What a fun week we had this week! We had so many special visitors in our classroom and they had nothing but great things to say about how hard we are working in our room. Mrs. Connelly, our Assistant Principal, came to.visit us one morning during our Reading Roundup time. She said she couldn't believe we were first graders. She complimented us on how engaged we were in our reading activities. Afterall, the only way to become a better reader is to read every day! Brian's grandmother came in to visit as well. She was so helpful and I really liked how she helped me if I had a question. She even sat and read with a few of our Tiger Team members. We hope she can visit again!
Mrs. Maggart has been reading with us in our groups. Its fun to be in a group of readers who like the same books as I do. We are learning about reading strategies to help me on those hard parts. Mrs. Maggart even let's us take home the book we read together. Its okay if you can't sit and read it with me because I have already read that book 3 or 4 times so I should be able to read it all by myself.
Every morning Mrs. Maggart read us a story about a different character. We got to create our own characters and we made character trading cards. We are using our cards to write a story about our character. Ask me what character I created!
In social studies, we are learning about maps. We explored with magnifying glasses different types of maps and even looked at globes. We helped our friend Bob find his way around by using a compass rose and a map key. We even made our own compass roses. Mrs. Maggart says we are going to need them for something next week. Hmm. What could we be doing? :-)
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| Designing our compass rose in our Social Studies notebook |
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| Almost done...just need to label North, East, South, and West. |
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| Exploring maps and globes |
You should be so proud of me! I am becoming such a great mathematician. We are building numbers with tens and ones, making 10 in different ways, and practicing my skip counting everyday. We just love math!
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| Playing math games on our laptops. |
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| Practicing our skip counting with games. |
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| Working hard on our daily problem solving. |
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| Anyone want to play a math card game? |
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| Which dice is more? |
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| Wow Mrs. Maggart! She won again! |
In science we learned all about where we can find water. I learned about streams, rivers, lakes, and the ocean. There is fresh water and salt water. We did a science experiment to see if an egg would float in salt water and if it would float in fresh water. Ask me what happened! Mrs. Maggart said our jobs as scientists is to ask an adult what a natural resource is. We are starting a whole new lesson on Monday.
Next week we will be talking about college and different things I can be when I grow up. We will get to visit with a guest who will tell us all about his job working with NASA. We took our picture for our college bond pendant and its hanging in the hallway. See if you can find it! Tiger Team is college bound!
Let's have a great weekend!
Love,
