Happy Friday! We had a great week in our classroom other than being forced to have indoor recess multiple days in a row. 😆 The students actually love it at times because they get to play "Four Corners." We are ready for some sunshine and the playground! The highlight of the week was definitely going to CSD's high school black box and watching the middle school dance performance of "The Greatest Showman." They did an amazing job!
February 26th Discovery Place Field Trip: Please have your child at school by 8:00 AM. The bus will be leaving CSD at 8:15 AM. Chaperones...I will email you separately but you will meet us at Discovery Place with your child at 8:45/8:50 AM. We will not have time for a morning snack so please feed your child a large, protein filled breakfast to keep them full until lunch. Please pack a normal lunch in their lunchbox and make sure to send a water bottle (it would be great if the water bottle could fit inside the lunchbox so it doesn't get lost). We will be eating at Discovery Place at some point between 10:30-12:30.
February 28th Camping Day: Because we are studying Kevin Henkes and one of his books Bailey Goes Camping, we are having our own camping day! Students can wear their pajamas and bring a flashlight for reading inside of the tents. We need some parents to send in some tents for us to borrow and it would be amazing if those parents could also come set up and break down their tent (so that it get's properly assembled and we don't mess it up). We will do fun camping activities all day, we will have hotdogs for lunch, and we will make s'mores! All of these items needed will be on a Sign Up Genius sent out.
March 4th Passion Project Materials Due: Please make sure to read my email I sent out Thursday morning about the Passion Project. Your child needs to pick their topic within the next few days so that you can begin collecting books, internet articles, magazines, scrapbook paper, stickers, etc. Once you begin to collect books and articles, please begin reading them with your child and highlight any important facts (if in an internet article). This will help your child tremendously when they begin the writing process of their project.
Math:
We had two new centers added into math workshop that involved shapes and greater than/less than. Students worked together with tangrams to recreate different pictures. We are reviewing 2D shapes before we move into 3D shapes. Students also played a game where they rolled two dice (if they rolled a 6 and a 4 their number would be 64) and their partner then rolled two dice and they had to pick which sign (< > =) would make the math sentence correct. Next week we will be working on the concept of ten more/ten less using the hundreds chart. Our goal is that they can add ten or subtract ten from any number between 1-150 by the end of first grade.
Literacy:
We moved onto a new concept during our writer's workshop that is called "authors as mentors." We discussed some of our favorite authors that are successful at writing fun, interesting, exciting stories that we get wrapped up into. We decided that we would choose Mo Willems as our "mentor" to study and write a story similar to. We discussed all of the things that Willems does that makes him a great author...funny jokes, interesting characters, punctuation, speech bubbles, a good storyline. All students then wrote their own Elephant and Piggie book styled just Mo Willems.
Thematic:
We studied Ezra Jack Keats this week during our "Author in Me" unit of study. Some of the books we read are Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, and Peter's Chair. Many of Keats' books take place in a city so we reviewed our cardinal directions and students had to follow specific steps to create their own city. They enjoyed this activity! Students also used scrapbook paper to create their own scene from the book Peter's Chair. Monday we will get to make fake snow as we study the book Snowy Day. We will then move onto Kevin Henkes.
Love,
Mrs. James
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