Bears, Bears Everywhere!

We continue to work deligently in first grade! Take a look at the pictures below. The students are hard at work during their Language Arts block.

Futaba app-word recognition

Short "o" review

Read a BIG BOOK-once silently, once aloud, once to your bear!

NOUN SORT

Smart Board noun sort!

BANANAGRAM Spelling

Sand Spelling

Bear puppets-working on fine motor skills!

Skip Counting by 2's

ABC order with BEARS!

We're Going On A Noun Hunt!

BIG BOOK reading....

With Mrs. Waller they continued to work on their spooky Halloween stories. They are becoming quite the authors! We look forward to sharing these stories with you at conferences.

With Miss Fate the students have been working in their Handwriting Without Tears workbooks reviewing uppercase letters and numbers. She also guided them in their phonics books.

On Thursday, the students were introduced to Mountain Language. Mr. Ronan guided the students as they completed a Mountain Language worksheet. Mountain Language allows the students to build on numerous language arts skills. The students love it and always have so much fun.



The Number Eating Alligator Song!

In math this week the children have reviewed their doubles and taken their doubles test! We have introduced subtraction;  greater than, less than and equal to; and sorting according to attributes. We are having a blast in math! Thursday we got to compare different attributes of our bears, we sorted, classified and compared results.

Using dominoes to practice >, <, =

Using water bottles with dice.....

BEAR Attributes!

The students have been introduced to the panda bear in social studies this week. Take a look at our panda bear project from TNT below:

Mrs. Waller guided the children as they color coded a map of North America. The map shows the locations of the four bears that live in North America: Alaskan brown bears, black bears, polar bears, and grizzly bears.

First color the key, then the location on the map!

Mr. Ronan had the children interview their teddy bears. This is always a favorite activity during the bear unit.

Discussing their bear interview......

The interview results......

In computer lab we visited www.ABCya.com and played the 100 # Grid, Raceway Number Values and Drop Sum to enhance our classroom curriculum.  This allowed us to review the hundred chart, >,< & =, and our friends of ten! After these games were played they were allowed to visit the holiday section and choose from three different Halloween games.


In Hands-On Science the children went outside and secretly collected items according to a specific attribute. After math on Thursday they were ready for this! For example, if their attribute was smooth, they had to find items matching this attribute. Once inside, the students laid their collections out so their friends could guess their attribute! Another successful Hands-On Science!

Spelling Words- Week #4 October 22-26, 2012

Phonics Skill: variant vowel /o/a (all) and high frequency "th" words

tall, call, fall, small, ball, the, they, then, there, that
Challenge words: Halloween, adjectives, world, goblin
Surprise the teacher ???????????


REMINDERS:

New Students Lunch Oct. 24th @11:15am

 

Music Program, Oct. 25th @9:00am in the Stage MPR area

Friday, Oct. 26th is SPIRIT DAY! Spelling Test & Conference Questionnaires are due back to school!

Wednesday, Oct. 31st @9:00am The Halloween Ball!

Thursday, Nov. 1st & Friday Nov. 2nd Parent/Teacher Conferences

Have a great weekend!
Sara and Melissa