First Graders In Action!

Ease in work-children continue to work on literacy activities such as matching words to pictures, handwriting practice or independent reading.

Science-how can we get a garden gnome's shadow to move without moving the garden gnome?  

We moved the flashlight!  This represents the same phenomena as our "spinning sky".

You Skills with Ms. Betsy

Indoor PE due to inclement weather-fun with noodles!

Practicing writing snap words.  Here are the words that we have been reviewing this year:

the, a, and, is, his, of, as, has, to, into, for, or, we, he, she, be, me

Sentence writing!

These books inspired great conversations about using our imaginations, overcoming fear and being ok with not being perfect.  

Math-building our understanding of place value with numbers using a number line, double base ten frames and addition equations.  The visuals help them see that our teen numbers are all "10 and some more".

Exploring with math manipulatives:

Reading Workshop-Nursery Rhyme work

  

Responding to a book on tape will eventually be a station so we practiced it whole class:

Using Chromebooks and getting better at Seesaw and Lexia!

A few more owl bags were shared:

 

Our new read aloud chapter book:

Children are invited to bring in a special book from home to be shared with the class to celebrate their birthdays!