Monday, January 16, 2012
Upcoming Events Update
I recently realized that I haven't updated the "Upcoming Events" part of the page recently. I have now fixed that. It is up-to-date!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Welcome Back!
We have started a new calendar year, and we've already been having a lot of fun being back at school!
Instead of our usual literacy work, we have been doing a unit about Jan Brett. We have used her books The Hat and The Mitten to compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram, and we have made text to text connections between her books, such a the fact that they usually have drawings in the side panels that hint to what is going to happen, there are often animals, and many take place during the winter. We also wrote a book ourselves called The Pants, which we wrote in a Jan Brett-style. We modeled it after The Mitten and will soon have it displayed in the hallway. Each student took a page and illustrated it, using strategies such as the side panels to tell not only what is going on in the story now, but what is to come.
While watching an interview with Jan Brett we got the idea to draw pictures for her and send them to her. We are very excited to see if she writes back!
We continue with our subtraction work in math. We learned that we can use a number line to add as well as subtract. We just have to count the other way!
Since we returned to school we have been talking about Scandinavia in social studies. We have learned that Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are the three main countries in Scandinavia, and that although they have different languages, they are very similar! Next week we will learn a little about the Vikings.
We have started a unit on the Fruits of the Spirit in religion class. We had a lot of fun using Kool-Aid to paint scratch and sniff pictures! We are talking about "love" right now, and how we know that others love us and how we show our love for others.
We have been learning about sound in science class. We had fun experimenting with different types of materials to see how well sound could pass through them. We also started talking about shadows, and enjoyed the last day of "spring" weather outside finding shadows on the playground!
We are learning about clothing in Spanish. Today I told the students to put certain items of clothing on paper dolls, and they did a wonderful job!
Instead of our usual literacy work, we have been doing a unit about Jan Brett. We have used her books The Hat and The Mitten to compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram, and we have made text to text connections between her books, such a the fact that they usually have drawings in the side panels that hint to what is going to happen, there are often animals, and many take place during the winter. We also wrote a book ourselves called The Pants, which we wrote in a Jan Brett-style. We modeled it after The Mitten and will soon have it displayed in the hallway. Each student took a page and illustrated it, using strategies such as the side panels to tell not only what is going on in the story now, but what is to come.
While watching an interview with Jan Brett we got the idea to draw pictures for her and send them to her. We are very excited to see if she writes back!
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| Jack and Michael work hard on their pictures for Jan Brett. |
We continue with our subtraction work in math. We learned that we can use a number line to add as well as subtract. We just have to count the other way!
Since we returned to school we have been talking about Scandinavia in social studies. We have learned that Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are the three main countries in Scandinavia, and that although they have different languages, they are very similar! Next week we will learn a little about the Vikings.
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| First and Second Grade playing the Danish game "Whales" in Social Studies. |
We have started a unit on the Fruits of the Spirit in religion class. We had a lot of fun using Kool-Aid to paint scratch and sniff pictures! We are talking about "love" right now, and how we know that others love us and how we show our love for others.
We have been learning about sound in science class. We had fun experimenting with different types of materials to see how well sound could pass through them. We also started talking about shadows, and enjoyed the last day of "spring" weather outside finding shadows on the playground!
We are learning about clothing in Spanish. Today I told the students to put certain items of clothing on paper dolls, and they did a wonderful job!
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