Week 28

It was a great first week back in room 112!

In math, we are finishing up our penguin unit. The penguin experts have studied and compared different types of penguins and even created their own 3-D penguins!

This week we started our new writing unit -- All About (expert topics). With no research required, All-About books give the first graders a chance to explore their own expertise and share as an author. We are going to continue working on our sentence structure (writing complete sentences), and also including non-fiction text features (table of contents, glossary). 

We have continued to build our reading fluency (reading accurately and with expression), and the first graders have been practicing individually and reading books to the class and each other to showcase their fluent reading :)

Reminders:

4/10 -- No school - Teacher Planning 

Week 27

It is hard to believe spring break is already here, and over!

We started the week again with our fourth grade buddies. The fourth graders wrote their buddies name in bubble letters and the buddies had a chance to decorate each other's name tag to represent their interests and personality. They turned out great and are on display on the bulletin board!

This week we also introduced our new social studies unit -- responsible pet ownership. Throughout the week, students planned and created posters for the Oregon Humane Society poster contest. The first grade theme is "Be Kind and Love Your Pet." The first graders put a lot of creativity and hard work into their posters and I will be turning them into the Humane Society next week (4/1). After working on the posters all week, we had a visitor from the Humane Society come talk to the first graders. We also had a 4-legged visitor named Ranger come to room 112, it was quite a treat!

Here are some photos from the week...