The first seven days of school have gone by so quickly. There has been lots of excitement as we reunited with our old friends from Kindergarten and made some new friends in first grade. We learned some fun ways to great one another- like butterfly handshakes and knuckle bumps.
Stamina (or building our reading muscles) has been the focus of Daily 5 lessons this week. We discussed what readers look and sound like. We also practiced reading in different places around the classroom. Today we chose our reading spots and read for 8 minutes without stopping! We also learned that readers talk about books they like. Some of us shared our favorite books with the class.
We learned about adding by combining groups this week in Math. Students have practiced combing groups to make 6, 7, 8, and 9. We also wrote addition number sentences and solved addition story problems.
We were scientists this week! We learned that scientists ask a question, research their topic, make a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and record their results. This week we answered the question "Does popcorn sink or float?" Ask your student to share their results with you!
We also practiced some calm down strategies. We have four different strategies to use- star, pretzel, drain, and balloon. The balloon strategy seems to to be the most popular way to calm down in the classroom.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all at Spotlight Night, September 1 at 6:30!
