Our Fourth Day of School

It is already the end of our fourth day in first grade and we are doing such a great job learning our routines, practicing using materials, helping each other, and learning to do reading, writing, and math work! Today we read a book called, The Best Place to Read then students wrote pages for a class book, this one titled, "Our Favorite Places to Read" (last week we wrote pages for a class book called "My Summer Vacation." We also did writing related to our word study "mystery name of the day" game. It is wonderful to see how the first graders are remembering to stretch out the words they want to spell then writing down the sounds they hear. That is a very important step in learning to write and I am so proud to see everyone in our class working hard at it! Today we did more practice using and caring for the books our classroom library and students are quickly learning where to find their favorite authors and titles in the room! At the end of the day, during math, we have been working on number sense as we discuss the number of the day (today's number is 4 since it is the 4th day of school) and we will add more to this process as we learn more and more about numbers. So far we are representing the number of the day with tallies, place value, coins, written out in word form, and we are identifying one more and one less than the number. As the year goes on we will add in determining if the number is odd or even, recording the numbers that are 10 more and 10 less, writing equations to represent the number, and writing numbers greater than and less than our number. We work on "Number of the Day" as our warm up for math each day and this is one way that we work on building "number sense," or a more complete understanding of numbers in first grade. Below are some photos from today!

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