Friday, September 4, 2015

Myself, Others & A Caring Community



We are a caring 1st grade community!!


What a fun and productive week we've had in first grade!! We began this week with instructions for our centers on Monday.  The children were great listeners and had to pay close attention in order to follow the directions correctly. We did some brief mini-lessons to review the short a sound, abc order & vowels and consonants. This week we followed our tic-tac-toe boards that consisted of word work and writing centers. The transition went smoothly and we hope this will get even easier as the weeks progress.

Magic C handwriting lesson




Short A sounds on the smart board

Our word work tic-tac-toe board

Listening center

Opposite puzzle
Handwriting in the commons


Finishing our shoes

Calendar activity

TNT back to school Jingo
TNT name activity
In our theme activity we introduced a Venn Diagram to show how we are alike and different


Working on our letters to you!

Our first student authored books!
We read this book on emotions and how to deal with them
Hands on science! We talked about attributes.
Searching for items outside in different categories
We collected like items in bags
Are these items smooth? Patterned? Light?


Recording our findings
In math we read a book about how to use our froggy number lines
Then we did our own hopping!


Working with our tools
We also reinforced with the smart board

Adding with dice also
Working with evens and odds

Computer Lab: with Miss Ahrens & Mrs. Lorfing: Sight word bingo & marble math addition on www.abcya.com 


REMINDERS:
***The first graders in both classes have been doing an excellent job on bringing in their take-home folders each day. We are working on our life skill of responsibility and they have shown a tremendous effort by returning their folders each day! Also, remember to wear appropriate shoes on P.E. days and send a snack daily. The family collage we sent home this week is due on September 21st, but can be sent in any time before then. Thanks!

Scholastic Book Orders (Online only) are due on September 10th for Mrs. Sansale, and September 11th for Mrs. Lorfing.

Labor Day, Monday, September 7th-- No School

We would like to encourage you to follow our specials teachers on their blogs as well! Here are links for you to follow to see what students are working on in music and P.E.

http://spedsoconnell.blogspot.com/

http://spedsshurtleff.blogspot.com/

Enjoy your long, holiday weekend!
Love,
1st grade teachers




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