Friday, October 9th
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On Friday, Oct. 2nd Grades 1-6 joined on Zoom for our first monthly assembly. During the assembly we sang happy birthday to August and September birthdays, there was a message from Ms. Natasha, updates from Student Council, and we announced the Squad of the Month for the month of September.
This month G1A had four students participate in the monthly math competition. The winners for G1-6 were announced during the assembly.
Competition Raffle Winner!
Writing
Writing a Paragraph / PTC - Student Strengths and Goals
Students presented their final writing pieces to the class this week. Please check your child's Seesaw journal for a photo of their work.
Math
Addition to 10
Subtraction to 10
During Math this week students continued to practice solving addition stories. We also started our Subtraction to 10 chapter and learned that when we subtract, we start with the whole and find out how many we have left at the end.
Subtraction sentence:
whole - part = part
Students will learn that there are many ways to subtract: take away, count on, count back. This week we focused on taking away and creating number bonds to match the subtraction sentences we made.
Handwriting
Morning Work
Our class is still practicing forming letters correctly and writing our letters neatly using handwriting lines. Each day students have a new letter to try as part of their morning work. During morning meeting, we review the letter name and sound, then I model writing the letter on the board. We talk about what we notice: Is it tall? Is it short? Does it hang underneath the line? Do we form it the same way we form other letters (ex. u -> w)? Where does the letter start? Afterwards, the students share words that begin with that letter and we collect a list of words on the board.
Fire Drill
On Monday, September 28th we had our first fire drill for the school year. The students did a wonderful job listening and following directions!
Reading
Readers Build Good Reading Habits
*Partner Reading
During reading class students chose classroom books they wanted to share with each other. While reading with a partner they practiced two ways to read: taking turns (I read a page. You read a page) and echo reading (I read the page. You read the same page). Echo reading is a great way to practice fluency too! We took time to review real reading and talked about the appropriate voice level to use while reading with someone: loud enough so you can hear each other, but not so loud it disrupts another group's reading. During partner reading, students were also able to help each other when they felt "stuck" on new words. They can work together to read the tricky words and understand the story better. The students really enjoy this part of the day and it's always a joy to see them not only practicing real reading, but also listening to their conversations when they stop and talk about the stories they've chosen: funny parts, sad parts, surprising parts.
Social Studies
Why do schools have rules?
This week our class played a game without rules and the students shared how it made them feel (frustrated, confused), then we played a game with rules and discussed why it is important have rules and how rules can help us. We also looked at different pictures of children at school and talked about what the children are doing in each picture. The students shared where they saw the children being safe/not safe and fair/not fair.
Social Studies Vocabulary
Rules - Rules tell us how we should act. Rules tell us how to treat others so we can enjoy school.
Fair - We share and we take turns to be fair.
Share - Rules help us be safe so no one gets hurt.
Recess
Have a wonderful weekend!
- Ms. Allison