First grade families, Sorry for the delayed response with the blog, the student have been busy conferencing with Miss Soa and I over their persuasive letters to Dr. Troy and Dr. Amy, and I have been busy putting finishing touches on the report cards that go out tomorrow. Last week we studied thunder, lightning and rainbows. We turned out the lights and made a thunder storm in our classroom by snapping, clapping, slapping our knees, and stomping our feet. We also made lightning through static electricity using a balloon and a spoon. This was all very exciting! This week we have started to work in collaborative groups to make a poster about a type of extreme weather (blizzards, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes). Students have been placed in groups and given different roles. It is amazing for me to see how well first grade students can research. They are using their skills that we used in our non-fiction unit to navigate tables of contents, indexes, and glossaries to find the necessary information that they need. They will be learning presentation skills this week and presenting their posters to the class. Last week we went through the entire writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) using our opinion transitions and persuasive techniques to write a letter to the principal or director about changes we want made to the school. Some of these included; a school jet for long distance field trips, another classroom for quiet learning, being allowed to eat sweets and drink soda at school, and a pizza party everyday. We learned how to write a letter and address an envelope. We sent them to administration and are patiently waiting for their replies. I will post your child's letter to their portfolios this week. This week we are delving back into phonics and word study looking at long and short vowels once again. This is a first grade mastery skill. Yesterday, we explored e controlled vowels (make, broke, ride, rude) through playing a board game where students had to read their way through the board as they moved. Today we worked on long e and short e words by playing dominoes. In math we have been working with greater than, less than and equal to operation symbols. We have also been exploring 2digit addition and place value by using base 10 blocks. This week we will be working on finding the difference between two numbers using a variety of methods.
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