Last Week in Pictures!

The #cacioppoleaders are working on fluency and expression.

The first time we read the passage, we are reading for speed.

The second time through, we are getting our storytelling voices activated.

Last week we discovered that certain words describe our senses and other words can describe emotions. We became detectives going back in the text to find words in the two different categories.

What is a 3rd alternative? It is when you take two ideas and put them together

 to make an even better idea!

We connected our learning to a story about pizza. 

We are working on restating the question in our response, and following descriptive words as we color our pizzas.

What collection do you like best?

First graders are learning how to write opinion papers by providing many reasons why something is the best.

We love playing games. 

In this picture, we are practicing telling time.

We are working on identifying place value in numbers and strategy to have many blocks of our color in a row. This game went home last week.

We explored a new feature on Khan Academy... the Grammar section!

This gives us a chance to practice identifying nouns, common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and more! Once we make our way through nouns, we get to move on to verbs. Feel free to check it out and work on this at home!

We love exploring shadows! 

We made our own shadows with our buddy.

Do you see the butterfly?

We wrote our reflection on shadows.

If you ever see a partial post on Seesaw, ask your child what he/she was working on. 

Sometimes we run out of time and cannot finish our typing!

We enjoyed reading and responding to "Hey, Little Ant."

Students wrote an opinion paper on whether or not the boy should squish the ant.

Great work, Cacioppo Crew!

Keep bringing in your stories from home!

We love hearing stories from our friends.

3rd Grade Music/Talent Show!

Our Leader shared his adventures with Purple Hoser!

He also read a funny book to the class!

He also shared his talent with the class.

We LOVE buddy reading!

We are working on fluency, expression, and discovering new books when we read with our friends.

We did it!

Our class read 1,100 books.

We had to set up a new goal:

1,500 books on Epic by February 27th.

Can we do it?

We enjoyed having a Guest Reader visit.

We are working on responding to the books that we read.

If we are reading non-fiction, we are working on writing 3 facts and adding our favorite part.

If we are reading fiction, we are writing the beginning, middle, and end, as well as our favorite part.

Good readers do more than read the words, they think about what they are reading!

This Week in Room 8 (1/29 to 2/2)

This week we begin Quarter 3 in 1st Grade!

ELA: 
We started our new unit on Leadership and Good Citizens. We will be reading a wide-range of fiction and non-fiction text to learn more about leadership qualities and characteristics of a good citizen.

Skills that we will be working on this week include:

• Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses
• Understand the differences between words, phrases, and sentences
• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories
• Understand "who" and "what" within stories
• Understand what an adventure is
• Understand what an experience is
• Revisiting contractions

Word Wall Words:

• found     
• because    
• best    
• upon     
• these

Writing:

We continue to work on skills for writing opinion papers. 

Math:

This week we will continue to work on the following skills:

• Place Value and place value regrouping
• Continued reinforcement with adding, subtracting, and multiplication
• Showing thinking and solving word problems
• Organize, interpret, and represent data from a graph

Science:

This week we will continue to learn about sound and how sound travels!

Rooted Mind:

This week our root is "naut-, naus-, nav- " (which means sailor, ship)

This Week in Room 8 ( 1/22 to 1/26)

ELA:
This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Identifying and using the correct subject pronoun (I, she, he, it, you, they, we)
• Comparing and contrasting characters' experience by identifying words and phrases in stories and in poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
• Spelling patterns with Long o (o, o_e)  and Long u (u, u_e) 
• /j/ spelled ge or gi

Rooted Mind:

• -cede, - ceed, -cess (means to go, yield, withdraw)

Writing:

We are adding our final touches to our class book (cover, title page, and table of contents). Woohoo! This week we will begin our opinion writing.

Word Wall Words:

pull     both    which    read  why

MATH:

This week we will work on the following skills:

• Solving word problems by showing our work and explaining our thinking
• Continue to work on addition and subtraction strategies
• Continue to work on place value

                             5,356           Digit in tens place = 5 

                                                 Value of tens place = 50

Science:
This week we will take a closer look at how shadows are made.

Leader in Me:

This week we will learn about Synergy and coming up with a 3rd alternative. When we take two ideas and put ideas together, we can come up with an even better plan to solve a problem.

Last Week in Pictures

During our Lead Time, we focused on the importance of being honest.

Leaders tell the truth so others can trust them.

We met with our accountability partners to talk about challenges with being honest. 

We will be checking back at the end of the week to see if we are reaching our goals.

We watched the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and discussed why it is so important to always tell the truth.

Good Readers think about what they are reading.

We are working on going back in the text to find the answer.

When we write down our response, we are working on restating the question in our written response.

The 3rd Graders led the Leadership Assembly!

Congratulations to our classroom leaders for the month!

In Science, we are discovering how light creates shadows.

We are working on different challenges to make the shadows large/small and projected onto different areas (like the ceiling).

We started our Friday off with a guest reader. 

We love listening to stories!

Friends are sharing stories that they write at home.

Keep up the great work!

We checked in with our accountability partner to see how we are doing with being honest.

We shared situations where we had to decide to tell the truth.

Fireman Mike came in for his 2nd session on Fire Safety.

Congrats to everyone that turned in their homework assignment.

Please make sure to keep practicing your address so you are prepared in case of an emergency.

We acted out a scenario where we had to provide information in case of an emergency.

Way to rock your address, #1!

Fireman Mike had to step away. When he came back, we were in the middle of a Go Noodle.

It is always great to get our extra energy out!

We learned about what to do if we see matches, lighters, sparklers, and other dangers...

Do not touch and go tell an adult!

During our Class Meeting, students take turns sharing a "put up" for another classmate. 

When we say nice things to others, it is a Win-Win!

This Week in Room 8 (1/16 to 1/19)

ELA:
This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Identifying the correct pronoun to use in a given sentence
• Finding the evidence (answer) by going back in the text
• Restating the question in the answer
• Completing our writing for our non-fiction animal book- WOOHOO!
• Using context clues to determine meaning of an unknown word

I was ahead of the game last week with our Greek/Latin roots. We are going to continue to look at            -fect, fact-, and -fy (to make, build, cause )this week.

Your child has a link on his/her iPad called Read Theory. Read Theory is a great way for your child to practice reading a passage and answering specific questions for the passage. We will begin to utilize Read Theory at least twice a week at school. When we read, we work on going back in the text when we are answering the questions. Our goal for reading comprehension is at least 75%. I also like this resource because it is adaptive based on how well/poor your child does on the quiz. If you are working on this at home with your child, encourage him/her to read out loud to you (every few quizzes) and to go back in the text to find the answer. If your child gets stuck, you can suggest going back and "try rereading the second paragraph" to help your child pinpoint where the answer may be in the text. Please let me know if you have questions. 

Your child can also utilize Reading A-Z for reading and comprehension. I know in the past that students enjoyed recording and listening to themselves read. Please encourage this at home. 

Word Wall Words:

• us
• by
• those
• use
• fast

We accidentally added us/use last week. Oops!

Science:

We are continuing our unit on Light. 

MATH:

This week we will continue to reinforce the following skills:

• Comparing numbers to 120 and beyond (up to 1 million!) using <, =, and >
• Determining the value and the digit for a given number in place value (For Example, 465 What is the value of the underlined number? 60 What digit is in the hundred's place? 4)
• Reading and writing number words (five hundreds, three tens, four thousands, and seven ones = 4,537)
• Determining the value of the missing number in an equation (__ - 6 = 14 or 7 = 12 - __)

Khan Academy Mappers!!!!

This is an amazing resource based on your child's Winter Math MAP results. Khan Academy Mappers is a link that provides a specific plan for your child to practice based on the RIT scores for each component in the math assessment (Counting and Cardinality, Numbers in Base Ten, Geometry, and Operations in Algebraic Thinking). This will be a resource that we will use at school twice a week during math rotations. Please feel free to have your child work on this math website at home!