Spelling

Here is a list of sight words I checked everyone on today. (Don't worry, you did not have a list to study at night. We worked with these words in reading groups and writer's workshop) Almost everyone made a 100%                                         a am and as at be can do for go he I in is it

I will be sending a list home next week which will include today's words, plus all the rest of the sight words we will master by the end of the year. 

To some, the list may seem overwhelming. To others, it may seem extremely easy. I will be giving spelling checks frequently, and when your child masters the whole list, they will move on to a harder list. If they master the whole list in just a week or two, I will let them move on to a harder one. If it takes them all year to master the list, that's OK. The list contains the most frequently used words in first grade reading material. If you have any questions, just give me a call or drop me an email. Thanks!

Buddy Reading

 Our fourth grade buddies came to our room and listened to the first graders read.

The fourth graders had to be the reading coaches when the first graders got stuck on a tricky word.

Waiting and Watching

The ladies who cleaned out the butterfly garden  found an egg cluster which they said would turn out to be a Praying Mantis someday. Being the wonderful researchers that we are, we promptly went on the internet to find out about the life cycle of the Mantis. We found out the Mantis eggs hatch in the spring and there could be anywhere from about ten babies to 400! So.....if the ladies are correct and this IS a Mantis egg cluster, we will be waiting and watching for quite a while!

Praying Mantis Egg Cluster

We have finished chapters one and two of our math book and are on to chapter three. In chapter three we are reviewing subtraction and the math vocabulary for subtraction. Ask your child if they know what a number sentence is, where to find the minus sign and where to find the difference. Yesterday we did partner practice. Each set of partners used a dry erase board to model a subtraction story told by the other partner. They also had to write the number sentence and find the difference. 

Modeling Subtraction Stories

First Day of School

I'm so sorry I have been remiss about posting photos of the class. These are from the first day of school. The students were each given a baggie containing a sphere of homemade playdough. Each sphere had a drop of food coloring inside, so they had to squeeze the playdough inside the baggie many times to find out what color it was. After the color was all mixed in they were allowed to take the playdough out and make some things. It was really fun!!