This week in 1st Grade…

Reading:

This week we read “Sam and the Bag." In this story a kitten finally joins two other cats playing in a bag, and the three of them have a great time. We reviewed sequence (the order things happen in a story so it makes sense) and practiced answering questions about the story while reading. We continued reading our story in 3 different ways! First, we read it echoing Ms. Pagano. Second, we read under our desks as a whole class for Wacky Wednesday. Third, we took turns reading pages aloud from the story. We also learned how to proofread sentences using our D. O. L. (daily oral language) sentences from our story. For grammar we are focusing on starting a sentence with a capital and ending with a period. 

Spelling:

This week we built our spelling words on our pocket chart with letter cards. The students all had a chance at some point to come up and demonstrate how to blend and spell the words to the class. We have also been practicing our spelling words using spelling cheers, which they love! We took our second spelling and reading test today and everyone did great!

Math:

We continued Topic 4 and learning different strategies for adding and subtracting. One of those strategies being drawing and using pictures to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. There will be a quiz on Topic 4 on Monday and a test on Topic 4 on Wednesday.

Science:

This week we began our unit on weather. We focused on temperature and clouds. We will continue our weather unit this coming week and focus more on clouds and seasons. This coming week we have a lot of fun activities planned, one being cloud observations! We read "Clouds" by Cassie Mayer and discussed all the different types of clouds together as a class. We also read the original "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judie Barrett and then watched the movie!

• Last week we earned all of the brownie points we needed to have a classroom party for good behavior, and chose a stuffed animal and blanket movie day. 

• We had our second fire drill today and the kids did awesome!

• Don’t forget that Friday, September 26th is Special Friends Day! 

Have a great weekend! 

Ms. Pagano :)