Sunday, September 10, 2017

September 8th


We made it through 4 days of school this week! We worked hard getting into a routine and learning the schedule we'll be keeping.

-In math we've been working on counting and identifying numbers to 50.
-During reading workshop we talked about what readers do and we independently read for 5 minutes each day
-During Fundations we've been introducing letters each day and reviewing how to write them. Next week we're going to continue and practice writing our names
-We began writing workshop this week

Looking forward to a full week next week!
Miss Walsh

Sunday, September 3, 2017

August 31st

Welcome to first grade! I'm so excited to meet all the new students and their families! We had a great first week full getting to know each other and schedules for our day. Next week we'll continue getting to know each other and get a bit more into what we'll be learning throughout the school year!

Friday, January 27, 2017

January 27th


January 27, 2017
Here are a few highlights of our week:

In math we:
-Continued working on time
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In reading we:
·         Focused on Features of a Nonfiction Text
·         -Table of Contents
      -Index
-Glossary
-Pictures
-Captions

In writing we:
·         Continued writing How Tos

In Fundations we:
·         Finished our unit on consonant blends
·         We had a check-in on Friday

In science, we continued to talk about light. 

Have a great weekend,

Miss Walsh

Friday, January 20, 2017

January 20th

January 20, 2017

We had a great first week back to school in the new year.

In math:
-started working with time
-we focused on hour and half hour, we will begin working on drawing the hands of the clock next week

In reading:
-we started looking at nonfiction books
-we will be looking at different features of a nonfiction text next week

In Fundations:
-we introduced consonant blends (examples: st, br, sl)
-our trick words are would, could, should, her, number, over

In Science:
-we watched a Magic School Bus on Light
-Reading a light book during reading workshop

In writing workshop our class is working on writing How To texts so for our craft today we made paper footballs. We did not get much time to practice with them but they are in their backpacks.

Here is the link in case they get lost and would like to make one:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-Paper-Football/step14/step14/

Have a great weekend!

Don't forget to read and pack the Read Across Wrentham sheets for Monday!


Miss Walsh

Saturday, January 7, 2017

January 6th

January 6, 2017

We had a great first week back to school in the new year.

In math:
-we wrapped up our unit 2 which focused on place value, numbers 1-120, and hundreds chart grids.
-next week we will be focusing on addition and subtraction within 15

In reading:
-we started talking about metacognition; thinking about thinking
-we focused on what we should be thinking about while reading
-we also reached 22 minutes of independent reading to earn Pj day!

In Fundations:
-the week before break we introduced glued sounds (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk)
-next week we will add the suffix s to those glued sounds
-we will also have a check in

In Science:
-we finished up our weather unit
-started our light unit by using flashlight to determine where light goes and what it can travel through. We talked about objects that are translucent, transparent and opaque.
-we also read about polar bears in our Scholastic magazine and how they copy their mothers

I hope you all had a great start to your new year!
Miss Walsh