Hi Starfish Families,
March has been another fun and busy month in our 1st grade classroom! It is truly amazing to watch these first graders each day learn strategies to become independent workers, thoughtful readers, and kind friends.
We are learning about:
- properties of matter
- Bossy R words
- adding and subtracting 10 and 20 to numbers up to 120
- how scientists write the results to a science experiment
- Learning how to write numbers in expanded form
- Understanding compound words and contractions
- building our fact power to 20
- Learned math vocabulary: Sum, addend
- how good readers respond to books using post it notes
- using punctuation to show how the charter is feeling in our writing
Some activities we did:
- made OOblick with Mrs. Gunnell
- Finishing our Mo Willems stories
- Created Solid, Liquid, and Gas posters on the computer with Mrs. O'Connor
- Used post-it notes to uncover contractions in books from our classroom library
- Created our own compound word riddles
- wrote about our Purple Fizzy Cow and Ooblick experiments in our science journals
- Practiced missing addend math problems with partners
The Girls having fun exploring OObleck in the classroom
We discovered that OObleck is both a solid and a liquid!
The Purple Fizzy Cow: This experiment showed the differences between a solid, liquid, and gas!
We are getting ready to celebrate Read Across America on Friday at SMS!
We loved sharing our 1st words and baby pictures to tie into our reading unit on Mo Willems! Thank you for your help in making this happen!
The Purple Cow Science Experiment Recording Sheet
Check our our Kindness Chain: We are spotting acts of kindness in our classroom! The kids have earned over 50 chains so far! We are hoping to make the chain go around the classroom by JUNE!
Poster we made as a class to remind us how we are working to show kindness in our classroom! I'm so proud of all of you!
Home to School Connection...
Here are some questions you can ask your child about their day.
1. What is the kindness chain? How do you get a kindness chain?
2. What is Free the Horses?
3. Can you write a missing addend math problem?
What have you learned about basketball in P.E.?
4. Can you name a solid, liquid, and gas?
5. Tell me your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
6. What is your favorite poem/song in your Poem and Song Journal?
7. Tell me how you practice spelling each day?
8. Tell me the difference between a tall letter, small letter, and falling letter?
9. What do you like to play when you have indoor recess?
10. Can you tell me how to play the 3 digits game?
Upcoming Events:
March 28: Reading Celebration Day! Please wear your Pajamas/ dress up like your favorite book character. You may also send in up to five books to trade.
April 2: Trip to the Music Hall
April 9 and 16: Early release Parent/Teacher conferences
