Already, our October has been so busy! Last week we had the cook out and got to eat outside, like a picnic. Thank you to all of the moms and dads who came to eat with us. We understand how hard it is to get off from work. We really enjoyed eating our hamburgers and ice cream!
Thank you to the two Watch D.O.G.S. that we've already had in our classroom. Mr. Licht and Mr. Howell were both very helpful and we enjoyed having someone in our room to play math games with us, help us with our Reading Round-up, and help us with anything we needed when Mrs. Maggart was busy teaching a group. We are also so lucky to have other helpers in our room during the week. It is so great to have another adult in the room when we need help spelling a word during Writer's Workshop or to sit and read one-on-one with me with a book I just got from my reading group. Thank you!
This week we talked all about punctuation. We read two very funny books, Punctuation Takes a Vacation and Punctuation Celebration. Madi donated Punctuation Celebration to our classroom library.
Thank you Madi! We are really working hard on remembering to end every sentence with a period, an exclamation mark, or a question mark, depending on how we want the reader to read our story. We had to help Mrs. Maggart put punctuation in her writing too. Can you help me check and make sure my punctuation is not on vacation when I am working on homework. Sometimes I forget!
We also talked about nouns and that they are a person, place, or thing. We read a very funny story called Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and found all sorts of nouns in it!
In math, we are working on addition. I know that I may make it look easy because I am such a great mathematician, but Mrs. Maggart is working with me on understanding my math words and how lots of words mean to add and to be able to quickly remember ways to make certain numbers. Mrs. Maggart likes to use a lot of different ways for me to learn. Sometimes we play games, sometimes we use math tools, and she tries to let us practice writing sentences and seeing addition on paper too. After all, we are all different learners. Mrs. Maggart also helps me with careless errors. Sometimes I get in such a hurry that I miss an answer!
When I'm not working with Mrs. Maggart in my math group, I am playing a fun math game. Here is a fun game we played where we had to find tricks and use strategies to remember how many dots were on the cards!
In science we have been talking a lot about natural resources and products that come from them. We made a chart of all the things that come from rock, soil, and water. We even turned our classroom into a museum of natural resources. Ask me what I found in the classroom that comes from rocks, soil, and water! We like to make our own vocabulary cards for science words.
We also had a special lab where we explored all of the different products made from rock.
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Monday we don't have any school but you will be meeting with Mrs. Maggart to talk more about what I'm doing in first grade!
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