Mrs. Hogue's 1st Grade Class: "Peek at the Week" November 12-16

It was another great week in first grade! I am so proud of how hard many of my friends are working! This week we spent quite a bit of time reviewing "The Stormonth Way". We are 51 days into the year, and it is always helpful to review what it means to be safe, be kind, and be fair with your child!

Here is a peek at our week!

Reader's Workshop

This week we learned that readers talk to their books as they read! This was silly to think about at first, but it soon made sense because we have all had thoughts in our brains in response to something we have read!

We practiced talking to our books by reading a funny story called The Ugly Pumpkin. In this story, a pumpkin feels left out because he doesn't look like the other pumpkins. We stopped and talked about how we have had feelings like the poor pumpkin. Many of us 'told' the book about a similar experience.

After reading and discussing the story, we wrote about a time we felt like the pumpkin.

At the end of the story we find out that "Oh my gosh- he's a squash!!" We then talked about adjectives (describing words) and came up with some *positive* adjectives to use to describe the squash and then made these cute squash projects!

Next, we learned how to talk to our books using sticky notes. Sticky notes are a great way to record anytime we 'talk' to our book. Here is a look at some of our book talks!

"Sometimes I need help!"

You should include everybody.

I have an imaginary friend too!

He came alive!

At the beginning he use to hate the baby and the cat but now he loves them.

I would want to see what was inside too!

We added sticky notes to our chart to show off our our thinking and connections!

On Friday we started a book about the Mayflower. We learned what a difficult journey the pilgrims made to come to the new world.

Then we thought about what one thing we would bring if we had traveled. It was *adorable* to see what one special thing each child wanted to bring!

Writer's Workshop

This week we focused on stretching sounds we hear in words and including the 'inside' and 'outside' of a story. Many of us realized it was getting rather tricky to read our stories because we were not including all the sounds. To show this more clearly, we switched our stories with our writing partners to see if they could read our stories. Uh-oh! Many of us had to go back and include ALL the sounds in each word! (and spell popcorn words correctly!)

In addition, we also spent a lot of time sharing our stories.

Word Work

This week we focused on the long and short I sounds. Here is a look at some of the activities we did!

Math Workshop

This week we focused on frames and arrows. In the frames and arrows diagram, there are frames (shapes) connected by arrows that show the path from one frame to the next. Each arrow represents a rule that determines which number goes in the next frame.