A big thank you to Mr. O'Neill for being our first Mystery Reader of the school year!
Every month, we are inviting parents to UST to read a book to the G1 students. G1A and G1B classes will come together in the shared space to listen to the Mystery Reader read a story.
We are looking for more parents to participate as Mystery Readers during the school year, so please take a moment to click here and sign up for a week/day that works well with your schedule. Thank you!
November Birthday Celebration
Show and Tell
Week 2 Presentations
Week of November 19th
Topic: My Family
Morning Meeting / Calendar Time
Spelling
words ending with -nk, -mp, ng, -nd, -nt
Reading
Tackling Trouble
This week we completed our reading unit Tackling Trouble. To end the unit, students practiced coaching nicely to help their reading partners find mistakes when they read. If their reading partner made a mistake while reading, they said, "check that" to help their partner fix the mistakes and reread.
Our class also reviewed how to read in a good reading voice (storyteller voice). We talked about the difference between reading a fiction book and a nonfiction book and how we make sure our voice sound right.
Fiction - sound like you're telling a story
Nonfiction - sound like you're on the Discovery Channel
Students practiced picking a fiction book and reading in their best reading voice!
Poetry
Rhyming Poems
At the end of each reading unit, our class will focus on a different type of poetry. This week we learned about rhyming poems. Students reviewed rhyming words and played a game to find words that rhyme. We learned that a rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains rhyming words at the end of certain lines. Together we read poems, circled rhyming words, and talked about the rhythm of the poems.
Writing
Narrative Writing
During Writing this week, students followed the writing process to publish another personal narrative. They completed this work independently and it will be graded as a final assessment to end our narrative writing unit. We will have a writing celebration next week and students will present their published work to their classmates!
Writing Process
Pre-write
Write
Revise
Edit (spelling, capital letters, end marks)
Publish
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Shapes and Patterns
Our new Math chapter focuses on shapes and patterns. To begin this chapter, our class learned about plane shapes. We created a shape poster for each shape (see list of shapes below). Each shape poster includes: name, number of sides, number of corners, what it reminds us of, and examples of the shape in the classroom. While creating the posters, students discussed how the shapes are alike and different. We also practiced sorting the shapes in many ways: color, shape, size, sides, corners.
Math Vocabulary
Plane Shapes / 2D Shapes
Circle
Square
Rectangle
Triangle
Trapezoid
Rhombus
Hexagon
Social Studies
Why Do Schools Have Rules?
This week our class thought about rules at home and at school. We 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 were 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.
Have a great weekend!
- Ms. Allison