school

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Our hero...Zero!

We listened to the book Zero the Hero and then made our own hero costumes!! Zero the Hero is just so super important!




Tuesday, September 25, 2018

math games

Playing simple math games is such a great way to practice our addition and subtraction skills.






Friday, September 14, 2018

I love so many things about Daily 5, but the first 'Read to Someone' is my favorite!  This time it happened to fall on a Friday so we tried out our flashlights.









Thursday, September 13, 2018

Saving Fred

We tried a team building activity today and learned it is sometimes hard to work with friends but if we listen, keep calm, use kind voices, and encourage each other we will figure out solutions to our problems.





Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Best Start Ever!!

Wow!! Only ten days in and your kids are amazing me every day!
We celebrated Zero the Hero today- forgot to take pictures!  Sorry!!

In math we are learning about addition and have been joining groups of goldfish crackers, fruit loops, marshmallows, and pretzels.  Math is delicious!

We have been building stamina in reading, math, and writing.  We practice working independenly in all these subjects so I can have one on one conferences with students or work with small groups.  Our goal in reading is 20 minutes of independent reading and usually it takes first graders well into October to complete that goal.  Your kiddos are already at 17 minutes!  So fantastic!!
They also now know when they can interrupt me during small groups or individual conferences...
  

STEM activities have been exciting as we learned about the states of matter and our brain.  We have shot off bottle rockets, built a 'skull' to protect our brain, learned about our dendrites, built tall towers out of index cards, and watched corn kernels dance.