Posted by Alissa | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 6, 2017
We eased back into our New Year in first grade by sitting down to paint snow friends. It was a lot of fun to get out the paint and be creative. They are now hanging in our classroom and look very pretty.
We also started a unit on reading Jan Brett books for Read Aloud time. She has so many beautiful winter stories. This week we read The Mitten. Children worked with partners to create the characters in the story. Then we painted, cut them out, labeled them, and created a winter scene for the bulletin board outside our classroom. Come take a look at it! It is based on the story.
We have some new math games in the classroom. They are all reinforcing the math concepts we are working on everyday, adding and subtracting within 10. By the end of first grade, we hope all first graders know combinations of 10, doubles facts, and +0 and +1 facts. Here are some kids at work learning our new games.
We started a new unit in writing. We are now writing non-fiction stories. Today the kids spent a long time just reading non-fiction texts to become familiar with how they are different from fiction.
We also had a student teacher join our classroom this week. Harper will be with us from Antioch University on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We are happy to have her join our class for the next several months.
Have a great weekend!
