I am not very organized I guess! I managed to leave my camera at school on Friday and even though I spent 2 hours at school today (Sunday), I STILL managed to forget it!! I will add pictures to this post tomorrow from school. Also, our online grading system (which is where I access your email addresses) has been down all weekend. That means I have not been able to send out the weekly newsletter yet. I am adding it to our newsletter page here on the blog and I will email it to you as soon as our access is reinstated. Thank you for your understanding!
This week our focus has been on new science and math learning and our writing celebration. Students LOVE science (see our blog from earlier this week for more on that!). They are also really enjoying our new geometry unit in math. On Friday they brought home several of their recent pattern block pages. As you can see, our geometry unit is very hands on. You can support that learning at home by having them look around the house and identify shapes in everyday items. The roof is a ___________________, a chair is made up of ______________ and ______________, and the artwork on the walls has ____________. They can also create pictures or artwork of their own using shapes. Fun idea: have them design your holiday cards using shapes!
On Friday we had our first writing celebration with the other first grade classes. Authors need a chance to share their work and this celebration provided that. Students worked with partners this week to improve their writing by fixing misspelled words and adding details. Then they rewrote their stories onto clean paper, created artwork with colored pencils and markers, and gave their stories an appropriate title. I can't wait to share these wonderful works of writing with you at conferences in a few weeks. The students have already made so much growth as writers this first 7 weeks of school.
Have a great week and I'll get some pictures up ASAP!
Love,
Mrs. Heath
No comments:
Post a Comment