Author Visit, Raptors Presentation, Story Publishing, and More!
Highlights from the Week of May 22, 2023
The week of May 22nd was filled with some very special opportunities and experiences! First graders were treated to a Mystery Guest Reader (Ms. Purvee’s class enjoyed a book with Mrs. Gilbar and Mrs. Babineau’s class enjoyed a book with Ms. Darling!), an Author Visit with Diana Dunn (author of Pipsqueak’s Adventure, A True Story), and a visit with Raptors!
In addition to all of that fun and learning we continued to learn about story elements during our Reading Workshop. We started exploring the author’s message, theme, and/or lesson by reading two fantastic books, Giraffe Problems, and Penguin Problems by Jory John. We are discovering that we can learn a lot through the characters in stories!
Students chose a favorite fiction piece and have been polishing it up by making revisions, adding details, and editing to make it the best that it can be! We will be sharing our stories between our two first grade classes soon!
During Math we are continuing to work on adding two digit numbers and have begun to learn about regrouping the tens and ones when necessary. (We no longer call it “carrying” or “borrowing” but instead “regrouping”.) Students are able to t build the numbers with Base 10 Blocks and manipulate and construct the numbers in a concrete way.
Our new Word of the Week (W.O.W.) was contemplate. We have built quite a collection of fun and interesting words to add to our vocabulary and it is so fun to watch students use our new words and notice when they see them in books, or hear adults using them too!
We were so busy this week that we didn’t take a lot of pictures, but enjoy the ones wee did get!
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
Powder Run: After school on Tuesday, June 6th
Field Day: Thursday, June 15th
Last Day of School and Report Cards: Tuesday, June 20th (full day)
