Hello First Grade Families!
Hopefully there is no snow to darken our skies this week! We are optimistic in room 210! Last week, we celebrated the beginning of spring by taking the opportunity to discuss the living things around us. Though we automatically think of people and animals, the living things around us include the plant life that is beginning to bloom all around us! We are discussing the attributes of living and nonliving things in order to prepare us for a upcoming unit on New Hampshire wildlife. What better way to learn about what things need to stay alive than to discover it ourselves? Each of us is keeping a "Chia Pet" (of our own making) in the classroom! We will water our plants, make sure they have plenty of sunlight, and observe how they grow over the coming weeks! Stay tuned to watch their progress! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we finished our current reading group books and continued to divide our time between reading and practicing our word study principles. Some literacy activities that have been consistently included in our routine are rearranging jumbled words to make a sentence, practicing our new vowel teams by spelling with magnetic letter tiles, and dictating vowel team words to reinforce those long vowel sounds. We just took our Unit 9 Fundations assessment which will be coming home shortly. Word Study...This week, while reviewing closed syllables and our long a and long e vowel teams, we were also introduced to two new vowel teams that produce a sound similar to long o. These are -oi and -oy. Math...As we continue to grow in our confidence with place value, we are able to take on so many new tasks! We have applied place value to two-digit addition, and this week, began comparing the values of numbers based on their place value. One meaningful activity was realizing that digits do not have a value unless they are in a place value. For example, we practiced taking two digits such as 2 and 7 and arranging them to make the lowest and highest numbers we could. The 2 had the value of 20 when it was in the tens place and the 7 had a value of 7 when it was in the ones place to make 27. But if the digits were reversed, the 7 would have a value of 70 in the tens place and 2 would have the value of 2 in the ones place to make 72. We will continue discussing the importance of differentiating the digit vs. the value. Writing...We used our writing time this week to brainstorm what it means for something to be living or nonliving. We decided, as a class, that things that are living need: food, water, sunlight, sleep, shelter, safety, and an appropriate habitat Upcoming Events!
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