This week in 1st Grade…

Reading:

This week we read “Ants." In this nonfiction story there are real pictures of ants and their homes. We reviewed some pre-reading strategies and practiced answering questions about the story after reading. We continued reading our story in 4 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. Last, we independently read the story at our desks. We are still learning how to proofread sentences using our D. O. L. (daily oral language) sentences from our story. For grammar we are focusing on word order. The students have been practicing how to sort mixed up words into the correct order to make a complete sentence.

Spelling:

This week we continued to build 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 test today and everyone did well. Thank you for practicing them with them at home!

Math:

This week we had our Topic 4 quiz on Monday and our Topic 4 test on Wednesday.

We began Topic 5 Thursday, and are learning how to use doubles to help us solve addition problems.

Science:

This week we continued our unit on Weather and began our Seasons unit. We focused on clouds, the 4 seasons, and Johnny Appleseed. We will continue working on more seasonal activities, and the students are so excited to show you all they’ve been working on.

• This week we earned 5 brownie points for behaving so well and working hard in class. 

• We had our lockdown drill with the police on Wednesday and the kids did awesome! They were very patient considering it was a longer drill. 

• This Friday was Special Friends Day! I really enjoyed meeting everyone and doing the Cloudette activity with you. The students were so happy that their special friends came!

Have a great weekend! 

Ms. Pagano :)