Hello all and happy Friday! I hope you all had a great week. We had a fun, exciting, and busy week with our field trip to Discovery Place and our "Bailey Goes Camping" camping day. We also had a visit from Davidson Dentistry on Wednesday to talk about the importance of dental health and taking care of your teeth. It is hard to believe we only have three more months of school left. 😆 Next week we begin our Artist in Me thematic unit and we will also begin working on our Passion Projects!
March 4th: Passion Project materials due...please refer back to the email I sent on Feb. 21st to see what needs to be collected and sent in for this project.
March 12th: Field trip to the Laurel's Nursing Home
March 14th and 15th: No school...teacher workdays
April 11th 10:00 AM: Artist in Me Gallery Crawl
Math:
We are finishing up our work on ten more/ten less and composing/distinguishing shapes. We will continue to spiral review back to these concepts but will soon be moving into telling time! The kids love learning about time because they are able to use it in their daily life. In first grade, they learn time to the hour and half hour. We talk about the cyclical nature of the clock and we count all of the minutes and see how we can group them into 5's. I also label the clock in our room so that they can easily count the minutes and learn to tell time.
Literacy:
Students completed their normal guided reading groups and word sorts this week and then we had our writer's workshop during our camping day. I am going to reassess all of the students on their "spelling inventory" assessment that I use to show me what developmental spelling stage they are in. Their word sort group may shift some depending on this assessment and if they have made any more progress. We will soon be working on our Passion Projects during literacy time so word sorts may become more sporadic. Guided reading groups will stay consistent. Passion Projects are a great way to work on all of the different parts of literacy at once (decoding, comprehension, summarizing, writing, editing, revising, etc. This is essentially a research project that is differentiated to their level.
Thematic:
This week we wrapped up our Author in Me unit by studying Kevin Henkes. He is the author of several popular children's books such as Chrysanthemum, Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, Wemberly Worried, Owen, and Bailey Goes Camping. After reading Wemberly Worried, students got to write about their own worries that they have in life and they created an art piece to go with it. We also studied our names after reading the book Chrysanthemum and examined the vowels in our name, syllables, letters, etc. We had a full day of camping activities that included reading in tents, writing in tents, playing camping BINGO, making binoculars and going on a nature scavenger hunt, and making s'mores!
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. James
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