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Poetry - Poetry Slam Event in March
At the beginning of March, UST students will participate in our poetry week! Our next Science unit focuses on animals, so students will follow the writing process to publish animal acrostic poems for the poetry event. More information about poetry week will be sent home soon.
This week a poet visited our classroom to introduce G1A students to what poetry is and how to write an acrostic poem. Students read different books about animals and practiced writing their first acrostic poems.
This week our weekly words focused on long e. Students learned the "hunks & chunks" ee and ea.
EE: feet, street, three, green, peek, see, tree
EA: dream, tea, heat, meat, read, bean
E: he, me, we, she, be
During Reading this week we continued our unit about characters.
Students practiced getting to know the characters by thinking about how they change during the story. We can think about what they are doing at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story.
"In the beginning _____________. In the end _______________."
Our class was introduced to using what we know about the characters to predict what will happen next in the story. We practiced this skill by reading books where the characters' actions follow a pattern.
To help students continue to learn more about the characters, I encouraged them to be detectives! Just like detectives, we can investigate our characters and collect evidence about the things the characters do and say. By noticing all of the things the characters say and do, we can learn more about them!
This week students continued working on their personal narrative writing pieces. They will continue this writing task next week to publish their third paragraph and present it to the class.
Students reviewed our new subtraction and addition strategies this week, then starting using these strategies to solve real-world problems. When students solve a story problem, we follow these steps:
1. Retell the story in your own words.
2. Ask yourself, "Will we have more or fewer at the end?"
More - We will use addition to solve the problem.
Fewer - We will use subtraction to solve the problem.
3. Solve the problem and prove your answer/show how you found the answer (write the number sentence/equation, draw a picture, use a number line, connecting cubes, or tens frame board and counters).
We completed chapter 8 and will begin chapter 9 next week. Chapter 9 is all about length and measurement.
On Monday, we started a weather investigation. Our question was, "How does the weather change day to day?"
Materials
thermometer
investigation page
weather pictures
Hypothesis
I think the weather will change from day to day.
I think the weather will not change from day to day.
Plan a Test
What do you want to find out?
I want to find out how the weather changes for five days. I will predict the weather on the sixth day.
When will you observe the weather? morning
What will you observe?
I will observe the weather each day. I will see if the sky is cloudy or clear. I will see if it is rainy outside.
We recorded weather data Monday - Friday and wrote the temperature, then practiced drawing conclusions at the end of the investigation. Students used their observations to answer these questions: How is the weather alike from day to day? How is the weather different from day to day? How did you make your predication for the sixth day (Saturday)? What other questions could you ask about the weather?
Social Studies
This week during Social Studies we focused on our environment. We learned that Earth is our home and we use things on Earth to help us live.
Natural Resources: water, soil, trees
We talked about the choices we make and how it's important for us to make choices that will help take care of natural resources.
Social Studies Vocabulary
Reduce: use less of something
Reuse: use something again
Recycle: take one thing and make it into something new
Have a wonderful and safe 4 day weekend! I will see everyone back to school on Wednesday, February 14th. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!
- Ms. Allison