Highlights from the Week of May 15, 2023
It is hard to believe that there is only about one more month left in this school year! Wow! The first graders are blooming and growing as quickly as all of the flowers and spring plants outside. Their reading, writing, and math skills have come so far over the past year and it is exciting to see where they are at now.
During reading, we are in the midst of our fiction unit and have been studying characters, their traits, personalities, feelings, and the changes they may show from the beginning to the end of a story. We have also continued to work on identifying story elements of the books we read and enjoy. Next week we will be learning about the theme or messages that many stories have.
We have been working on place value concepts in math, doing a lot of fun games and activities that have had us adding multiples of ten with 2-digit numbers. Next week we will start working with 2-digit numbers that will involve regrouping the ones. We use a wonderful tool called Base 10 Blocks that allow the students to construct the numbers as they work with them, making the math work very concrete and visual.
Students have been loving our fiction writing unit! It’s fun to see their creative energies flowing as they create characters, adventures, problems, and solutions. We have been learning about the importance of adding great details and making your characters come to life!
Other happenings this week include:
Visits from second-grade students to share poetry with us
A lesson on biomimicry involving trees and umbrellas - ask your student to explain!
Learned some new long vowel spelling patterns: -ind, -ild, -ost, -old - olt
