Grade 1 Weekly Blog

 Friday, January 30th Hello grade one families! It was great to finally meet so many of you this week during conferences. It is wonderful to see how supportive you all are of your students learning! This week we learned some new heart words: said, have, what, and want. A reading passage was also sent home this week for extra practice and for you to see how your students reading is coming along. At this point in the school year, students should be able to recognize known heart words and sound out unknown words in the passage, and be able to explain what the passage was saying after they are done reading it.  Our spelling words for next Friday will be: What, are, has, they,  raft, felt, twin, spot, plum, mint Our sentence will be: What do they have in the bag? In social studies this week, we talked about natural and manmade landmarks. Ask your student if they can think one natural and one manmade landmark in their area!  In math, we began talking about the different wa...

Friday, January 23rd Hello grade one families! I finally have access to the weekly blog and will be posting updates here at the end of each week. Since I have been in for Ms. Carter, we have been learning lots! In math, we have learned different ways to represent numbers, print numbers, evens and odds, and we have recently begun addition and doubles! This week we took a short break from doubles to learn about some 2D shapes. Ask your student about the shape monster they made on Wednesday! Next week we will be getting back to addition and focusing on the different ways to make 10. In science, we have learned about the changing of seasons, what animals and people do in the winter time (including migrating, adapting, and hibernating). We have also done a few art projects for science, such as painting and drawing deciduous and coniferous trees in the fall and winter time. We have also recently started learning about the properties of matter, such as height, weight, length, and area. We wil...