This Week in Room 8 (3/12 to 3/16)

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

• substituting final sounds in words
• long u spelled oo, ue, u_e, ew, u
• review adding endings to words (-ed, -ing, -er, -est)
• review contractions

Word Wall Words:

• kind
• fall
• carry
• small
• own

Writing:

This week we will be working on setting out to write a series. 

We will be learning how to do the following:

• use the same pretend characters from our first stories 
• to start a new day or night in each story
• have things happen in the same place
• include the same friend, pet, brother, sister
• write different adventures

Comprehension:

We will be taking a different perspective of analyzing the characters in the story by working on the following skills:

• seeing the characters in the scenes of their stories
• paying special attention to the world of their character by noticing tiny details of the scenes
• paying attention to the entire story in an effort to understand "big happenings" and how these big events impact the central message and/or the lessons in their stories.
• paying attention to comprehend characters by noting the predictable patterns of series books

MATH:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• fractions
• continued 2-D and 3-D skill practice
• adding and subtracting with/without regrouping
• solving and explaining strategies with word problems

SCIENCE:

We will be taking a look and learning more about rainbows this week!

LEADER IN ME:

We are gearing up for our student 1st Grade Leadership Assembly on Wednesday. Please remember to have your child wear pajamas to school on Wednesday.

Did you know that Kipling has collected 165 pajama/book sets for the Pajama Program? This is amazing! Thank you so much for your generous donations. If you are still looking to donate, you can turn in new pajamas/books with your child through Monday, March 19th.

Last Week in Pictures

We enjoyed having a guest reader from 4th grade.

This week we were busy learning about how characters can change emotions during a story.

We discovered that if we know what the character is feeling it helps us to understand the story better and make better predictions about what could happen next.

We began by reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Students made observations about how William's emotions changed during the story.

We wanted to note the emotion and what event made him feel that way.

Then, we took selfies for each of the emotions.

Later in the week, students had a choice of what book to do the character emotion change on.

They listened to the story on Seesaw and recorded their observations.

They made emotion faces to track the changes.

Finally, they posted their picture of the timeline on Seesaw with a summary of the character changes.

In the beginning, ___ felt ____ because _____.

In the middle, __ felt ___ because ____.

At the end, ____ felt ____ because _____.

We touched base with our accountability partners to see how we are working towards our 

W.I.G.s  (Wildly Important Goals).

We attended the 2nd Grade Music Show.

It was full of COLOR!

Great job, 2nd graders!

Some 1st graders were busy at recess practicing our "Kindness is a Muscle" song that we will be singing for the 1st Grade Leadership Assembly on Wednesday.

Mr. Victor Pacini came to Kipling today to teach kids about being safe from abuse.

Be sure to ask your child about the lessons that Mr. Victor taught us!

WOOHOO, Cacioppo Crew!

We have read 1,300 books on Epic!

Can we make it to 2,000 by the end of the school year?

OH YEAH!

Happy 120th day of 1st Grade!

We are growing our brains everyday and building friendships along the way!

We enjoyed our Guest Reader today!

This Week in Room 8 (3/6 to 3/9)

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

• using adjectives to compare
• dropping the "e" before adding "ing" in present verbs (smile = smiling)
• review identifying adjectives, verbs, and nouns

Word Wall Words:

• full
• done
• light
• pick
• hurt

As we read, we are working on becoming character experts to deepen our understanding of a story. We will be doing this by exploring the following:

• how a character changes emotions throughout a story
• comparing and contrasting the experiences/emotions of different characters in different stories

MATH:

This week we will work on the following skills:

• understanding fractions as equal shares
• 3-D shape attributes

Key Vocabulary for Math:

Critical Terms:

Rectangular prism, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, Hour, Minute, Trapezoid, Half circle, Quarter circle, Halves, Fourths, Quarters, Half of, Fourth of, Quarter of, Equal shares

Supplemental Terms:

Triangle, Circle, Square, Rectangle, Hexagon, Cube, Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Flat, Solid

SCIENCE:

This week we will be wrapping up our Light and Sound Unit!

Leader in Me:

This week we will be preparing for the 1st Grade assembly next week on kindness. We will continue to look at our W.I.G.s (Wildly Important Goals) that we created last week. We will look at the steps we need to take to reach our goals, encourage one another to make choices that help us reach our goals, and celebrate our accomplishments along the way!

Last Week in Pictures!

Our leader is sharing her poster with the class.

Our class book came! I am just SO proud of our class. We did some terrific research and hard work to put this book together. I hope you all enjoyed it!

I can't wait to see these daffodils bloom!

Our Guest Reader came to read a story to the class.

We love hearing stories from visitors!

We learned about bus safety. Toby the Tire came to share ways to be safe around buses.

We did a reflection on Seesaw for our Virtual Reality Geometry is Everywhere activity.

Mrs. Buch came down to check out our book. She was extremely impressed with all of the details we added to our animal research!

We took some time to show Mrs. Buch the Virtual Reality we just explored. 

She loved how we could explore a place without physically being there.

It is Wacky Wednesday! We wore silly socks and outfits as we began to explore and learn more about Dr. Seuss!

We did a graphing activity on our crazy socks. We shared our learning with you on Seesaw!

We read a biography on Dr. Seuss and worked to answer comprehension questions.

We realized that we need to check and make sure we answer the "Why?" in the questions.

First Graders worked on a "Kindness Quilt" that we will have on display next Wednesday for our assembly.

Our leader is sharing her adventures with Purple Hoser!

We enjoyed listening to our leader read a book from home to the class.

This Week in Room 8 (2/26 to 3/2)

ELA

This week we continue to read about different leaders and good citizens. We are learning how to compare and contrast characters and their experiences in different texts. We will also be working on the following skills:

Phonics:

• long u (oo, eu, u_e, ew, u)
• long o (oe, oa, ow)
• long i (igh, y, ie)
• suffixes (-ful and -ly)

Grammar:

We will continue to work on gaining a better understanding of adjectives and how to incorporate more adjectives in our writing.

Word Wall Words:

• better
• hold
• only
• drink
• warm

Root Words:

-polis, polit-, and poli- means city, citizen, and government

Reading:

We will be reading non-fiction text as we continue reading about strong leaders. We will identify and make connections of characteristics of strong leaders.

Writing:

We are beginning our new unit in writing. For the next several weeks, students will be working on writing realistic fiction. This week we will focus on how fiction writers do a lot of pretending. They image a pretend character, describe who they are, where they are, and how to get their character in and out of trouble!

Math:

Students will be working on the following skills:

• comparing and contrasting 2D shapes
• identifying and comparing 3D shapes
• continued work and practice on place value, graphing, and word problems

Science:

We will continue to work with light and sound. We will see if we can send secret messages using only light!

Leader in Me:

We will continue to prepare for our Kindness Assembly for March. In addition, we will continue to learn more about Habit 8 (finding our voice)

Cacioppo Crew... Class Reviews!

We have been working hard on writing reviews. Please check out some of our favorite games, restaurants, snacks, apps, and more!

Lego Avengers
By: Nishchal
Do you like video games? If yes try out Lego Avengers on the X Box one. I give Lego Avenger a 1,000 stars because you move your body to play the game with the controller. Everybody will like this game because when you are Hulk you get to smash things. You should play Lego Avengers!

Minecraft
By: Henry
Do you like video games? You should play Minecraft. You can make your house and get pets. You can swim in water and dig holes. You can get lights and crystals. The crystals are good because they are rare. They help you make the house. The lights are blocks. They help you see and to make your house. I think kids six to twelve would like it. I give this 8,000 stars.

Minecraft Mini Games
By: Nathan
Do you like to play Minecraft? You would like Mini Games because if you like Minecraft. You can play Mini Games. It is different than Minecraft because you can glide and you can battle your friends and family. I recommend this game for people that like Minecraft. I think kids at Kipling would like Minecraft Mini Games. I give it 10, 000 stars.

Minecraft
By: Nolan
Do you like to play Minecraft? Minecraft is a game with secret portals. You can kill pigs, horses, and cows. You can also build really tall buildings and really small buildings. You can also go on top of really high buildings with your friends and family. If you have enough gold, you can buy torches. And if you have a lot of gold you can buy pets. I love this game. I give this game 5,000 stars. I think everyone in the entire world would like this game.

Sugar Snap Peas and Cucumbers
By: Liam
Do you like fresh? I want to explain a food that I was eating for snack. Sugar snap peas and cucumbers! It is so good. The sugar snap peas taste good and make me more hungry. It is my favorite snack. My mom gives it to me sometimes.

Magic Tree House
By Anastasia
Do you like to read chapter books? If you do I think you will like Magic Tree House books because there are ten chapters of the book. Another reason is there are lots of adventures that Jack and Annie go on. Jack and Annie are people who find this tree house that belongs to Morgan. My last reason is that there are 28 Morgan ones and lots more Merlin ones. I give it 1,000 stars. I think you will like this book.

Dude Perfect
By: Maxwell
Do you like Dude Perfect? If you don't like it you are in luck or do not know what it is I will tell you what it is. They do really epic trick shots. They are in Guinness World Records 2018. For one of the records they were standing on a really high building in Texas. Two of them were standing right by the basketball hoop and they threw it off the building to make it in the basketball hoop on the ground. The basketball went in. I think that everyone in the entire world would like to watch these videos and the show on Nickelodeon. I give it 10 million stars.

Minecraft
By: Reed
Do you like digging and swimming? You will like Minecraft. On it you can go on adventures to the woods. You can find different animals. I recommend this game for people who like Minecraft.

Candyland
By: Aratrika
Do you like candy? Then get the game Candyland. All you have to do is pick a gingerbread and put it on the arrow that says start. Then you shuffle the cards and then put them down. And then you pick a card if you get a color you go on the one that it is there. First if you get a card with the same color but two of the same color then you go two times. By any chance you get a candy you go on that candy. But if the candy is behind you you go backwards.

McDonalds
By: Riley
Do you like chocolate milk, french fries, or chicken nuggets? You should go to McDonalds. One reason is you can get the McDonald's free app and if you have a lot of toys good but you might want to give away some to other people. My next reason is you get the toy in your order and you had to dig to find the toy and the part is you can shove it in your mouth and you can drink and you can laugh. I think McDonalds is the best.

Star Wars
By: Max N.
Do you like movies? Yes or no. I prefer Star Wars The Last Jedi because it has action, cool machines, and cary parts. Do not watch it in 3D because it's the same without 3D. There is one confusing part in the movie. I would give a 7 billion lite savers!

Domino's Pizza
By: Miles
Do you like pizza? I like Domino's because the pizza is yummy. I love the pizza. I want to eat Domino's Pizza now. They make the pizza the best. I give it 1,000,000 stars. Thank you Domino's!

Subway
By: Daniel
Do you like sandwiches? I recommend families go to Subway because they have the meatball sandwich. Have you ever went to Subway? They also have soup and a kid's menu comes with a toy. I give it 5 stars!

Chuck E Cheese
By: Layla
Do you like games? I recommend Chuck E Cheese for kids ages 5 and up. I think it is the best for kids because it has lots and lots of games. It also has a huge mouse. It has tons and tons of prizes. It has candy, whistles, stamps, and more. You can win 100 tickets. You also can have a party there. I give it 100,000 stars!

Banana Bread
By: Sadie
Hi. If you like bread you should try banana bread. It sometimes has chocolate chips in it. It is so good! It tastes like cake bottom sometimes. I give it 10 stars exactly. It is really easy to bake. It has good batter. It especially tastes good when you eat it with the chocolate chips. It is a good treat to make for family and friends. Make sure you make it when the bananas are brown, but not too brown. It is soft and easy to cut up. I hope you like it.

McDonalds
By: Livia
I recommend the restaurant McDonalds. Do you like chicken nuggets and yogurt? If so you should go to McDonalds. One reason is I love their chicken nuggets and honey mustard. Another reason is their yogurt. It is my favorite yogurt. My last reason is they give you fun toys. My favorite toy they have is the emoji key chain.

Last Week in Pictures!

We learned that leaders help others lead!

We worked on reading following the descriptions given in a poem called 

"Green Giant" by Jack Prelutsky.

We used the app called Educreations to design our giant.

Afterwards, we read our poem to our families on Seesaw!

We used a new app called Discovery Education to watch videos on sound.

Our 5th grade buddies from Mrs. Jorjorian's class taught us about big rocks and small rocks.

We learned that our big rocks are what's most important in our life. We have to take time to get our big rocks taken care of before we have time for the little rocks that are less important.

We had a friend from 4th grade read to the class for a reward from lunch.

It is always great to have old friends come back to visit!

We love hearing stories from our classmates!

One of our math challenges was to compose shapes using different pattern blocks.

Be sure to check out your child's Pic Collage on Seesaw.

We used our creativity to show what we know about different 2D shapes.

We had to pick a shape and write down different attributes like number of sides, types of lines, and length of the sides. We then made a video on Telestory, Toontastic, or Seesaw to share what we know!

We filled our Put Up Jar!

We chose to watch a movie here at school!

Friends synergized after buddy reading to creatively share what book they read, a summary of the book, and their favorite parts. It was great watching the class work together, problem solve, and CREATE!