We have officially arrived in the land of the kangaroos, koalas, emus, wallabies and many more! We are having a blast as we begin our Australian unit and the preparations for our International Festival.
Our language arts block has been fun this week as Mrs. Waller wraps up reading assessments and Miss Fate continues reading and working in the phonics book. Your children have been hard at work this week. Take a look at the pictures below:
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| Starting our Australian journals.... |
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| Reviewing place value.....Make the Least! |
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| Base Ten Fun and Base Ten BINGO at ABCya.com |
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| Marsupial Sue a story on Tumble Books.... |
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| Sign It! Spell it! |
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| Making -ai and -oa words.... |
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| Roll the dice and stamp the coin amount.... |
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| The Australian Outback....this week's listening center.... |
In social studies, Miss Fate introduced Australia and presented each child with their Australian animals. They are all so excited! Mr. Ronan was a sub on Tuesday and was able to share his experiences from his trip to Australia. Maybe we will all get there some day!
In math, Miss Fate introduced fractions which is something we introduce as we teach time. Mr. Ronan (Mrs.Waller's sub) began our Flat Stanley graphing activity. While reading one of the Flat Stanley books the students create their very own FLAT SELVES! We will use our FLAT SELVES to complete a variety of graphing activities. We will continue to review time, fractions, graphing, money and many other concepts until the end of the school year. At this point in first grade we like to see the students developing a strong sense of numbers.
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| Our FLAT SELVES! |
****Due to the two snow days obviously, it has been a short week. We plan to take Friday's spelling test on Monday and continue as scheduled with the spelling words below for next Friday. Let us know if you have any questions about this.
Spelling Test for March 1st
Phonics Skill: digraphs- "sh" and "ch"
New Spelling Words:
brush, shelf, wish, short, flash, check, chin, inch, such, branch
Challenge: marsupial, Aborigine, boomerang, because
SURPRISE the teacher!
REMINDERS:
2/22--Spirit Day!!!
3/1--Painting Australian Animals at school with the parent volunteers that signed up to help
3/5--Cultural Arts Field Trip to see Skippy Jon Jones (on the calendar as of now)-permission slips will be coming home soon.
3/7 & 3/8-- Parent Teacher Conferences
We hope you have enjoyed your days at home with your children. Let them know that we miss them and will see them on Monday. Enjoy the weekend!
Sara and Melissa
In social studies, Miss Fate introduced Australia and presented each child with their Australian animals. They are all so excited! Mr. Ronan was a sub on Tuesday and was able to share his experiences from his trip to Australia. Maybe we will all get there some day!
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