23 Days Left of Grade One

How is there only 23 days left of school!? Where did this year go. It was another busy and exciting week here in 1PB. The kids were very excited when I told them that I get to stay and be part of the East Elementary crew next year teaching Pre-K! These next few weeks are going to fly by. The kids have a very active Friday morning we are doing yoga with our buddies this morning then will also be heading out to do our Jump Rope for Heart activities later in the morning. I sent home both information pages about our field trips. If you are able to volunteer for one or two of those field trips please email me ASAP! Only three more days of swimming please remember to send their swimwear on Monday morning!
Language: We continue working with identifying various blends in words. We are also continuing our story writing this week. The students all got different illustrations of animals and pieces of a story to complete. This was tough for some to be creative in what they wanted to write about. They wrote a rough copy of their story, had it proofread, then rewrote the story in their BEST printing. I cannot lie, we had some tears as we continue to work hard to break some of our silly habits.We have also been working on their story sequencing and reading comprehension which is coming along.

Math: We are finishing up our last math unit of 2D and 3D shapes this week, they will be writing their quiz later today for it. We had a few come back from the long weekend and all of a suddenly had cylinder and sphere mixed up so we backtracked a bit to ensure that we we confident in identifying our shapes. Next week we are going to go back to the beginning of the school year and review all that we learned to really solidify their knowledge. They will be doing various activities to improve on their math fact fluency and confidence in strategies and also work out any missing blocks that some may have forgotten.

Science: This has been my favorite science unit so far. We are looking strictly at the needs of plants this week. The students 'planted' a navy bean on Monday. We used just a soaked cotton ball in a plastic bag so that the students could see first hand the seed sprout and the roots grow. I also took a picture of your kiddos, cut their foreheads off and taped them to a cup. The students then planted grass seeds in hopes that the grass will now look like their own hair. I have set out various books about animals and plants for the children to look through when it is time to read/they are finished their work. We now have a mini garden growing in the back of our room and we love it!

Social: We continue to look and the past and present this week. We were detectives this week looking at various images and trying to figure out if that is something we see in the present, or is that something we would have seen in the past.