December Happenings in Grade 1

 

Publishing our Non fiction books!

After choosing 1 or 2 books, the children worked with a checklist to correct errors. Next we made covers and then partners videotaped each other reading their books in seesaw.  if you have not seen your child's yet please go to their seesaw account!  All of their writing was sent home Thursday in their yellow folders. 

 

  

We read several books about holidays around the world and wrote about holidays we celebrate.

We also continued to discuss and learn about wants vs needs.

During math we are learning about penguins and will be measuring and comparing heights.

Celebrating Winter through Art

Explore time fun!

Enjoy the winter break! 

First Grade Hard at Work!

Kicking off a new writing unit on nonfiction

Going back to our writing and adding more-

this author added the highlighted sentences after our mini lesson:

  

Adding illustrations that teach:

 

Bulleted lists or illustrated lists are great ways to add more information

Some of our mentor texts and nonfiction reading choices

During Reading Workshop centers we added a new Seesaw activity each week and and have new book bins for independent reading to self.

Learning about 3D shapes with our December calendar

Mathematicians use number lines to add and subtract.

Number lines can count by ones

Number lines can also count by tens.

Ms. Betsy joined us for a lesson on self control

 

 

Learning about needs, wants & empathy

Click here to listen to this story with your child

In word study we are learning about the suffix s. The blank tile represents the suffix.

We are also learning to spell question words

Explore time fun!

Cardinals in winter