Room 5 at Glance - Week of 9-29 to 10-2

Word Wall Words

• take 
• every 
• old
• by 
• after

Phonics Focus

• vowel - short u
• consonant review - /k/ /ck/ /r/ /b/ /c/ /g/
• simple compound words
• l blends - sl, bl, pl, fl, gl, cl

Grammar

• nouns - person, place or thing
• punctuation - .  ?  !
• capitals only at the beginning of a sentence

Handwriting

Work on basement letters. These are letters that go below the baseline like: g, j, p, q, y.

ELA

Read the stories "Owen and Mazee", "Friends" and  "Hello baby."

With these stories students will:

• ask and answer questions about the stories. 
• Identify main topic and key details.
• write at least two sentences properly sequenced.

Math

In math we will continue working on:

• graphing data and answering questions. 
• looking at numbers and patterns.
• relate counting to addition and subtraction by counting on and back.

Leader in Me (LIM)

We will continue our learning about Habit 3 - Put First Things First and we will begin to focus on Habit 4 - Think Win Win.

Specials Schedule for the Week

Monday 9-28  - Day 5 - Art and Music

Tuesday 9-29 - Day 1 - PE and Spanish

Wednesday 9-30- Day 2 - Music and Art

Thursday - Day 3  - PE and Spanish

Friday - Day 4 - Library

Mystery Reader

Today was our first parent Mystery Reader. Mrs. Santelik, Joseph's mom started off our day by reading "If you Give a Moose a Muffin." Students enjoyed the story and Joseph was definitely surprised to see mom in his classroom.

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Students have been working all week on punctuation. They have learned about declarative (.), interrogative (?), and Exclamatory (!) sentences. Students have have acted out these punctuation marks and sorted sentences with these punctuation marks. Today students listened to the Mo Wilems story, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" This story is an excellent way for students to identify all three kinds of punctuation and discuss why the author chose to write the way she did. As a follow up to the story, students created their own pigeons and wrote talk bubbles to express what they wanted their pigeon to say using the different punctuation marks. Students loved this extension! First grade looks as if a family of pigeons are nesting in our hallway!

Just a reminder that next week, 

Monday will be Day 5 on our specials schedule.

See Saw - Our Digital Portfolio

Today students used a new app called See Saw. See Saw is a digital portfolio where students will compile artifacts to show their learning throughout first grade. To do this, students will be accessing the different features of this app to take pictures, upload photos, add audio, create text, and create drawings. Look below at our students' first experience using this new app.

Punctuation

We have been working on the three different types of sentences and the punctuation used for each. Students have learned about declarative (statements), interrogative (questions), and exclamatory (statements with emotion) sentences. The students are actually using this advanced vocabulary to identify and explain these different types of sentences. 

Students teaching each other the different types of sentences.

Students practicing hand motions for the different types of punctuation.

Students reading and identifying the correct punctuation for sentences.

Our First Mystery Reader

Mr. McConnell came into our class last week to be our first Mystery Reader of the year. He read the story "Creepy Carrots." It was very funny. I was so impressed how after only a couple of weeks, the students could identify how the story connected to our first two Leader in Me habits: Be Proactive and Begin With the End in Mind.

Sequencing Events

Students learned about the importance of sequencing events in a story. They also made connections that sequencing matters in other events such as getting ready for school and making a recipe. Students enjoyed working in small groups or with a partner to sequence events from the story we read this week called "Molly Lou Melon."

Math and Measuring

Students have been working on measuring and comparing lengths.

Here students were using non standard forms of measurement: cubes, popsicle sticks and links to measure and compare how long they are.