"Peek at the Week" October 5-9

Reader's Workshop

This week we learned how readers can listen to reading. This is important in first grade because it gives children th opportunity to interact with higher level texts and models appropriate fluency.

In our classroom we will listen to reading in two ways.  This first is by using Tumblebooks.  This is a website filled with hundreds of fiction and nonfiction stories that are read to children.

The second way is on our iPod. The students follow along with the audio reading right in their books.

We learned the routines of listening to reading and how it fit into our reader's workshop block!

Math Workshop

We learned about partners of 9 and 10 this week.  We will focus on ten partners frequently throughout the year because knowing these facts will help us solve problems with greater totals!

We finished our first unit and took our first test on Thursday! These were sent home in your child's folder on Friday. Please review and return!

We also learned a fun new game called addition top-it!

Writer's Workshop

Our focus this week was bringing our stories to life. We studied different authors such as Cynthia Rylant and 

We learned that writers want to make the people in their stories move and talk. We learned how to add speech bubbles to our drawings. Some of us are even trying out quotation marks to show talking parts in our writing!

Writers also include details by taking 'itsy bitsy' steps when they write. They don't want to skip over any important details.

Finally, writers want to include how the people in their stories feel. 

Word Work

We added 5 new word wall words this week:

Be

Have

Here

This

That

We had fun using QR codes and iPads to complete a word wall word hunt around our classroom!

We also learned a new game called ZAP!

We had fun practicing our words with one of or favorite activities- roll and record!

Practicing our words on spelling city!

Science

We continued our study of weather. We learned about thermometers this week and how scientists use them to check the temperature. We recorded the temperature inside our classroom. Then we went outside to find the temperature!

What a fun week!

Love,

Mrs. Hogue