Holy Cross - First Grade

Reading - We are continuing to learn about daily 5. Last week we worked on the next three components - read to someone, work on writing, and word work. Each day we learned about the expectations for each component. Then we practiced - we are building our stamina! This week we will be learning about the last component - listen to reading. Then we will be practicing all five components each day during reading. It is very important to get this routine down correctly! It sets the tone for reading instruction for the whole school year! Next week I will start doing running records during daily 5 time. Once all running records are complete, we can start daily 5 and reading groups! :)

Read to Someone

Writing - This one is a squiggle

Writing - Another squiggle

Writing - Hand Art

Word Work

Religion - We worked on a few more pages in our Religion book. Our first chapter is about Jesus, our friend. We read a story out of our Children's Bible - In the Beginning. It is the story of creation. This week we will be working on waterfall books - illustrating the 7 days.

Phonics - We continued to work on letters - the letter, the keyword, and the sound. We had an assessment where I would say a sound and the students had to write which letter makes that sound. We also had an assessment on writing all of the lower case letters. Please practice writing the letters with your students when you have some free time. Many students know what the letters are, but they are not writing their letters in the correct places yet. We will continue to work on this at school as well. We have also started tapping out c-v-c words, making c-v-c words on our letter board, and we have started writing sentences using c-v-c words and trick words. (c-v-c = consonant-vowel-consonant)

Writing - We did our first writing assignment. The students had to pick which bug they liked the best, draw a picture of it, and write a sentence about it. We will be following this pattern for a little while. We will be working on using capital and lower case letters in the correct places, using good spacing, and using punctuation.

Science - We are starting our first Einstein kit - Weather! We are just starting out. So far we made a graph of our favorite weather and talked about different kinds of weather.

Math - In math we have been reviewing how to write the numbers. We started working on story problems - some, some more, and some went away stories. (adding and subtracting) We have continued learning about squares, rectangles, and circles. We learned about numbers and ordinal numbers, as well as the position words last and middle. We also discussed greater and less, more and fewer. We began working in a few math centers.

Snack - Please send a snack to school with your child every day. I did buy some snacks for our class for when students forget to bring their snack. There are a few students who have been eating these snacks every day instead of bringing their own. Please remember to send a snack with your child. :)

Our door - It turned out so cute! Here are some pictures of our terrific ten - the center of the flower!