Today was our first day to go to P.E. and Music. We will go every Thursday so make sure your child is wearing gym shoes or has a pair to change into on Thursday.
We also celebrated Natalie's 8th birthday. Happy Birthday, Natalie!!!!
We made an anchor chart to remind us of what we do for "Read to Self" during reading workshop: read the whole time, stay in one spot, read quietly, work on stamina, get started right away. We will work on this more tomorrow.
I also started giving out their book baggie books. These are books that are at their instructional level. They are to read these first, then they can choose books from around the room.
We continue to work with following the 4 C's: Care for yourself, care for your others, care for your school, and care for your community. Please talk to your child to help reinforce when to talk (social) and when to work.
During math we worked on 10's facts by breaking numbers apart and putting them back together. I was only able to meet with one small group of 1st graders to give them their toolboxes. I hope tomorrow I can give them to the rest of the class.
We looked at Jerry Pallotta ABC books during writing time. We discovered that he writes about things he knows (fishing, fish, ocean animals, insects, because of where he grew up) and that his ABC books are informational books (Non fiction) that we can learn quite a bit. In fact, we all learned today that there is a FISH called a dolphin. Not the dolphin that lives in the ocean that we all know about, but a fish.
Tonight they are to think about something they are an expert in...race cars, books, dogs, cats, anything and tomorrow we will try to write our first version of an ABC book.
Here's an example of a type of ABC book we have been exploring:
Click on the little eyeglasses in the upper right hand corner for a closer look.
Have a GREAT evening!
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