This Week in Pictures!

We have been busy sharing our Flat Stanley and Flat Stella projects.

It is exciting to hear about our winter breaks.

We are working on speaking clearly and loud in front of a group.

We worked on a reading challenge this week for fireflies.

We had to go back in the text to find the evidence for our answer.

This is a big skill that we will be working on for the rest of the school year.

Where did you read THAT in the text? Go back and find the evidence. 

Order forms went home for our class book we are publishing.

All order forms need to be turned in by January 31st.

We have been working hard to tackle our "just right fits" for math.

Khan Academy Mappers is aligned with where your child is at for the latest winter MAP testing. You can see what skills your child needs to work on to move up to the next level. If you are looking for a way to challenge your child, Khan Academy Mappers does a fine job.

We are also using Tenmarks to work on specific 1st grade standards. Depending on how well your child does on the assignment, he/she may be working on challenge work on this app as well. 

Way to go, Cacioppo Crew!

I love how you set goals and crush them.

3rd Graders came in to work on a project with our class for their upcoming assembly.

How can we use our talents to help others?

We have been so busy reading!

It is no surprise that we are up to 900 books on Epic.

Can the Cacioppo Crew make it to 1,000 books by 2/27?

We are well on  our way!

We learned this week that we are interdependent. 

We count on each other to do our part to help make our class stronger.

In science, we had our first light experiment.

Is the material transparent, translucent, or opaque.

We had to discuss our predictions, run the test, and record our observations. 

Our leader read a book to the class "Who's On First."

This went along great with our conversations this week on Habit 5- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

We began our illustrations for our non-fiction book.

We acted out a reader's theatre that reminds us how important it is to not prejudge someone.

Leaders need to get more information before making decisions about others.

Fireman Mike came to visit today and to teach us about fire safety.

He gave our class a special homework assignment that is due on Tuesday.

Please make sure to have your child memorize his/her address before he returns next Friday!

We learned to stay low and go!

We had a guest reader come and visit today. 

Our class loves hearing stories from visitors!

Have a great weekend!

This Week in Room 8 (1/8 to 1/12)

Calling all Flat Stanleys and Flat Stellas...

Please return to Room 8 or 

post on Seesaw by tomorrow.

Thanks!

ELA:
This week we take a deeper look at finding specific examples in the text that support our answer. We will be reading and answering questions by going back and highlighting the answer in the specific color for the given question.

Other skills that we will work on this week include the following:

• Introduction to idioms
• Using context clues to determine meaning of unknown word in a given text
• Dropping the final e before adding -ed or -ing
• Going back in our writing and adding adjectives to create more detailed sentences
• Verb agreement with is/are/was/were

Word Wall Words:

• goes
• write
• always
• made
• gave
• us
• use

MATH:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Continued practice on place value (hundreds, tens, ones and beyond)
• Understanding the difference between finding the digit and the value of the underlined digit in numbers to 120 and beyond
• Using our place value knowledge to read and write the number given in a specific word sentence. Example- four tens, seven ones, and eight hundreds = 841
• Strategies for solving word problems and showing evidence for how we solved the problems

SCIENCE:
We will continue learning more about light and shadows.

Words Their Way:
Your child will be introduced to a new sort this week based on his/her developmental spelling. Please keep an eye out for your child's sort so the spelling pattern can be reinforced at home.

Rooted Mind:
-fy, fact-, -fect means to make, do, build, or cause

Last Week in Pictures!

My New Year's resolution is to show the families of Room 8 more pictures of all the amazing learning that takes place in our classroom each week on our class blog. I have always posted pictures on Twitter with  @kelliecacioppo and #cacioppoleaders. You can check out our student tweets on @cacioppoleaders. I try to follow up at the end of the week with Storify. You can check out last week's Storify here.

Here is a look back at our first week in 2018!

We have read 800 books since the start of the school year on Epic.

Our goal is to reach 1,000 books by February 27th. 

Keep reading!!

We are learning about proactive language and how to be a transition person.

How can we turn something negative into something positive?

We have the choice in every circumstance.

We learned how to be proactive and improve ourselves. 

When we try to get better we will inspire others to want to get better at something.

This goes along with being positive. If I am positive, I will inspire others to think positive.

We have been busy working on our new word sorts.

Mrs. Buch taught us about the new expectations for the MPR during lunch time.

Now that we know the plan, we are ready to lead the way!

We are working on our reading comprehension skills on Kids A-Z.

One challenge that we are working on is to go back in the text to find the evidence.

Where did it say that? I will go back and find the answer!

What do you like to do on a snowy day?

We would show you, but it is too cold outside!

We are writing down what we like to do in our booklet.

Flat Stellas and Flat Stanleys are returning to Kipling.

We are sharing our adventures with the class.

As we share, we are working on our presenting skills:

making sure our audience can hear us, understand us, and that we are able to answer questions from our audience! 

We have been so busy researching for our upcoming class book. 

I will be sending home important information this week about this official book that we will have published by SchoolMate Publishing!

We learned about an onomatopoeia.

Our challenge was to research to find an onomatopoeia for our animal.

We celebrated when we reached our goals in math on Khan Academy Mappers and Tenmarks!

Khan Academy Mappers is a great app for "just right fit" activities in math. Tenmarks starts by having the student work on the first or second grade skill and adjusts to challenge or remedial based on the student's performance.

Keep up the good work and keep on practicing!

We discussed how Habits 1, 2, 3, and 7 are "Me" Habits and 4, 5, and 6 are "We" Habits.

We learned about the abundance mentality.

We want to be happy and we want others to be happy too.

It is important to think of others so everyone feels good.

We had an incredible opportunity to visit the LMC twice on Friday!

In the morning, we went down to learn how to use the library resources to find information about specific topics.

We typed in our animal to find the call number. We then used the call number in the library to find our book on our topic.

We are experts at Pebble Go, but we also learned how to use World Book Online for our research.

Happy Researching!

Welcome Back!

ELA:
This week we will be setting reading goals and see what we need to continue to work on in order to reach our goals.

We will also be working on the following skills:

• Restate the question in our answer (in a complete sentence)
• Doubling the final consonant (words that have one consonant after the vowel) before the ending and changing y to ies
• Using the verbs is, are, was, were appropriately in conversation and in writing
• Practice going back in the text to find the answers to the questions
• Homophones
• Using Context Clues to determine meaning of unknown word
• Word Relationships- See below

L.1.5. With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

A. Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

B. Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

C.Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

MATH:

This week we will review skills that have been introduced earlier in the year. We will also work on the following skills:

• Comparing numbers up to 120 (and beyond) using <, =, and >
• Continue to explore place value (hundreds, tens, and ones) and special cases (25 can be 2 tens, 5 ones OR 1 ten, 15 ones OR 25 ones).
• Represent, compose, and decompose numbers using place value terms

SCIENCE:

We will begin our new physical science unit on Light and Sound.

Rooted Mind:

Our root for the week is -odont  dent-  means tooth

Please keep an eye out for words with our root. See if your child can spot the words!

Words Their Way:

We will continue learning our "just right" developmental spelling patterns. Keep a look on Seesaw to see what spelling pattern your child is working on this week!