Wild Week

We have a very fun week planned with many different activities.

We had two students leave school early today because they weren't feeling well and we've noticed much more sneezing/coughing than usual.  We are being vigilant about washing our hands and practicing safe coughing/sneezing- please encourage your first grader to do this at home as well!  Washing our hands often is one of the best preventions to keep us healthy this winter! 

Our new red word of the week is has.  We noticed that the "s" in has sounds like a "z".  Our two word families this week are in the short "o" family- __og and __od.  We came up with so many words that would fit into these families!  Our favorites were hog and body.  We also learned that another ending mark besides a period is a question mark.  We use question marks when we are asking a question.  Periods are used for telling sentences.  We will be re-reading stories that we have written so far this year and adding question marks if we notice we need them.

In math we started Unit 5.  Unit 5 focuses on place value, number stories and basic facts.  We used base-10 blocks today to show different two digit numbers in tens and ones.  We also learned how to exchange ten ones for a ten to make counting easier.  Look at the first graders working hard to show how numbers are broken up into 10's and 1's.

During reading today our Student of the Week, Joud, read to us one of her favorite stories, Wacky Wednesday. The first graders loved this story and loved how expressive Joud was while reading it.  She did a fabulous job! 

As a class, we came up with examples of telling sentences and asking sentences and wrote them on a chart to help us remember when to use periods and when to use question marks.  During literacy stations we worked to write asking sentences and words in our word families.  The first graders did a wonderful job!