A Fantastic Friday!

Happy Friday Fantastic First Grade Families!

I apologize for the lack of blog posts – we have been BUSY in Room 16!

In Math, we are starting to wrap up our Place Value unit. Our next unit will focus on addition and subtraction! Some things we will learn are:

Addition and subtraction vocabulary

Addition strategies

Subtraction strategies

Fact families

Unknown addends

 

Check us out during Math Centers today!

 

 

Writer’s Workshop continues to be a VERY exciting part of our day! Thank you to all who helped their child brainstorm a list of SEED STORY ideas! This week we learned that many authors work with other writer’s to help them get BETTER! Each First Grader has a writing partner who they meet with regularly. We meet with our writing partners BEFORE we write, WHILE we are writing, and even AFTER we write! When we meet with our writing partner BEFORE we write, it looks like this:

1.     First partner tells their story.

2.     Second partner pictures it and asks questions about the story.

3.     First partner tells their story again, saying MORE!

4.     Partners switch!

 

In Social Studies, we have started learning about communities. We know that a community is a place where we live, work, and play. We also know that every community has helpers. Some community helpers are: police officers, mailmen, and fire fighters. Next week we will begin learning about the three different types of communities – urban, suburban, and rural. Many of our First Grade Social Studies topics can be learned simply by talking about them, so I encourage you to discuss these topics with your child!

This afternoon we had a MYSTERY READER! Hannah's mom came to our classroom and we were SO lucky because she read TWO BOOKS! She read two Robert Munsch books -  Purple, Green, and Yellow AND Mortimer! Thank you Mrs Deeter! We really enjoyed your visit!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and GO CARDS!!!