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| You've gotta have FUN at school! |
Take a look at the pictures
below for our integrated language arts time. Your children are doing so
well working independently and staying on task. Ms. Lorfing has guided the children in small groups as they learn about VERBS/action words!
Guided reading also continues as Mrs. Waller works with the students in
small groups. It is amazing to watch the growth here in ROOM 101!
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| Evan is creating a flap book to illustrate his understanding of our guided reading story. We have talked a lot this week about comprehension and it's meaning. When we read, we must understand the story! |
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| Julian corrects the sentences and then writes them on his recording sheet! |
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| RHYMING WORDS REVIEW! |
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| The kids play I HAVE, WHO HAS with action verbs! I have RUN, who has SKIP? |
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| Finley creates his very own community! |
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| Page goes on an action verb hunt! |
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| THE NEON SLATE! Write your spelling word and record it on a practice spelling test! |
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| VERBS that POP! |
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| Reading with the phones! |
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| The students cut out their popcorn and complete their verbs that POP! |
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| Abby uses her comprehension wheel to demonstrate her understanding of the story she just read in her guided reading group. |
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| Right after chapel, occasionally we will do a short mini-lesson to review a concept being taught. This week the children were asked to go on a short "a" hunt independently while looking through a book. Many of the students had difficulty with this task; many would write down any word with an "a" and not listen to the sound. As a result, on Thursday morning we did a mini-lesson on short "a" for a review and then sent all children off on a hunt around the room.....above, Julian and Maddie are doing just that! |
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| SIGN IT! SPELL IT! Page signs her spelling words and writes them on her recording sheet. |
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| BANANAGRAMS with community helpers! The children use the BANANAGRAMS to spell the words |
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| We are learning about what good readers to in our small reading groups. One of the things a good reader does is: ASK QUESTIONS! Here, David is reading a non-fiction book on the migration of Monarch butterflies. If he has a question in his mind, he writes it down on a sticky note for his entire group to review when done with the story. WOW! Your children are amazing! |
In math this week, Mrs. Waller
has introduced the children to DOUBLES. Memorizing our doubles can help
us when calculating math problems mentally. If a child knows that 5 + 5
= 10, then they will soon use this knowledge to calculate that 5 +
4(one less) = 9 (one less) or 5 + 6(one more) = 11(one more). We have learned a doubles rap (your children are quite the musical geniuses) to make the learning FUN! We continue to work with the hundred chart during number corner as we work to build our number sense! We review the concepts of odd/even, tallies, ten frames, etc.. almost every day. Ms. Lorfing also continues to work with the students and their problem solving strategies. Below Finley uses a chart to help him solve the problem!
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| Our DOUBLES RAP! |
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| Our doubles flap book....we used these to study and quiz our partners! |
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| The children play a doubles game: roll the die, double the number and cover that number on your board....the first person with 5 in a row wins! |
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| Finley practices his doubles on his dry erase board! |
In social studies in this week, Ms. Lorfing has wrapped up our study of Myself, Others and a Caring Community. The children have completed their flap book comparing rural, suburban, and urban communities. They have also continued to learn about a variety of community helpers.
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| Maddie brainstorms a list of things that a teacher does....from this list, she creates a complete sentence to demonstrate her knowledge. |
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Jack thinks about what a FARMER does within a community!
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IN TNT on Wednesday we got
together with Mrs. Sansale and Miss O'Connor's class to get pepped up for the
buddy run! Your children are so excited and so creative. We came up with our very own lyrics to Take Me Out To The Ball Game! The song is now called: Take Me Out To The Buddy Run! No kidding, this one may top the charts! The children were so excited!
BUDDY RUN
Sorry there are not as many pictures as usual, as you know it was rainy and chilly. We did the best we could and your children still had so much fun. Thank you, Ann Fasel, for making it a great time!
Take a look at pictures from our END OF THEME celebration! What a day we had today!
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| The Responsible Table |
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| The Sharing Table |
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| The Caring Friends' Table |
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| The Community Table |
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| Together we created a work of COMMUNITY ART! Each student chose a color and then wrapped it around several different screws! This amazing finished project will be for sale at the AUCTION, don't you worry! |
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| Almost complete! We have three more students that need to contribute and then we will all sign the back! Just think, this beautiful piece of artwork could grace the walls of your very own home in just a few short months! |
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| Their very first spelling test! Your children did great! |
SPELLING WORDS:
Phonics Skills: short "i" and phonograms -it, -ill, -ink, -ick
WORDS: sit, bill, pink, sick, hit, this, with, will, if, in
CHALLENGE: grizzly, bear, hayride, pumpkin
SURPRISE THE TEACHER WORD??????
REMINDERS:
Monday your child can bring in their very own teddy bear to keep in the classroom with them during our BEAR theme! This bear should be able to sit on top of their cubbies....so not too big, maybe the size of a shoebox. It will stay here every night, so make sure they won't miss it when going to bed. We will use our teddy bears to do many different activities in the classroom....it is so much fun!
Wednesday, October 8th--Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch-Every child will need a disposable sack lunch and drink for this field trip.
Monday, October 13th--NO SCHOOL-professional development day for teachers/Columbus Day
Friday, October 17th--end of the first quarter
Wednesday, October 22nd@ 9am-- first grade fall music performance!
Thursday/Friday, October 23rd and 24th-- parent/teacher conferences
Thank you to the volunteers who have started coming in to help us! We appreciate all the help. We have had a another great week, which is no surprise. Enjoy this fall weekend. We will see you on Monday and we will be ready for BEARS!
Sara and Carey
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