Also, Thursday, September 23rd is a day off
for the students.
International Children's Day is coming up! It will be on Friday, October 1st.
All students are invited to come to school on October 1st wearing either traditional cultural dress or fun dress-up, such as an animal, character or object, from their family's home country. They will all deliver a presentation on the topic of their home country.
Students in G1-7 will make a digital PechaKucha presentation on the theme of 5 Fun Facts about their/their family's home country.
Grade 1 presentation format will be:
- 10x10 = 10 image slides at 10 seconds each. You will need to choose 5 images and upload each one TWICE. Then you can talk for 20 seconds about each one!
Grade 1 students will not have regular homework next week (week of September 20th). Instead they will need to create their International Children's Day slideshow at home with parent support using the PechaKucha website and think of one quiz question to share with their teacher. G1 quiz questions and final PechaKucha presentations will be due by Monday, September 27th.
We hope you enjoy creating your PechaKucha presentation for this year’s UST International Children’s Day!
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you for all your help!
Readers Build Good Reading Habits
During Reader's Workshop this week our class continued to work on building good reading habits during independent reading time (read to self).
Read to Self
- Eyes on your own book
- Read the whole time
- Stay in one spot
- Read quietly to yourself
- If you are done, get another book quickly.
Students also learned how to take a sneak peek at the beginning of a book and share what they think the book will be about. After taking a sneak peek and talking about their predictions, they checked their sneak peek by reading the book, thinking about their predictions and sharing if their thinking was correct. We talked about how it's okay if their predictions didn't match what happened in the story and we learned that readers' ideas can change each time they peek at the details of a book.
Our class also practiced reading with a partner. We learned that reading partners work as a team, building good habits together.
Small Moment Stories (personal narratives)
This week I introduced writing small moment stories. A small moment is a small part of a bigger story. I shared with the class that in Grade 1 we will be writing books like those in our classroom library. The students learned that when writers write a small moment story, they think of an idea, then they plan, and then they write the story.
Examples (big topic vs. small moment):
Big Topic: going to the park
Small Moment: playing on the swings
Big Topic: going to the beach
Small Moment: building a sandcastle
First, students brainstormed their own small moments to write about by thinking about something TRUE that has happened to them or something they have done. After that, they chose one small moment for their first story and started planning by telling their story out loud across 3 pages. They thought about the beginning, middle, and end of their story (e.g. One day... Then... Finally...). They drew pictures on each page of their book. They learned that writers use their sketches to help them write more. In each scene, they thought about: who, where, when, and what happened. When they finished their drawings, the students started writing their story by adding words to each page.
How Can We Get Along in School?
This week we sang the Getting Along song and found examples of students sharing, listening, talking, and taking turns. We also talked about how to play fairly and be a good sport.
Numbers to 10
This week during math our class practiced and reviewed:
- matching and comparing
- counting and comparing
- finding 1 more and 1 less than a number
- making number patterns
- finding missing numbers in a number pattern
Math Vocabulary: same, as many as, more, fewer, more than, less than
Next week we will start our next math chapter all about addition and subtraction to 10.
- Ms. Allison