"Peek at the Weeks" March 16-20 & 23-27

We were busy bees in first grade before spring break!  Take a look at what we were up to!

Math Workshop

We started a new unit on data analysis. 

We started the unit by organizing data into categories. We cut out bugs and sorted them into different categories;

Wings/no wings

Color

Legs/no legs

We learned how to represent and organize data that we collected.

We then learned how to analyze data. Before we can talk about our data, we found it helpful to draw matching sticks. This way we can easily see what is the difference between each category! We worked on using our vocabulary words more, fewer, most, and fewest to talk about our findings!

Finally, we learned how to collect data. We came up with a survey question to ask our friends. Then collected, organized, represented, and analyzed our data!

Reader's Workshop

We learned readers are always on the lookout for new and interesting words when they read. This helps us to learn new and exciting words!

Although the it is fun to find interesting words, we quickly learned that it is important for readers to understand what tricky words means. We can use clues from the story to help us figure out a words meaning.

We practiced this with a story called Matthew's Dream. After we read the story, we worked with a partner to figure out what the words entranced, gazing, and emerged meant. We got to record out thinking on a copy of the page from the book! We used both the picture and the words to help us determine the words' meaning. We had some wonderful discussions!

Our last week was spent on fluency!  We thought about what makes a good audience reader. 

Each of us chose a just right book to practice reading out loud. We used everything we knew about figuring out tricky words in order to make our reading sound interesting. After practicing, we read our books to each other in a small group! 

Them, we recorded on reading on the iPad!

I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing spring break!