Week 3

Here are a few highlights from our third week of school! The first photo shows students practicing just right bodies in the cafeteria (just right cafeteria expectations were our focus for PBIS this week), and the next three show a math activity where we practiced putting numbers in the correct order. The next few photos show kids making portraits a la Todd Parr (an author/illustrator who draws his people with bright neon colors), and the last few photos show the whole first grade playing the game "rock, paper, scissors, dragon" outside together!

More First Day Photos

Here we go!

Here are photos of kids drinking "Jitter Juice" on the first day to chase away any first day jitters and  creating a tally chart to show how many students did or did not like the jitter juice. There are some photos of our Mystery Name of the Day activity which helps us review word study ideas like vowel, consonants, and syllables while we learn about the students in our class, photos of students practicing book care, playing a partner math game with pennies, and a greater than/less than math game as a whole group on the interactive white board. I have also included a photo of our container of Champ Bands and photos of our first celebration where kids voted to bring in blankets and take a rest at the end of the day on our first Friday at school (a great way to end our first week)!

Stay tuned for more photos and posts about what we are doing in first grade!

First Week of School

Hi there families, my computer is acting funny at the moment and not letting me access all of the photos I've taken since school started but I am posting what I can get to today so you can see some of what we've been doing!

This week we are working on a counting project during math time where students are exploring strategies for counting a collection of cubes. Yesterday students worked with partners to decide how they wanted to count a collection. Afterwards we had a class discussion about what they chose to do and which strategies they found to be most successful. Today we are going to continue our discussion and do more counting, focusing on grouping the objects before we count.

On Tuesday we did a guided discovery lesson of the bus with Mrs. McCleary, our guidance counselor. She showed us the different safety features of a bus (the different lights, mirrors, exits, and the safety bar that comes out in front when the bus stops) and we got on a bus to practice the safe way to sit while riding a bus.

We did a "getting to know you" scavenger hunt where kids mingled in the classroom asking each other questions like "do you like pizza/dogs/the beach, etc?" This gave everyone a chance to continue learning each other's names and helped them to learn about their classmates interests!

More photos and information to come once I can access the rest of them! If you don't see your child pictured please make sure you signed and returned the blog permission slip!