The first graders have been working for weeks and weeks on unit 1 of our new writing program.  Our first unit was personal narratives.  I am beyond excited at how amazing these pieces of writing came out!  The students went through all of these steps - research, planning, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.  They have now all completed their first published book!  All of their stories are recorded in their journal on SeeSaw.  Take some time to listen to your child's story!  They are amazing!

Emily - Kelly Lake

Tommy - Dogs

Henry - Double Skiing

Adalynn- Seeing the First Rainbow

Nora - The Dogs Wrestling

Cash - Bow and Arrow

Grant - Trick or Treating

Cameron - Night at Titletown

Wyatt - The Big Drop

Serenity - Halloween

Chailoh - Moving

Group Photo of Stories - Minus Henry who is on vacation

Merry Christmas!

 Spelling - We will not have a spelling list this week.

Phonics - We continue to learn about blends.  This week we added a combination of digraphs and blends - to make a digraph blend!  Here is an example of a digraph blend - 

The letter n is a consonant and the ch is a digraph.  When they are together they form a digraph blend.

We also learned three more r-controlled vowels (bossy r).  We know the letter/keyword/sound for all of them.

Our new trick words are number, over, and her.  We worked on sentence dictation with our new words.

Writing -Half of the class is finished with their personal narratives.  The students who aren't finished will be finishing them up this week.  If your child is finished, they recorded themselves reading their stories on SeeSaw.  These personal narratives are turning out AMAZING!  I am so proud of the hard work that was put into these pieces!  We also work out of our December journals.  Here are a few -

Math - We continued working on adding two 2-digit numbers together.  We went "shopping" again to make receipts.  This time the class chose restaurants.  :)  We learned about place value (ones and tens) by using base 10 blocks.  We have been practicing adding our 2-digit numbers - knowing that we start in the ones place and then move to the tens place.  We have started learning a new set of math facts - doubles plus one facts.  We know all the doubles.  So - we can figure out doubles plus one.  For example, 7+7=14, so 7+8 =15.  

Religion - We continue to read a Bible story every day.  Each day we add a piece to our Jesse Tree.  We are continuing to learn about obedience from our Virtues and Values cards.  Our Promise Paper this week was about Mary saying yes when the Angel Gabriel came to her.

Our Jesse Tree - Only 2 more stories to go!

Science - We have started our Einstein Kit - solids and liquids.  Our first lesson was investigating 2 solids - the blue spoon and the silver ball.  We used our eyes, ears, nose, and hands to observe.  (Never our mouth in science class!)  Lesson 2 was getting 20 solids to investigate!  We will be sorting our solids by different categories.  (color and shape)

We celebrated Jack's birthday on December 18th

Recess Fun

A few elf pictures

Merry Christmas!  Enjoy the blessings of your family over this vacation!