Hi everyone!
First grade is a busy place these days! From center work to math must dos our classroom routines are in full swing. I have to apologize that notices for our new math unit on cross number puzzles and Fundations unit 6 didn't go home during our transition to one classroom teacher. I will send home the unit 6 practice packet with the corrected assessment tomorrow. I'm so sorry about that mix up! We have started a new kindness project in our classroom and the children are very excited about it! It all started when we read a book called, Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler. The main message of the story is, "A slice of nice makes a mile of smiles." We are noticing acts of kindness throughout our day and recording them on hearts to hang them up in the classroom. You also may have received a notice home about the act of kindness you child did. Kindness and treating each other well is definitely something to be celebrated! Other things we are up to... We learned a new song and added it to our poetry binder. It's a peaceful and fun song about the moon. It's called Moon Moon Moon, by the Laurie Berkner Band. In Math we learned about cross number puzzles. We practiced our addition facts and strategies for adding efficiently. We also learned how to use the number line to figure out a missing addend. Our trick words for this week are: try, why, by and my. We are reading and writing nonfiction right now and loving it! We learned how to plan and write teaching books. We learned that we have to think about questions our readers may have about our topic. We are working on teaming up with a partner to get some new ideas about writing. We learned that good partners, listen carefully, allow their friend to speak and comment when they are finished. They are doing a great job practicing these skills. In reading we learned that nonfiction readers pay attention to key words and work hard to figure out the meaning. We don't give up on tricky key words and we use different strategies to try to word solve. In Fundations, we learned about the suffix-s and how it can make two sounds at the end of the word. In Fundations, we just started to learn new glued sounds. This week we are working with -ng glued sounds. (ang, ong, ing, ung) Next week, we will learn the -nk sounds. (ank, onk, ink unk) Hoping everyone is having a great start to the New Year! We are looking forward to our 100th day celebration on Friday, Feb. 8th. I can't quite believe it is just around the corner. Enjoy the rest of the week and I'll be in touch soon! Mary
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