Week at a Glance!

We had another fantastic week in first grade with a whole lot of learning and fun!

We welcomed a new student to our class on Thursday! Kaiden fit in great and has began to make many friends! We are very excited to have him in our classroom!

Reading!
We started a new unit in reading this week where we were able to start learning different strategies to help us solve tricky words! We learned to start by doing work with our book before even reading the words! We looked at the cover, title and back of the book and thought about what the story might be about. We then took a picture walk through the book. This is when we only look at the pictures to get a clue as to who is in the story, what might be happening and where it is taking place. This was all done before we even read a word! When your child is reading with you at home, have them practice this before reading work! We learned that it can help us solve some of those tricky words.

We also learned that we can look for parts of words we already know to solve tricky words. For example, since we know the word "is" in a snap because it is a sight word, we could solve the word "his" by just adding the /h/ sound to "is"!

Writing!
We continued to work on our Small Moment stories this week! We learned about editing our writing by going back and making sure we have correct spelling and punctuation. We then did a review lesson on stretching our words to make sure we had all the sounds we hear written on paper. We talked about how it is okay if it is not the exact spelling, but that we have to make sure to write every single sound we hear so that others can read our writing.

Math!
Math had us counting a lot this week! We discussed how to count effectively when we have a large set of objects! We decided that putting the objects in groups of tens and then counting the groups was the best way when we have a large set! Mrs. Schmitt came into our room too and was able to see how we were counting this way! She taped this during her visit! Awesome job first graders!

Math Counting!

Nutrition in Action!

This week Mrs. Lambert taught us about the protein group on My Plate! We learned that cereal, bread, pancakes and pizza crust are examples of proteins we might eat! We then were able to create pizzas following a certain recipe! Our special treat this week was a veggie pita. It had homemade ranch dressing, pretzels, spinach and a piece of red pepper inside a pita! It was a big hit even with the kiddos who were a little hesitate before taking their no thank-you bit! 

Extra Recess!
CONGRATULATIONS to our 1st grade class! We earned our first extra recess of the year for receiving 20 class S.T.A.R slips! We got an extra 15 minutes outside with the playground to ourselves on Thursday! We are working towards a second extra recess which we will get when we earn another 20 class S.T.A.R slips! Keep up the super work!