Happy Friday Families!
I hope you all had a nice week! I miss all of you so much and hope we can be back in school soon! I popped into the building yesterday to grab some books and it was so quiet! I definitely look forward to the day we are all together again! Next week our district is hosting a virtual spirit week! You can post your spirit to our class Seesaw and/or to Facebook and tag the ISD! I can't wait to see your superhero spirit, what you're reading, and your school colors! In addition to my e-mails and updates, Ms. Tapper will be sending out a weekly newsletter with information from the district and updates from our amazing specialist teachers! This week, I have scheduled many different Seesaw activities that will post throughout the week. Each day when there is an assigned Seesaw activity (see our class calendar under the Emergency Learning tab), a new assignment will post at a scheduled time. Reading will post at 9:30, writing at 10:30, math at 12:00, and science/social studies/SEL/art at 2:30. This is to help maintain our school schedule while doing remote learning. I have also added a sample timeline for each subject in our Emergency Learning tab. This is to give you an idea of how long your student should be reading, writing, and doing math activities/games. This is just a recommendation :) In addition to the activities assigned in our class calendar, I have added a new link in the Emergency Learning tab labeled Wakelet. This link will direct you to the district's resources for First Grade. Here you can find other activities to do with your student! This resource will be edited every week with new activities. I will continue to read My Father's Dragon to Seesaw and give little updates about what I have been up to! Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns! I miss you all! Happy Friday Families!
Our class has been so busy this week and been showing so much progress! I can't believe it is almost spring! I am definitely ready for the sunny weather! Writing: This week we created catchy introductions to draw our readers into our opinion stories! Many students asked questions or gave an interesting detail to get readers excited about their story! We then practiced writing a conclusion that left the reader knowing exactly what our opinion is! Reading: During our reading unit this week, we focused on comprehension while reading. To check our understanding, we practiced stopping every few pages and asking ourselves questions about the story. If we couldn't remember all the details, we went back to reread so we didn't miss a thing. Math: We finished our third math unit this week! Each student showed their knowledge on graphs and measurement as they completed their end of module test. Next week we will start our new unit where we will be looking closer at place value! Science: In Motion this week, our class learned the words motion and force and their respective definitions. We then used these new vocabulary words while testing different kinds of motion by using force on toy cars. It was so fun to use an everyday object to show a science topic! Thank you all for your continued support! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend with rest and relaxation! I will see you all on Monday! |