"Peek at the Week" February 17-21

Here is a peek into our week :)

Writer's Workshop 

We published our first opinion piece this week! Thank you for helping your child gather a shoebox collection to use for this first bend of our opinion writing journey!

We focused on making our writing more convincing. One way writers do this is by "quoting experts". 

We learned that our classmates know a lot about the things in our collections. We can use their quotes to strengthen our arguments.

We also learned that writers add sparkle words and talk back to quotes in their writing. Look at how many ways we know to make our writing stronger!

Here are some of our finished pieces!

• Below is what the common core expects from first grades. As you can see, many of us can write beyond this expectation!
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.1 Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
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Reader's Workshop

This week we explored a new genre of reading- biographies! We emersed ourselves in biographies about Abraham Lincoln. We learned a lot about how readers read biographies as we learned many interesting facts about Abe Lincoln! 

We recorded our new learning on many graphic organizers which we housed in our reader response journals.

We read many types of texts throughout the week as we learned about Abe.

At the end of the week we took everything we learned and put it together in a report about Lincoln! 

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president? He was 6'4" tall!  We compared our heights to Abe! Wow was he tall!! 

Math Workshop

We finished up unit 4 on place value this week. Please look for this assessment in your child's folder on Monday.

Our next unit focuses on place value situations. The first half of this unit focuses on teen solution methods.  This week we explored the 'making ten' solution. 

You might notice throughout this unit that there are nights your child does not bring home homework. Many of the lessons will require two days to complete. Those would be great nights to use the make a ten cards or go on DreamBox Learning! 

I hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Love,

Mrs.Hogue