White House?

Reminders

2/26-Progress Reports Sent Home

3/4-Late Start

3/10-Book Fair Begins

3/11-Parent/Teacher Conferences

3/13-No School

3/16-Spring Break Begins

3/23-School Resumes