The hunt for nouns!

All week long we've been learning all about nouns.  All different types of nouns, noun categories, and nouns in our environment.  We've had the opportunity to talk about them, look at them, watch a video about nouns, and write about nouns.  We even got to go on a noun hunt around our room.  Everyone got to go around the room and find or think of various nouns and write them under the correct category.  They had to find people/animals, places, and things.  Some friends used their previous experiences outside of our classroom to think of items we don't have in our room like animals or places they could go.  They all were great at helping if someone had a question or needed assistance finding, writing, or spelling a word.  Overall it was a wonderful hands on learning experience all about NOUNS! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABC order!

We started working on ABC order!  As a class we put our weekly spelling and high frequency words in ABC order then we got to work on cutting and pasting our own set in ABC order.  Last we used our planners to write our weekly words in ABC order!  We are going to become ABC champs soon :). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got some EEKK and silent reading time today with our daily 5!!!  Reading daily is an important part of our classroom and we have daily reading time :)

 

Fruit snack math!!!

Today we had some fun with math!  We were number detectives and found numbers within other numbers!  And thanks to our snack helper this past week we did some math with fruit snack! This of course made math super exciting :).  

Once we were all done they were super excited to eat the fruit (they thought it was funny that I told them they could eat the numbers).  

Number bond games!

We've continued working on making number bonds all this week as I'm sure you've seen in your child's homefun!

 

Today we played a partner game where they practiced using bears and a dry erase board.  One friend picked the total number of bears and the partner used the dry erase board to make a number bond and split the whole number in two parts. 

 

Math games ROCK!!!

 

 

 

 



First, Next, and Last!

Going along with our story of the week Curious George Goes to School we've been practicing sequencing.  Yesterday we verbally sequenced using "first", "next", and "last".  Today we used this concept and included writing.  Everyone got to write three sentences that went together going with these words and then if they chose to they got to present their sequencing story to the class. 

 

Two thumbs up Fantastic First Graders!!!

 

 

Meet the Fantastic First Graders!!!

We've had a great first two weeks of school!!!  Thanks for being fantastic first grade parents :).  

Monday, August 1st...EEKK reading :)

EEKK!!!

 

Today we began practicing our EEKK reading (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) with a partner.  We practiced this for 6 minutes and everyone did a great job.  We also had an opportunity to read independently.  This week we are working on various ways to read.  Everyone discussed the 3 ways you can read a book.

1. Read the words

2. Read the pictures

3. Retell the story

 

They were all very eager to try these methods and did a great job with it!  We will continue practicing this week and encourage you to practice at home as well.