Here is a summary of our week written by first graders during Writer's Workshop:
First grade is fun! We read “Wemberly Worried” and our class did a project about the book with watercolors.
Some kids got to be king or queen of the day. The smartboard picks who it will be. We are trying hard at reading. Every day, we add more minutes. We got to 5 minutes. We are trying for 20!
One of my goals this year is to have children help me co-author the blog so you can learn about parts of our week through the eyes of the children!
Here is a peek at the rest of our week!
Reader's Workshop
We launched reader's workshop this week! We leaned three ways that readers can read books.
Children then had time to practice these types of reading while we worked on building our stamina. Ask your first grader if they know what stamina means! Stamina is reading long and strong. Just like runners need to run a little bit each day before they can run a mile, readers need to practice reading for longer periods of time in order to build their reading stamina.
We learned what a first grade reader's job is during read-to-self and what Mrs. Hogue's job is.
We kept track of our stamina each day. This week we built 5 minutes of stamina! Our goal is to get to 20!
Math Workshop
This week we explored some tools that mathematicians use to help them solve problems or represent their thinking.
We can use unification cubes to represent patterns, help us add and subtract, compare, and make ten groups!
We can use pattern blocks to help us learn about fractions and to make new shapes by combining differnt blocks!
We also looked at base 10 blocks. We can use these math tools to help us represent 2 digit numbers and to make ten groups.
Writer's Workshop
We got to know our friends in Mrs. Armstrong's class this week! Each of us were partnered with a new friend to interview
Look for our special projects out in the hallway next week!!
Other fun activities!
Did you hear about King and Queen of the day? Each day, we will crown a new friend to be our king or queen of the day! We will get to know them better by interviewing them and learning how to write their name! And the best part...you get to wear a crown all day!! We crowned two queens this week!
We also started a fun project to go along with the story Wemberly Worried.
Wemberly worried, worried, worried about everything! There are many thing to worry about when starting a new school year, but now that we have been in first grade for a week we don't have to worry as much!
We used our water colors to paint our own versions of the cover of this book!
The Stormonth Way
Some of you may have heard your child talking about 'boot camp' held here at Stormonth this week! We are very excited that our school is now a PBIS school. That stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support. Basically what this means is that our ENTIRE school will be using consist language and expectations when teaching children about our rules at school. During 'boot camp' we leaned about Line Basics, Think 2, Voice Levels, and the expectations in the cafeteria and playground.
Learning about Think 2 in the bathroom.
Mrs. Grimm-Nilsen will be proving more information during Parent Orientation Night!
I hope your first grader enjoyed their first week in first grade! If they were anything like me, I bet they were very tired each night :)
Enjoy your weekend!!
Love,
Mrs. Hogue
Thanks Mrs. Hogue we loved seeing this to ask some great questions about school!
ReplyDeleteJesse and Tyler