In SWR today we learned about a brand-new short vowel- o! The two short "o" families we will be learning about this week are the "___op" and "___ot" families. We brainstormed so many words that would fit in those families! Our red word of the week is for. We realized that this word is NOT a number word because that four has a "u" in it! We are very observant in first grade!
Our WOW word of the week is sweltering. Sweltering means extremely hot. We had fabulous examples of times we had all been sweltering.
In math today we learned about fact power (knowing your addition facts by heart) and turn around facts. We noticed that when adding, you can switch the numbers that are being added around and they still equal the same thing!
For example:
3+5=8 can be expressed 5+3=8 as well.
We played a fun partner-game with dice and tried to roll as many fact combinations as we could, and find their reversals, before our partner did.
Many of us continued our number-grid work from last week as well!
We started our week-long study about gingerbread men by reading The Ginger Bread Man. We really liked this book and couldn't believe how sneaky or sly the fox was to trick the Gingerbread Man! We are excited to read different versions of this story as the week progresses so we can compare and contrast them.
Check out that uppercasing and sentence ending!
We continue to learn all about the weather in science. Our focus this week will be about different types of clouds and the kinds of weather they bring. To finish our week about the Water Cycle up, we learned a new song to the tune of She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain. Here are the words if you'd like to sing with your first grader at home:
The Water Cycle
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does. Yes it does!
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does. Yes it does!
It goes up as evaporation,
Forms clouds as condensation,
Comes down as precipitation, yes it does. Yes it does!
And then there's collection...
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