Reminder: Tomorrow is an early release day. Don't forget to wear your community teams shirt.
Day in the life of a first grade in the morning
We stay busy, stretching our minds and growing our practices. Check out what we accomplish before noon everyday! |
| Wondering Wednesday! |
Discovery:
Designing bridges using straws and tape. We've been discussing the purpose of revision/iteration.
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| My favorite picture! She had to revise her structure multiple times. Learning takes trial and error. |
Collecting interesting words. Some words we found today include: exclaimed, toll, perplexed
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| Some of the words we have collected |
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| Reading with Mrs. McCallister |
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| Book club: Growing conversation about qualities of the character |
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| Growing our conversations. Tracking our thinking with cubes. |
Word Work:
The students took an assessment on the following words. After completing the assessment, I met with the students individually to discuss strategies they used when spelling these words.
Writing:
Today's lesson focused on creating powerful sentences.
If a sentence:
- goes on and on and on, add punctuation to break the sentence apart.
- ends too soon, add linking words such as AND, BUT, BECAUSE and SO.
- gets confusing, BE BRAVE and say it a new way
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| Author's chair: Sharing her writing on the book Cats Vs. Dogs |
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| Author's Chair: Sharing lunch room expectations |
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