This Week

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families!

With Winter Break just around the corner, we have lots of awesome stuff going on this week!

Spelling - Due to our short week, we will NOT have new spelling words. We will take this time to assess our Snap Word skills.

Writer's Workshop - This week we are wrapping up our nonfiction unit. We have all chosen our favorite nonfiction book and are working to "fancy it up!" We will edit, revise, and add a front cover so it's ready for our First Grade Writing Celebration on Wednesday afternoon.  When we come back from Winter Break we will start our next writing unit - opinion writing! 

Math - We continue to develop the relationship between addition and subtraction.

THURSDAY - On Thursday we will have our school wide assembly AND Winter Party. Don't forget to use the SignUpGenius if you are interested in bringing anything in! Our party will be from 2:00-3:00PM in our classroom. Hope to see you there!

Have a great night!

An Overdue Update!

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families!

Can you believe it's already December 7?! I sure can't! We've been super busy in Room 21 so read on to find out what we've been up to!

Reading - We've been focusing our learning on nonfiction books. We know that nonfiction means REAL and TRUE so nonfiction books include information that teaches us about a topic. We've been getting super smart about nonfiction topics like animals, sports, and weather!

Writer's Workshop - Just like we've been READING nonfiction books, we've been WRITING nonfiction books! We have discovered we are all experts about different topics - dogs, Legos, and volcanoes just to name a few! We have learned lots of different ways to teach our reader about our various topics:

We've even started writing CHAPTER BOOKS since we have so much information to share! Ask your kiddo what their nonfiction chapter book is about and to name a few of their chapters.

Math - Just like we learned ADDITION strategies to help us solve addition, we've been learning SUBTRACTION strategies to help us solve subtraction. As we learn these strategies we are developing an understanding that addition and subtraction are related. If I know 2+2=4, then I know 4-2=2! 

Don't forget this Wednesday, December 9 is an Early Release day! If your kiddos afternoon transportation will be different than normal, please send a note with them to school.