One Last Look!

The past weeks have been soooo busy both professionally and personally. In addition to winding down the school year and getting in as much learning as possible with the students, my daughter went to prom and graduated high school. I also celebrated my brother's 50th birthday and hosted a bridal shower for my niece who is getting married.

My graduate, Danielle!

Below is my just a last look of some of the things we have been doing over the last couple of weeks of first grade.

Our last days working collaboratively 

on projects or playing a game!

Our students participating in ACES! 

(All Children Exercise Simultaneously)

We visited 2nd grade classrooms.

We got to ask current second graders 

what it like to be in second grade!

Field Day!

Always one of the biggest highlights of the year!

I have loved every minute with these 1st graders.

I will miss all of them next year!

Have a wonderful summer!

This Week in Room 5!
May 16th - May 20th

End of the year MAP testing is this week. Please make sure that your child has their iPad every day with a full charge. 

Pancake Breakfast

Just a reminder that Friday is the Annual PTO Pancake Breakfast. Breakfast will be served from 7:00 until 8:30 by the PTO volunteers and Kipling teachers. Come bring the whole family and have pancakes, sausage, donuts, juice fruit and more.

ELA

Grammar

Over the last few weeks of school we will continuously review all the skills we have worked on throughout the year.

Reading

This week we will read two more versions of Cinderella. One is called Cendrillon a Caribbean Cinderella. The other is Adelita a Mexican Cinderella story. We will continue to compare theses versions with all the previous versions we have read.

Math

This week in math we will continue to focus on. . . 

• Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares.
• describe the shares using the words halves, fourths and quarters.

We will also review time to the hour anf half hour as well as begin looking at time to the quarter hour.

Science

We will continue looking at patterns in the sky. This week we will continue focusing on the moon and its different stages.

Leader in Me

Students choose a Cinderella character we have read about and identify two habits that Cinderella uses.

Specials Schedule

Monday - Day 3 - PE and Spanish 

Tuesday - Day 4 - LMC - Remember your books

Wednesday - Day 5 - Art and Music

Thursday - Day 1 - PE and Spanish

Friday - Day 2 - Music and Art

Last Week

Grammar Game

Students had fun playing a  "Bossy R" game in small groups.

 

Fractions, Fractions, Fractions

We did a lot with fractions this week. Students learned that a fraction is an equal part of a whole. They learned about the numerator and denominator. We learned how to read a fraction and what the fraction means. Students had a lot of fun using different methods to understand fractions. Take a look below.

Pizza Fractions

Using Geoboards to Partition Fractions

Ice Cream Fractions

Star Leader of the Week

Our Star Leader did a great job sharing his Mystery Bag, reading a story, and showing us what talent he has.

What a monkey!

Mystery Reader

Mrs. Bentley came and read a great story to the class. As always, our students were engaged audience.

Have a great week!