"Peek at the Week" November 10-14

 Math Workshop

This week we continued learning about unknown partners in subtraction situations. We learned that we can count on from the known partner to find the unknown partner. It is much easier for children to solve 7-4=? by starting at 4 and counting on 5,6,7 than to start at 7 and count backwards 4. It also helps children better understand the relationship between addition and subtraction. 

We practiced solving number stories this week by drawing math mountains and writing both an addition and subtraction story that represents the situation. 

On Friday, we explored a new app called 10 Frame Fill that helped us practice solving unknown partners in both addition and subtraction equations! 

Reader's Workshop

We continued retelling on the Yellow Brick Road! This week we put all of the pieces together to retell our stories. We layed out the yellow brick road and practiced retelling during independent reading!

We also got a bookmark to keep in our bookbins. We used them to help us retell. We really worked on retelling the most important parts of the story! We had opportunities to practice retelling in small groups, with partners, and independently! 

Your child is bringing home his/her retelling bookmark this weekend to share with you!

Word Work

This week we started our 10 week study on vowels! 

1st graders are expected to:

*Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds

*Recognize the silent e makes a vowel long

*Identify basic long vowel patterns (ex. ai, ee, ou, etc.) 

This week we began learning about the long and short sounds of A. 

We sorted long and short a words/pictures 

We also got out our highlighters and highlighted Long A words! For this activity we practiced identifying long A words with the silent E.

In addition to learning about vowels, we are still learning 5 new word wall words each week! This week we learned the words:

There 

How

If

Will

Too

We practiced these words on a fun website called Spelling City! You can access this through my blog on the website page!

Next week we will be reviewing all of the word wall words we have learned so far, so there won't be any new words. 

Science 

We started learning about the water cycle this week! We noticed that our puddles we put out last week dried up, or evaporated! 

When water evaporates it forms clouds in the sky! We read a fun story about clouds called It Looked Like Spilt Milk!

Then we made our own version of the book by painting clouds with shaving cream and glue!