Egg-Cellent Easter Vacation

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  The Cady family enjoyed all of our time with family and friends. 
Before we left for break, my students were busy working on some egg-cellent Easter activities.  One activity was where the students had to design and Easter egg and then describe it in writing.  This was a great review of adjectives!

 

I look forward to seeing all of my students back at school tomorrow!

You've Got Mail!

To end our letter writing unit in Writer's Workshop, all of my students chose one of their letters, revised it, edited it, and rewrote it.  Then they learned how to address an envelope.  They will be receiving their published letter in the mail in a couple of days!  Thanks for all of the stamps!



Finished Letters

Folding our Letters

Ready to be Mailed!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

I cannot believe we are entering the final quarter of this school year!  CRAZY!  We are looking forward to getting outside again and restarting the walking club! 

Here is a sneak peak into some Units of Study we will be learning in the month of April....

Writer's Workshop
Poetry
We will be learning how to write all different types of poetry. 

Math
Money
We will be learning the names and values of coins and we will practice counting coins.
This skill can be difficult for some first graders. 

The Touch Money technique can be very helpful when a child has a difficult time counting mixed coins.   Every dot represents 5 cents.  Children can draw the dots on their money if they are completing a worksheet or remember that a nickel has 1 dot, a dime has 2 dots, and a quarter has 5 dots.  Then you count by fives.  You can try this technique at home with your child if they are having a difficult time counting mixed coins!

Monthly Math Journals

On Fridays in math, we work on our monthly math journals.  In our journal we focus on learning the important steps to solving a math story problem. 
This is called Model Drawing. 

The five steps we follow are:

1. Read the story problem
2. Write an answer statement with a blank.3. Find who and what and circle key words
4. Draw a picture
5. Solve the problem and complete the answer statement. 




















We also practice Inquiry Math. 
Inquiry Math is when I give the students an answer (ex:  the answer is 17) and the students have to think of all kinds of different ways to make 17 in math.  It is awesome to see their little minds at work trying to think of all different ways to make a number!