Week of October 24th:
This has been a busy week with district testing for math and Red Ribbon Week. We also had our October celebration day today and Luis' mom brought in cupcakes for the class! His birthday was earlier this month on the 6th and Jayden's was on the 22nd. Our PBIS social skill of the week was "accepting no for an answer".The students have learned that includes looking at the person speaking, saying "okay", staying calm, and asking questions later if you disagree. Last week, we finished our unit 3 test in math on the topic of comparing lengths. This week, we began unit 4: exploring quantities to 99. We got to practice counting, writing, and exploring quantities through 99 by ones by thinking about and investigating a bake sale. It was fun to think about counting cookies when we have baked with our families. Next week, we will work on being more fluent in these skills. In writing, we are working on comparing. We read and discussed the book Stellaluna and compared two animals from the book:bats and birds. We will continue to extend this investigation next week. In comprehension, we investigated an informative article called,"Chicks and Chickens". We were able to keep with the theme of comparing by creating a double bubble map to compare adult chickens (hens and roosters) to baby chicks. We also picked out interesting or unknown vocabulary from the text. During enrichment time (art), we began learning about Dia de los Muertos. With that information, we began creating our own sugar skull masks (on paper, of course). We also studied location and mapping in social studies. This included looking at Google Map sand discussing the map of our school and the area around the school. In science, we continued investigating the concepts of transparent, translucent, and opaque. What a busy week! Take a deep breath and have a relaxing weekend! P.S. Parent/conference meeting notices will be going home next week.
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Week of October 10th:
I hope all students had a relaxing 2 days off this week! Our regular homework packets will resume next week. In Language Arts this week, we continued investigating the informational article titled, How Are Animals Like and Not Like Their Parents?" We were able to use our brace map that we created last week (showing details and main idea) to generate questions about the text on a detail/question chart. We also had to compare the different animals described in the text. In grammar, we continued to work on using periods, question marks, and exclamation points appropriately. We finished our punctuation foldables and were able to sort and classify sentences into those three categories. In addition we always practice our fluency routines weekly: phoneme segmentation, sound spelling and word blending, word recognition, and reading fluency using the passages given to us in our weekly homework. In math, we continued to work on the concept of indirect comparisons of object attributes. We need to be able to organize, represent, and interpret data as demonstrated by classifying objects and counting on to add and subtract. The skill we specifically worked on this week was comparing lengths of objects directly and indirectly to understand that if object A is longer than object B, and object B is longer than object C, then object A is longer than object C. We also began a reader's theater on Christopher Columbus and why Monday was a significant holiday in history. Next week, 1st grade will be creating a dedication video for the Desert Hot Springs Police Department, along with the rest of the school. In preparation for filming, we created props and practiced our lines for the video. We also wrote letters and drew pictures describing the job of a police officer and had discussion about what they do for our community. The PBIS Social Skill of the week was "Participating in Activities". This means that we appropriately request to be part of an activity, cooperate with others in the group, such as allowing others to take their turns, use a pleasant voice when talking to others, and remember to accept losing or winning appropriately. Have a great weekend! Miss Joiner learningwithmissjoiner.weebly.com Room 5 welcomes you to October! Happy Fall-idays!
Week of October 3rd: In math this week, we started our new unit on Ordering and Comparing Lengths. We have compared length directly while understanding the importance of aligning endpoints, compared lengths of objects, and just started (but have not yet finished)understanding indirect comparisons of object attributes (AKA.using length with ideas that are not objects). In grammar, we have been working on punctuation: using periods, question marks, and exclamation points. In comprehension, we began studying informational texts. This week, we focused on an article called, "How Are Animals Like and Not Like Their Parents?". We were able to study important vocabulary from the article and use a brace map to find out the main idea of the text by investigating important details. The PBIS Social Skill of the week is how to deal with frustration.We must identify feelings of frustrations as they arise, determine the source of these feelings, breathe deeply and relax when frustrations arise, discuss frustrations with a caring adult or peer,and find alternative activities that promote feelings of success. The students know this process as the steps to problem solving: 1)Think about it. 2) Choose a plan. 3) Carry out your plan. 4) Check your answer. Lastly, this is a reminder that there will be no school for students on Monday and Tuesday due to teacher inservice work days.There will also not be a homework packet due next week because of the short week. Instead, letters will be sent home about DreamBox and Lexia to give students the opportunity to practice their computer programs at home. Keep reading and enjoy the time with family! |
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