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It was so fun to wrap up our Trip Around the World with our first grade concert! Thank you all for attending and supporting Team 210! We hope you enjoyed the show! This week, even with our special presentations and concert preparations, we found time for some really meaningful conversations in word study, math, and writing! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we got new books in our reading groups that we picked specifically because they had great examples of dialogue. We know that good dialogue adds expression to a story and we can use examples from our own lives to figure out what tones are appropriate during certain situations that our characters get into! Word Study...This week, after having finished with r-controlled vowels, we moved on to syllables! We know that a closed syllable ends on a consonant sound. For example, in the word "blocks," the vowel sound of o is closed in by the ending digraph blend cks. "Blocks" is one syllable and that syllable is closed. Math...We continued our conversations about place value this week by building with longs (tens) and cubes (ones). We know that when a digit is in either the tens or the ones place, the value of that digit is changed. We will continue building two-digit numbers by representing them with base-ten blocks, and will begin to add them next week! Our Fact Power focus was on the Numbers Two Apart strategy. If the addends in our number sentence are two apart, such as 6 and 8, we can quickly solve for the sum in two ways. The first is recognizing this as a Doubles + 2 fact. 6+8 = 6+6+2 or 12+2. The sum is 14. The second way we can solve is by recognizing that since 6 and 8 are two apart, the number in between them is 7, and if you double 7 you also reach 14! These are more efficient options for solving rather than starting at 8 and counting on. It's always good to know some tricks! Writing...We had so much fun this week writing a fiction story together on chart paper! Our story included introducing a new character and setting, chapters, dialogue, secondary characters, a mystery, and more! Hopefully, more practice writing fiction stories all together will help us generate ideas for our own stories. We will be publishing our fiction pieces before April Vacation! Upcoming Events!
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Hello First Grade Families!
What a fun-filled week we had together! From traveling the world, using text features, and putting Me on the Map, to building Leprechaun traps, we definitely stayed busy! Please read below to find out more about what we did in room 210 this week and to find some annoucements and photos! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we were able to apply some nonfiction text features as we practiced labeling. We labeled sketches of what we would pack in a suitcase if we were going on a trip, and we labeled the materials we used in our Leprechaun trap designs. Labels help us identify what we are looking at! Word Study...This week we were introduced to the remaining three r-controlled vowels. These were -er and -ir and -ur. The interesting and challenging thing about these three combinations is that they all produce the same sound! So, when we are spelling, one strategy we may need to rely on is spelling the word we want several ways to see which one looks right. We also studied the new trick words, her, over, and number. Math...We introduced our unit on place value this week. We began by re-introducing ourselves to the base-ten blocks. We know that a "cube" is a unit of one, while a "long" is a unit of ten. We practiced exchanging ten cubes for one long and also built the first letter of our names out of longs and cubes and found the value of our letters. Writing...Our writing time was used partially this week to fill in our "passports." We watched two wonderful and fact-filled presentations this week about Italy and Prince Edward Island, Canada, respectively. Each presentation had a power point full a pictures, meaningful artifacts, and a related snack to taste! We compiled facts we learned about each country and added one fact to the passports we created. We also discussed dialogue this week in series texts. We know that the way something is said can add more tone to what is said. We can use, shrieked, and yelled, and exclaimed instead of just said. We will add dialogue to our series. Upcoming Events!
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Can you believe how many snow days we have had this year! Hopefully, this was the very last one! Although the snow is growing tiresome, the day off did give us a chance to ease back into the week after break! March is always a tough push during the school year because it is a generally uninterrupted month. Pretty soon we will be at April break, and then after that it is the home stretch to the end of the year! Wow! We have lots of exciting things planned this month! Please read below to find out what we did in room 210 this week and below that will be some annoucements and photos! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we continued reviewing the text features present in nonfiction texts. As your children bring home some nonfiction texts in their book bags, or if you have any in your home, help your child locate features such as photographs, labels, bold print, captions, the table of contents, and the index! Word Study...This week we were introduced to two new sounds made by r-controlled vowels. These were -ar and -or. We learned that when "bossy r" stands after a vowel, it makes us skip the vowel sound and jump right to the sound of the r. We also studied the new trick words, should, would, and could. Math...We continued our second week of number line practice! We have discussed all of the parts necessary to form a number line, how we should reasonably space numbers on a number line, and how to make small and large jumps. We can even solve word problems by using a number line! Next week we will begin our next unit on place value. Writing...As we continue writing our fiction stories, this week we were introduced to the idea of a "series." In a series, we know that the characters stay the same, while the settings, events, problems, and solutions change! We read Henry and Mudge: The First Book where we were introduced to our main characters and how they met each other, and compared it to a Henry and Mudge: The Long Weekend to see how the events changed in a new story even though it was still about Henry and Mudge. We also began writing our own series! Upcoming Events!
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