Building Our Stamina

It has been another amazing week in first grade!

We've focused on building our stamina in Daily 5. We can now Read to Self and Work on Writing for 13 minutes at a time! This meant we got to start making the choice of which one we would like to work on for each rotation. Next week we will add another component into our Daily 5 routine- Word Work. This will be a way for us to practice our phonetic skills and spelling words.

In Writers' Workshop we've been working on writing pattern books. We practiced writing pattern books that have an two sentence repeating pattern. We also focused on writing both fiction and non-fiction pattern books. We will wrap up our unit on pattern books next week and begin writing narrative stories.

We celebrated what we know about addition this week. We know that we can use two parts to make a while. We can find the parts for 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. We began to work on subtraction skills this week. We worked on finding the missing parts of those same numbers.

On Wonder Wednesday, we learned about birds. We used padlet to write what already knew about birds before reading our National Geographic article. Padlet allowed us to share our ideas with Mrs. Mallen's classroom from our own Chromebooks. Padlet will allow us to collaborate and share ideas easily with others.  You can view our thinking here: http://padlet.com/MrsBertz/birds

We continued to work on the Chromebook Challenge. We know how to bookmark a site. Your child should have these three things bookmarked- MLE webpage, Mrs. Bertz's webpage, and Lexia. Yes, Lexia is completely set up for student usage! All new students have been added and I can look at student progress! Hooray! We also downloaded an app- Matific. It will help reinforce the math skills we are learning in class.

Bengal Book buddies and spelling homework will come home on Tuesday!

Thanks to everyone who came to Spotlight Night. If you could not make it, I sent some paperwork with your child. You can also view the presentation on my webpage. https://sites.google.com/a/lsr7.net/bertz/

Enjoy the three day weekend!