First Grade News: Fun, learning, and BEARS-- OH MY!!!

We are so excited to be in our new unit of study-- BEARS! It's a wonderful theme filled with lots of fun and information.

In Language Arts, we started the week on Monday by going over all of our new centers. The majority of the activities are all review to reinforce skills we have learned up until this point in the year. In small groups, Miss Fate worked with students reading books at their level and visualizing things about the story. An important reading skill is being able to picture things in your mind to improve comprehension. Mrs. Wyllie's groups worked on recognizing and writing different types of sentences in preparation for starting our Halloween stories next week. Take a look at the great work we are doing!!

Typing our spelling words

Reviewing short a words for our spelling test

Handwriting practice

Short o story

Pirate missing addends

Creating sentences

Fun on the smart board! Compound word or not a compound word?

Spelling words with beans

Searching for short a words

Friends of 10 app on the iPad

In math, we are reviewing some skills and introducing a couple of new things as well. Miss Fate focused on doubles facts-- ask your child to hear the doubles rap!! The students got to do lots of hands on activities to help reinforce their knowledge of doubles facts. Mrs. Wyllie focused on missing addends using friends of 10, 10 frames, and even more difficult equations like 8+ ___ = 17. It was awesome to see all the different strategies the children use in solving these missing addend problems!

Learning the doubles rap!

Trying to find the matching number to make a doubles fact

What's the missing addend that she should have?!

Doubles cover up

Doubles facts with q-tips and blue paint!

We found our missing addend!

Missing addend Halloween center

Filling in a hundreds chart

Pumpkin doubles matching game

In Social Studies, we introduced our new bear theme. Students helped to create a KWL chart (what we already know, what we want to know, and eventually what we learned.) We focused on learning about the black bear this week. The students also got to introduce their teddy bears to the class. We are happy to welcome our new 1st grade bears: Maine bear, Zusi, Yoda, Bozo, Ted Brownie Gould, Nakita, Blacky, Reese, Marshy, Benkenobe, Victor, Buggy, Fluffy, Cha-Cha, Fluff Biscuit, Lucy Cupcake, Black-eyed colorful cheer, Kerby, Chef's Chair, Honey, Harry, Hugable Warm Rapper, and Coffee!

Our KWL chart

Reading in our theme notebooks about the black bear

Bears at recess!

Some of the bears we will learn about in our unit

This week also brought our very first field trip! We had a wonderful time watching Henry and Mudge at the historic Folly Theater. The children were extremely well behaved and loved the performance!!

Waiting for the show to start!

We love field trips!

Say cheese!

Excited to see Henry and Mudge!

The Folly Theater

And of course, our week culminated in the BUDDY RUN! Thank you for your continued support of St. Paul's and this wonderful event. We had an awesome time and showed a tremendous amount of school spirit!