HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Writer's Workshop

On Friday, we used our writing notebooks to practice digraphs and beginning sounds. We did two interactive notebook activities. The first one was a digraph sort. The digraphs we have learned are: sh, th, ch, wh, and ck. On Friday we sorted words into groups based on the digraphs sh, ch, and th. Then we did a fun flap page where we wrote the beginning sound behind the flap. It was important that we cut out our flaps correctly and put the glue only along one edge. We did a wonderful job following directions!

Here is Eva's finished product!

Bentlee is stretching the word to listen for the first sound.

Emily finished early and was nice enough to clean up everyone's scraps! 

On Friday we also learned about how to add craft moves to our writing based on the book Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements. Miss Lloyd read the story and we looked for special touches the author adds to make his story interesting and different. We are going to try some craft moves in our own writing this week!

Guidance with Mrs. O'Hearn

On Wednesdays Mrs. O'Hearn teaches guidance, or Second Step, in our classroom. This past week we learned more about feelings. We learned that sometimes people have different feelings about the same situation, and that's okay! We played a little game to demonstrate:

First, we stood back to back and Mrs. O'Hearn read a situation. We showed on our faces how that situation would make us feel. Then...

...we turned toward the class and they had to figure out if we felt the same or different about the situation based on our faces. 

Bentlee and Thomas were both feeling happy and excited!

Jordan and Addison had different feelings about the same situation, and that's okay! We are all different and that is a good thing!

Quick Update

Here's a quick look into what we have been learning:

Literacy

-New trick words: is, his, to, into

-Editing our writing (checking for capitals and punctuation)

-Reading good fit books and stopping to ask ourselves and friends: Who are the characters and what are they doing?

Math

-Tens and ones! It's all about place value right now in first grade

-Students should be able to count by tens and then switch to counting by ones to identify a two digit number on ten frames, hands, and base ten blocks

We are also learning this poem, which we will recite as a class at the Harvest Luncheon Tuesday!

Five Little Turkeys

Five little turkeys standing at the door, 

One waddled off and then there were FOUR!

Four little turkeys sitting near a tree, 

One waddled off and then there were THREE!

Three little turkeys with nothing to do,  

One waddled off and then there were TWO!

Two little turkeys in the morning sun,  

One waddled off and then there was ONE!

One little turkey better run away,  

Because soon it will be THANKSGIVING DAY!