Week of Jan. 9, 2023
Reminder: There is no school for students on Monday, January 16th.
A big focus for us over the past week has been learning what it means to have a growth mindset. We read many books, had some fantastic discussions and seem to have developed a great understanding of what a growth mindset is as opposed to having a fixed mindset. We realized that this is a lifelong skill to always be striving for. And our favorite mantra now seems to be “I can’t do it YET”! “Yet” is a very powerful word!
During writing, we continued to work on our “How to…” books learning how to write an introduction as well as a conclusion to our books. We also practiced writing the “Magic c” lowercase letters, trying to remember to always “start our letters at the top”.
Solving problems with multiple solutions and practicing our partners to 10 were the focuses during math this week. Students learned 3 different strategies to solve this type of problem: think of “random” combinations, do the “flipflop” equations, or try to do it in an organized way and use a “T-Chart”. Learning the partners to 10 is a very important skill for students to have so any extra support at home with this is greatly appreciated. The flashcards that we sent home, work very well for this!
Did you know that when two vowels go walking, the first one (usually) does the talking? First graders focused on vowel teams (just for reading, not for spelling) and had fun singing some songs to help them understand the concept (2 vowels go walking, and when two vowels go walking). We also learned six new power words and learned how to break off suffix endings to help us decode new words!
