Ub, Ud, Um

Can you guess what our three new word families are this week?  You got it!  Ub, ud, and um.  We were so surprised we already knew so many words in these families.  It's hard to have ud and ub together because b's and d's are so tricky already!  There was a little more erasing today than usual... our red word of the week is want.  We were happy that it was back to four letters.  (Could is still confusing some of us!)

Unit 6 in math is all about fact power- that is when we just know our math facts.  We learned a new game today, Top-It Addition , to help us with our math facts.  We loved playing this game and were so excited when we got a card in the teens because it usually meant that we were going to win! 

In literacy/social studies we embarked on a journey to China!  We will be learning about the country of China for the next 5 weeks and can't believe how much we've learned already!  We read a book, Postcards from China , and chose the most important piece of information that was on each page and recorded it on our All About China paper.  Sometimes we had to choose two because it was *so* informative!

We opened a new literacy station today- Listen to Reading.  We can choose between two books to listen to about China this week.  We really enjoyed listening to a digital book today.  We also worked on writing, did work work, and logged onto RAZ-Kids.  If anyone has any headphones laying around that you're no longer using- we'd love to use them in our classroom!  The kind that cover ears are best (not ear-buds), with so many computers/listening stations it's hard to keep up!  Feel free to send them in with your first grader.  

It is so cold outside that we didn't make it out for recess- we did create some amazing things inside though!

This afternoon we had DARE with Officer Fontaine.  We are learning a lot from him.  

Please remember that Thursday night is Project Inside Out Spaghetti Dinner!  We only have three nights this week so please practice poems A LOT too!  Thank you!