First Week of School

Last week we spent quite a bit of time talking about good student behaviors. These are the types of behaviors that are going to help ourselves and our classmates achieve success. We focused on how to treat others with respect. We will work on our Leader-in-Me goals again this year. Monday we will review what it means to be proactive.

Moose

Today we read Moose! by Robert Munsch. It is a very funny story. We used the book to practice describing the events in a story. We also worked on blends and sight words. We learned a new strategy in math- making a 10. We used double ten frames to add numbers like 8+6 and 9+7 by first making a 10. We will practice this more tomorrow. Finally, we learned about the life cycle of a plant and acted this out by using our life cycle books. These should have come home today. You can practice reading this tonight!

Homework- Read your just right book and practice your sight words.

Doubles Facts

Today we explored using our doubles facts +/- 1 to solve word problems. We also reviewed telling time to the hour. We brainstormed problems that might happen in a story and then practiced telling a story with a character, setting, problem and solution. We observed our seeds and discovered that nothing is growing yet. We also learned about the life cycle of a plant.

Homework- Read your just right book. Complete the home link.

Plants

Today we learned how to describe a book using details. We practiced this with a simple short story about Ashley who couldn't sleep. We will continue to use this skill all week. We practiced reading and writing words with blends using our decodable reader Ted and Fran. We learned about a doubles plus one strategy in math to help us add more fluently. Finally, we planted our mystery seeds. We will watch them grow and record our observations over the next few weeks.

Homework- Read Ted and Fran and add it to your book box. Practice your spelling words.