What we've been up to...

News from Ms. Little’s 1^st Grade Class

December 5, 2013

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, December 6^th – Scholastic Book Orders Due

·      Friday, December 6^th – Dismissal at 12:40

·      Thursday, December 12^th – Dismissal at 11:35

·      Friday, December 13^th – Dismissal at 11:35

Hello Families!

Our class has launched another part of our literacy block: read to someone! During this time, we sit elbow to elbow and knee to knee to share a book with a partner.  We enjoy this time because we get to find out what kinds of books our classmates are reading, and it gives us an opportunity to both listen to a story and read to a friend.

 

Last week, we visited our 3^rd grade buddies to listen to the story The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola. After the story, we felt inspired to paint sunsets of our own using watercolors.

 Conferences

Parent/teacher conferences are next week. We will meet to discuss your child’s progress.  A reminder was sent home with your scheduled time. If you are unable to meet at that date or time, please let me know as soon as possible and we can reschedule.

             

Enjoy the weekend! J

Ms. Little

What we've been up to...

News from Ms. Little’s 1^st Grade Class

November 21, 2013

Upcoming Events

·      Wednesday, November 27^th – Dismissal at 11:35

·      Thursday, November 28^th – Thanksgiving (no school)

·      Wednesday, December 4^th – Picture retakes

·      Friday, December 6^th – Scholastic Book Orders Due

Hello Families!

In Math, we’re continuing our work with adding and building our number sense. We have also been looking at types of graphs, discussing how the same information can be shown in different ways, and have practiced answering questions about each set of data.  We made our own bar graphs and collected data from our classmates about which color we liked best.

       

           

In Science, we are learning about living and nonliving things, and studying the life cycles of plants and animals. We planted an amaryllis bulb so that we could observe an example of a plant life cycle in our classroom.

After discussing what an amaryllis typically looks like, we drew and wrote a prediction of what our amaryllis might look like when it grows. We’ve been observing our plant closely each day to see if we notice any changes.

We have third grade buddies! We’ve paired up with Mrs. Messina’s third grade class and we are conveniently located across the hall from each other. First, we listened to the story ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey.

After the story, we made turkey glyphs with our buddy. The color of each part of our turkey represents something about us.  For example, if we colored the feathers of the turkey yellow, it meant that we like to eat corn. If we colored the feathers green, it meant that we like to eat green beans.

                                       

We can’t wait to see our third grade buddies again!

 Enjoy the weekend! J

What we've been up to...

News from Ms. Little’s 1^st Grade Class

November 7, 2013

Upcoming Events

·      Monday, November 11^th – Veterans Day (no school)

·      Friday, November 15^th – Scholastic Book Orders due

Hello Families!

In Writing Workshop, we’re focusing on remembering true events that happened to us and stretching that one event into a “small moment” story. After reading The Best Story, we talked about how the best stories come from your own heart. We made lists and drew pictures of people, places, holidays, etc. that will help us remember small moments we can write about.

In Math, we’re working on addition and continuing to build our number sense. We’ve used ten frames, manipulatives, card games and dice games to help us practice our adding skills.

        

       

The Monster March was a success! We all enjoyed dressing up, seeing our friends’ costumes, and parading around the school on Halloween.

         

We continued the Halloween theme by constructing paper pumpkins by cutting and folding ten circles.

 

Then, we made Orange Pumpkin, Orange Pumpkin books. After coloring, gluing, and putting the pages in the correct order, we read our books aloud to a friend.

Enjoy the weekend! J

Ms. Little

What we've been up to...

News from Ms. Little’s 1^st Grade Class

October 24, 2013

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, October 25^th – Dismissal at 12:40

·      Thursday, October 31^st – Monster March

·      Friday, November 1^st – Dismissal at 12:40

Hello Families!

In Literacy, we are continuing to build our independent reading stamina and practicing reading in book groups. We have also been doing word work with CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words (such as lip, rug, net, mad). In Writing Workshop, we are working on putting true stories from our lives on paper with words, pictures, and labels. Next week, we’ll start focusing on “small moment” stories.

In Math, we’re practicing determining more or less using greater than and less than symbols and ordering numbers from least to greatest/greatest to least. Counting activities, number card games and dice games have helped us practice these skills.

  

We’ve been learning all about apples in Science.  We studied two non-fiction books to find out how apples grow, the life cycle of an apple, and what each part of an apple is called.

Using Cortland, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, and McIntosh apples, we inspected and recorded the properties we observed with our five senses. 

Then, we made two types of graphs to show which type of apple we liked best.