February 9-12

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 continue to dive into our current reading unit, Story Elements.  This week we learned how to...

• explain how one event causes another (like dominoes)
• identify the central message (or lesson) the author is teaching
• talk about the central message and support our thinking with evidence from the book

Question: What is the central message in one of your books?  Support your thinking with evidence from the book.

Writing

We are wrapping up our Nonfiction Expert unit this week.  We...

• selected a draft
• revised our nonfiction book
• edited and peer edited our book
• published and celebrated!

Question: What was a revision you made to improve your nonfiction book?

Math

This week we continued to work on word problems, but our focused shifted to balancing equations.  To practice these skills we...

• solved to find out if an equation was true or false
• balanced equations (7 + __ = 6 + 4)
• revised false equations to make them true

Question: What strategy is most helpful to you when balancing equations (number line, hundreds chart, adding on, counting back...)?

Social Studies

We are working through our current unit, This is Our County.  The students really enjoy learning about the symbols that represent our country.  This week we learned facts about...

• The Liberty Bell
• The Statue of Liberty

Question:  What is one fact you learned about The Stature of Liberty?  What is one fact you learned about The Liberty Bell?

Upcoming Events

• 2/13 No School-Records Day
• 2/16 No School-Presidents Day
• 2/26 Report cards come home