Here's a glimpse at another week in 1st grade!
PAJAMA (and crazy / mismatched socks!) Day!
Congratulations to our Star Student, Kiran!
Thanks Mrs. Talley for coming in for small groups! Also, thank you to Mr. Jaje for coming in on Tuesday! We were so busy with out activities that I forgot to take a picture. :(
These are some of our students practicing their spelling words and recognizing proper nouns! They are allowed to go to the white board area when they have completed all of their reading work.
Thanks to Mr. Talley for coming in to read with us!
We've been working on our phonics skills by sound tracking. The students LOVE this activity.
We start by me saying a word to the class. For example, "run". The students check their letters to see if their letter belongs in the word. If yes, they come up to the front and form their word. Then, I'll say "I have run. Now I want 'ran'." and the student that's holding the sound that has changed sits down and the person holding the new sound takes his/her place. It's an excellent way to learn sound and letter correlation! It helps us with our spelling, too.
Our Fun Friday this week was SHOW AND TELL! We were excited to share our treasures with the class. :)
We used several strategies to understand sums of 10. We used pennies, a dice and this rainbow sheet. The students used it to recognize which numbers added together equal 10. We have a math test on Monday!
We've also been recognizing common and proper nouns. Here is the chart I have in the classroom for students to use as a reference:
This upcoming week, we will be covering:
Math: reading thermometer / non-standard linear measures / personal foot and standard foot
Science: weather investigation / weather safety & public speaking / observe changes in water
Reading: Junior Great Books week! (The Mouse and The Wizard)
Writing: informative / explanatory text
