Measurement March Madness!

In math, we are learning how to measure!  Here are some great pics of some fun measuring activities we did in the month of March!

Our Friday Outstanding Behavior Raffle winners were (5/22/13): 

Ky and T.R.

Happy Easter!

 

All About Reading

We love to read in first grade!  We also love learning how to be an independent reader!
Here is a look into our classroom during reading instruction: 

Whole Group Instruction
I do 3 whole group mini lessons during our reading block.  Each mini lesson is less than 10 minutes long.  We do a word work lesson, a reading lesson, and an independent reading lesson.  In between each mini lesson, the kids are making reading choices and I am meeting with guided reading groups.

Here are the kids during a word work lesson.  We are learning and writing the meaning of our vocabulary words.




Whole group=discussing and writing our vocabulary words!

Guided Reading
This is my favorite part of our reading block!  I get to meet with a group of kids and help them become better readers!  We read books that are slightly more difficult than what they can read independently and I teach them important reading strategies to use while reading a book!


Reading Choices
While I am meeting with a guided reading group, the other children are completing various reading activities that they were able to choose.  Here are some great examples of the kids hard at work! 

Reading a Big Book

Magnetic Letters



Reading Magazines

Practicing Spelling Words

Read to Self
During the last 20 minutes of our reading block, the students are able to independently read their books from their book boxes.  Before they begin reading, I always give them a purpose to read!  They are also able to jump on one of the computers and take an AR quiz if they are ready! 

Taking AR tests

Read-to-Self

Read-to-Self

There are so many great things happening in first grade!!  I am very impressed with all of my students and their amazing abilities!

I hope to see everyone at Bingo For Books this Thursday, March 21st! 

Hickory Dickory Dock

In math we are learning how to tell time on an analog clock! 
We had fun in our guided math groups learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour!   

 

Here is a fun online clock to practice telling time at home....

clock

 

 

Our Friday Outstanding Behavior Winners....

Noah and Shania

 

 



Life Cycles

In Science we have been learning about living and non-living things.  This week we discussed life cycles!  Here is a little activity we completed to remember the steps of a frog's life cycle!  

It was also Read Across America Week and we had so much fun dressing up as some of our favorite book characters!  Here are just a few that we saw in our classroom:

Outstanding Behavior Friday Raffle Winners:

Last Week

This Week