We have had another amazing week in first grade! We came back Tuesday refreshed and ready to learn!
We continued to work on the short a sound as we practiced our spelling words. We had our first spelling test on Friday!
We added a third rotation to Daily 5- Word Work. During this rotation we can do Lexia or practice our spelling words in different ways. This week we learned how to rainbow write our spelling words. Now we can choose the order we do Read to Self, Work on Writing or Word Work. We love our choices! Next week we will add Read to Someone as our fourth rotation.
We learned a fix up strategy to put in our reader's toolbox when we come across a word we don't know. The first is: Look at the picture. Picture books have lots of helpful clues to words we may not know. We try a word that would make sense with the picture and then check to see if the word we say matches the sounds in the word. we will continue to add strategies to our reader's toolbox next week!
We wrapped up writing pattern books this week. We read a very funny book, Who Hops and many of us tried to make similar pattern books. We celebrated and shared our pattern books during our Author Celebration on Friday.
In Math we practiced writing and solving subtraction sentences. We solved take away and comparing problems.We will solve different types of subtraction story problems through next week.
We also discussed staying safe online as part of the Chromebook Challenge. We discussed going to the websites that adults tell us are okay and expect us to be on. We discussed letting an adult know if we come across something that we think is inappropriate or makes us feel uncomfortable. We will continue to learn about digital citizenship as we begin blogging in the next few weeks.
If you are looking for learning activities on the Chromebook, guide your student to Google classroom. The first grade teachers put websites and activities that we use in class on these pages. Mr. Burke showed us a fun koala racing game we can play!
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