Guided with Miss O'Connor this week the kids have been making mind maps and turning them into paragraphs over the story they read, "Landmarks." They have been learning all about Martin Luther King with the Scholastic magazines. With Mrs. Sansale this week the kids are starting their research reports over their Famous Americans. The kids love researching! We will finish all of them up and share these in Social Studies next week & the kids will present their paper dolls with them. The research reports will come home in the memory books at the end of the year.
Some of our centers this week included: listening to The Magic School Bus Statue of Liberty, putting together huge floor USA & President puzzles, Pancake Flip with our spelling words, writing our spelling words in a snail spiral, using the iPads with the Rocket Math app (money), Starfall.com on the computer, framing a word with the a_e pattern and writing it in a sentence, using President cards to gather info. on them, started our math number scrolls, we worked in our phonics books, and we practiced framing a word with VCV pattern.
Social Studies-
We have been learning about all the landmarks, symbols and memorials of America. We learned about The Great Seal as well as Martin Luther King. LOOK AT THE FABULOUS PAPER DOLLS THAT HAVE COME IN.....!!!! (Steve Jobs, Maya Angelou aka Coco DeLeon not pictured, Shirley Temple, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sally Ride, Jacqueline Kennedy & Benjamin Franklin)
Math-
We have been continuing to learn about the coins & dollars. We are reviewing the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollars & dollars. We have watched a money video that showed us how to count money & make change. Then, we practiced how to make change which is a hard concept to get especially in first grade!!! The kids enjoyed playing the money game. They were all on teams of 4. They had a pile of coins and bills. Mrs. Sansale would give them an amount and each person at their table would have to make that amount in coins and bills. As soon as a team all had the exact amount one person would ring a buzzer. Mrs. Sansale would come around and check to make sure the entire team had counted right. If they were all right they would get a point. It was so much fun!!!
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| Making Change with Miss O'Connor....hard concept that the kids did great with! |
HANDS ON SCIENCE: THE CHILDREN MADE ROTO-COPTERS IN SCIENCE AND PRACTICED DROPPING THEM FROM THE STAIRWELL TO WATCH THEM SPIN AND DROP THEM ON A TARGET. WE TIED IT INTO THE HISTORY OF HUMAN FLIGHT.
IPADS: WE PLAYED STACK THE STATES APP....THIS IS A GREAT APP THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR USA THEME!!!
Reminders: (NO BOOK IN THE BAG WILL BE COMING HOME FOR A BIT SO WE CAN FOCUS ON OUR USA PROGRAM AND PROJECTS)
***Start practicing your speech with volume & expression!!! THEY ARE COMING HOME TODAY!
START GATHERING YOUR COSTUME OR BE THINKING ABOUT IT FOR OUR PROGRAM ON FEB.5TH THE STUDENTS DRESS UP AS THEIR FAMOUS AMERICAN ON THIS DAY (IF YOU WANT TO EMAIL A FORMER FAMILY TO SEE IF YOU CAN BORROW THEIR COSTUME ...MRS. SANSALE CAN GIVE YOU SOME IDEAS.
Monday, January 19TH-- NO SCHOOL MLK DAY!
Wednesday, January 21ST-- PAPER DOLLS ARE DUE! (you can bring them in earlier if you want)
PRACTICE YOUR SPEECH EACH NIGHT .....
Optional:
If you have change at home, in the car or in a jar and you wouldn't mind donating it to the classroom we would love to use it for our math lessons. We have coins here ....some of them are paper, plastic and we would like the real coins. Just send it on it with your child. Thank you!
SPELLING:
Phonics Skills: long vowel o and u with silent e
Spelling Words: phone, grove, mope, robe, stone, cute, tube, rule, flute, huge
Challenge Words: statue, speech, nation, history
Surprise:YOUR FAMOUS AMERICAN!! (first & last name)
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