Day in the Life of First Grader in May

Day of the Life of a First Grader in May

Handshake, high-five, or hug + lunch count

 Class meeting

Our friend taught us a new game for class meeting called "Meatball." She had the whole class giggling with her fun new game!

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 Science/Discovery

Quick review of the types of clouds

Creating different weather scenes and capturing the name of the type of clouds. 

 Read Aloud: Islandborn

During our reading lesson today, we read the book Islandborn. About this time, our AMAZING superintendent came in to see our first graders. Our class shared with him their interpretation of the book. Our kiddos talked about the "symbolism" of the monster, thinking the monster could actually mean a wild animal, a strong storm, or even a new government. Good job, first graders. Good job!

Private Reading

Audiobooks, online reading, and exploring topics that we are interested in

Shared Reading: Reviewing decoding and comprehension strategies together using a text that supports our science learning 

Recess

"Hanging around" at recess

Writing

We've been working on writing realistic books that are turning into series. Today we focused on organization, planning on our fingers to include only one problem and solution.  We then spent time duct taping each story together. Our kiddos LOVED this part of writing. Everyone is incredibly motivated to write more books in their series as the idea of duct tape must be super cool in first grade.

Author's share: These two students have been working tirelessly on a shared series. It's exciting to see what happens when our students combine passion, choice, and new learning.

Specials

We're off to P.E and Spanish. 

Movement Break 

After specials, to prepare for math, we do some type of movement break. Today, the kiddos ran/walk a lap on the blacktop. And they're off...

 Math

What day of the week did May start on? When will May be over?  

Building and exploring numbers

Reviewing subtraction strategies

Working on telling time to the hour and half hour

Practicing our skills using a calendar

Building math fluency using gregtang.com math games

Having fun building numbers in different ways.

Science

And then....my phone ran out of space! Such a bummer! We finished the day with some science fun. We took bubbles outside and explored what happened to the bubbles with the wind.