Mrs. Hogue's 1st Grade Class: "Peek at the Week" January 20-23

We had another great week together! Take a look at our week!

MathWorkshop

We started our week learning to use doubles to help us solve addition probelms with teen totals.

In the picture above, you can see how knowing 6+6=12 helps us solve 6+5 and 6+7.

First graders are expected to use any strategy to solve within totals of 20. For some, this may still mean using their fingers. Children will spend the beginning of 2nd grade strengthening their strategies when solving within 20.

We then began studying two digit numbers we learned to describe 2 digit numbers by identifying how many ten groups and ones a number has.

We can also use that knowledge to help us compare numbers.

Reader's Workshop

This week we focused on inferring character's feelings, charters's traits, and

tricky words. We studied the book Oliver Button is a Sissy.

When we infer, we combine our own thinking with clues from the story.

I was so proud of these first graders- they came up with these inferences all on their own!! This is something great to do at home when you read higher level texts to your child.

Word Work

This week we focused on the long and short sounds of Ee. We also learned 5 new word wall words:

Get

Back

Did

Day

How

We had fun practicing these skills this week!

ZAP!

Children take turns reading words on sticks until someone draws the ZAP stick!