Chilly Tuesday

Now that the weather is cold, damp, and wet, please remember to send your child in with warm weather gear, dry clothes (especially socks!), and most importantly, a change of shoes for the day!  If they have a pair of shoes they can leave at school, that is fine.

We started our day with Wallah teaching SWR to celebrate her awesome behavior.  She did a fabulous job leading our red words and checking student's work for correct spelling and letter formation.  The rest of the class did a fabulous job following Wallah's directions!

In math today we practiced measuring items around our classroom with non-standard measuring tools such as our fingers, hands, feet, paces, and arms!  We learned that many of our body parts have a fancier name when using them to measure, such as a yard, digit and cubit.  Using the chart below- can you guess what these first graders are measuring with?

Some students wanted to see how many "hands" I was, so they took turns measuring me.  To some, I was 13 hands, to others I was 15.  

In reading today we reviewed vowels, the different sounds they can make, and why they're important.  In our writing, we're always checking to make sure that our words have at least one vowel.  We also learned about three letters, that when placed together at the end of the word, mean we're doing it RIGHT NOW.

ING

We practiced adding "ing" to the end of many words to show that we are doing something.  We also wrote stories with many words ending in ing.  

Colin wrote about his morning going to school. Check out all of those vowels in his words!

Ryan P. demonstrates what blastoff means in his reading group.

Then, Ryan added ing to the word write to build a sentence about what he's been doing.  (Did you notice that all of his words have vowels?!?)

Avery wrote a story about Dancing with the Stars- she added ing to dance, amaze, and dress.  

Wallah shows us that she can build words with vowels as well!

Tucker and Connor work to add ing to words.

Joud wrote a poem using word family words and made sure each of her words had vowels.

Matthew built a sentence about his car.

Angie wrote sentences and made sure that each of her words had vowels.  

Gavin wrote two sentences about attending Cub Scouts with Tucker and hiking Mt. Philo.

In math we compared objects to one another and we realized that we can compare things using the endings er and est.  We noticed that Miss Terrien is short, Ava is shorter, but Angie is shortest.  We also realized that Ryan F's hair is long, Matthew's hair is longer, but Hannah's hair is longest!  We loved comparing things, and people, around our room and finding other words we could use to compare.