First Grade News : Week 6 ALREADY!

We are already on week six of first grade! Time flies when you're having fun! Week six included SO much learning.

During Guidance, students learned with Mrs. O'Hearn that it's okay to be different and we should celebrate our differences. Mrs. O'Hearn shared a story about how it's great to be different and then students wrote and illustrated something that makes them different.

"It's okay to have short hair."

"It's okay to be missing a bunch of teeth."

"It's okay to like mermaids."

Here the class was sharing their differences before they went to write them.

In math students worked on teen numbers. After just six weeks students can identify, write, and order teen numbers. They know that teen numbers are made up of a ten and some more and that they can show them with their math hands, cubes, and ten frames.This week students learned how to put them in order and we started talking about one more, one less. Students have been working hard during math centers. We started ST Math this week, which is an iPad math program we use K-6. Students have also been playing the math games tic-tac-teen and tens pyramid.

This was our math quiz-students did great!

This quiz gives you a better idea of what students should be able to do with teen numbers.

In our classroom we call reading the Daily 5 because we have five literacy choices: read to self, work on writing, read to someone, word work, and listen to reading. So far we have learned about and practiced read to self, work on writing, and read to someone (new this week!) Students worked so hard to build their reading stamina and this week we made it to 12 and half minutes! The students were so excited and proud, as they should be!