What we've been up to...

News from Mrs. Carli’s 1^st Grade Class

March 24, 2016

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, March 25^th – No School (Good Friday)

·      Thursday, April 7^th – Dismissal at 11:45 (conferences)

·      Friday, April 8^th – Dismissal at 11:45 (conferences)

·      Friday, April 15^th  - Scholastic Book Orders due

·      April 18^th – April 22^nd – No School (April vacation)

Hello Families!

In Writer’s Workshop, we are wrapping up our Kevin Henkes author study. We are still working on using his strategies in our own writing and hope to publish our stories soon.  Last week, we voted for our favorite story.  Julius, the Baby of the World was the most popular!  Next, we plan to write letters to Kevin Henkes to tell him how much we enjoy his books.

In Science, we are continuing to observe our amaryllis plant. It has four tall leaves but no flowers yet.  We are also noticing that the bulbs we planted in the courtyard last fall are beginning to sprout.  We have been taking our science notebooks outside to record our observations and are wondering what they are going to look like when they bloom.

In Phonics, we are working on reading and writing words with consonant blends. Blends can be found in words with two consonants together such as slip, lamp, or frog.  We are also continuing to practice our trick words daily.  Last week, we all tried to read the whole rainbow of trick words in order to reach the pot of gold. 

Our class is continuing to work on social skills with Mrs. Boardman.  We have been working on being “in the group” during whole class learning activities. When you’re “in the group” you are sitting calmly and safely, doing whole body listening (eyes on the speaker, thinking about what they’re saying, hands in lap), one person is talking at a time, you are following directions as they are being given, and you’re staying on the same topic of conversation. Our class completed a drawing activity where each person decided on one item to add to the picture. In order to have a similar picture at the end of the activity, each person must have been “in the group” the whole time.

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Carli

What we've been up to...

News from Mrs. Carli’s 1^st Grade Class

March 3, 2016

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, March 4^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 11^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 18^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 18^th – Scholastic Book Orders due

·      Friday, March 25^th – No School (Good Friday)

Hello Families!

In Writer’s Workshop, we have been studying authors as mentors. We have been listening to stories by Kevin Henkes, looking closely at how he writes and illustrates, discussing the topics he writes about, and practicing using his strategies in our own small moment writing.

In Science, we are continuing our yearlong study of different types of plants and their life cycles. We observed two amaryllis bulbs, planted them in pots in our classroom, and drew predictions of what we think they will look like when they bloom.  One of the plants has started to grow while the other has not.  As scientists, we wonder why is this happening? We are also wondering if our predictions of shape, size, and color of the plant will be correct.

In Phonics, we are practicing how to read and write words with new glued sounds:   -ang, -ing, -ong, –ung, -ank, -ink, -onk, and –unk.  We went on a word hunt in our classroom to find and sort into lists of words with glued sounds and words without glued sounds.

We celebrated the 100^th day of school on Friday, February 12^th by sharing our special 100 piece snack or lunch and by making 100 piece mosaics in Math.

Enjoy the weekend! 

Mrs. Carli