Upcoming Starfish of the Week
Week of March 12- Elin
Week of March 19- Brady
Week of March 26- Lauren
Mark your Calendars...
Tuesday, March 13- No School, Staff In-Service Day
Friday, March 16- Leprechaun Innovation Day- More Details Coming!
Tuesday, March 27- Mad Scientist comes to Grade 1
(A kickoff to our light and sound science unit for the month of April)
Tuesday, April 3- Grade One Field Trip to Portsmouth Music Hall
Wednesday, April 4 and 11th- Early Releases for Parent Teacher Conferences
A Sign Up Genius will be coming out to you this weekend to sign up for your child's spring conference!
Learning to write about our Opinions...
The Starfish have been really enjoying our current unit of study for Writer's Workshop. The boys and girls are choosing a thing or place where they have had a positive or negative review. We have learned in order to be persuasive in our writing pieces, we must add many reasons to support our ideas.
The kids were very excited to begin writing these opinion reviews before vacation and haven't skipped a beat since being back this week. So far movies such as Moana, The Emoji Movie, and Frozen have been popular. Some restaurants the children have enjoyed writing about include The Thirsty Moose, 110 Grill, Dunkin Donuts, and Margaritas. We have also begun reviewing places including Maine, Disney World, and New York City.
As the kids have gained confidence with their review writing, we have also been increasing our level of persuasion with some simple craft moves. The kids are learning to add Fancy words such as scrumptious and delectable to describe food items. Describing an experience as legendary, epic, or delightful rather than just saying good or great. We also have learned that the more examples and details we can include in our reviews, it becomes more believable to the reader.
We are writing up a storm and sharing as a community of writers each day! It's so much fun to see their creativity and excitement flow! As we continue, we will move into looking at Yelp and Amazon Reviews online. We will then start thinking about writing book reviews to share with others!
What's Happening during Math Workshop?
Learning about Measurement and Data
During our next math unit, Measurement and Data, we have been working on mastering the following skills listed below.
- I can measure 3 objects by length. I can compare the objects using words such as longer and shorter.
- I can understand that when I measure an object, I must choose a unit so that all the same size.
- I can understand that there can be no gaps or overlaps when I measure with a unit
- I can tell time to the hour and half hour on a digital clock
- I can tell time to the hour and half hour on an analog clock
- I can organize, represent, and interpret data up to three categories
- I can ask or answer questions about my data and graph
- I can figure out the total number of data points of my graph
- I can figure out how many data points in each category of my graph
- I can tell how many more or less in each category than in another
Here is just a list of some of the learning activities we completed this week:
- Started reading Frog and Toad series together
-Learned more about Lydia, our Starfish of the Week
- Enjoyed the Read Aloud the The Leprechaun in the Basement
- Created and interpreted bar graphs and pictographs
-Added poem and songs about Spring Holidays
-Read Fancy Nancy books to get our ideas flowing about Fancy words in our writing
- Had a class talk about the book William's Doll.
-Made leprechaun artwork
-Played Place Value Top-It
-Read with partners with our flashlights on Friday
- Mrs. Belanger read the book One. Talked about the importance of standing up for yourself
Questions to promote School Talk...
1. What have been been writing about during writer's workshop? What have you been reviewing? Can you tell about your catchy lead?
2. Who did you read with for Flashlight Friday?
3. Can you tell me about the story, The Leprechaun in the Basement? Can you tell me why the little boy wanted the leprechaun's gold coins?
4. What was the important message in the story, William's Doll?
5. Did you add a Fancy Word into your writing this week? Which one did you choose?
6. Can you tell me something you learned about Lydia, the Starfish of the Week?
7. What did you do in P.E. class this week?
8. You finished a project in art class, what did you work on?
9. Mrs. O'Connor introduced some new series to your class? Can you remember some of the books she talked about?
10. What was your job this week?
11. Who did you make cards for?
Have a great weekend!
Megan Murphy
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