March 28th, 2010
Hello First Grade Families!
Happy Spring to all! The students have been keeping track of all of our lamb and lion days. It looks like March will go out like a lion. We will see if our prediction is correct. March has been a busy month academically. We finished Theme 4 in Storytown and will be moving on to Theme 5...Where We Live. In literacy, we continue to review Characters, Setting, Beginning, Middle, and End. We will also be talking about cause and effect, as well as problem and solution. These are skills that will be reviewed throughout the year and focused on in our reading groups. The children have been doing a terrific job retelling the stories we have read. Keep up the great work!
It was wonderful to have Mrs. Senier come in and share a literacy activity with us. She read There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick. The extension activity was super! The children did a think,pair & share to retell the story using story props (provided by Mrs. Senier). They also re-read the story in a pocket chart. It was a wonderful hands on activity, As you may remember, your child brought home a chick, egg, straw,candy, etc. I am sure they can retell the story @ home. Thank you Mrs. Senier for sharing your talent of teaching with us!
I have been very impressed with our reading and writing development. To Welcome Spring The children created a Spring acrostic poem. The ideas were great...some children mentioned Playing outside, flowers growing and ice cream at Socs,yum! These poems are displayed outside our classroom.
Mathematically, we continue to review our facts to 12. The children have been creating fact families to 12 and beyond, as well as working with dominoes to make fact families. We also have been working in groups to solve problems. The children have been identifying key words in problems to help them complete the number sentence...how many in all? how many are left? how many join? Great job boys nad girls! They continue to enjoy different math games introduced. Let's Make a Bunny is a popular choice! This week we will be working on solid figures and plane shapes. We will be making many math connections to literature. Our first book we will read is called The Greedy Triangle. The story talks about a triangle who is just not happy being a triangle, so he visits the shape shifter and makes many requests to become a
different shape.
Please stay tuned for news about Opening Day. The Kindergarten and First Grade will be celebrating Opening Day this Thursday April 1st, 2010. We are looking forward to seeing all our Red Sox fans in their favorite Red Sox attire. Thank you in advance to the Hitchman Family for providing hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as the hot dog stand we have seen on Yawkey Way! We are so lucky!
Have a super week!
Jennifer Flynn
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
March 13,2010
Hello First Grade Families!
The month of march is off to a great start. This week we had lots of fun learning about the Main Idea of a story, as well as practicing our fluency. We had lots of discussion in our reading groups about what good readers do? The children enjoyed reading and listening to the story One More Friend. We also learned a new friends poem and made our own friend acrostic poem. Mrs. Fiore displayed the poems in our Hall of Fame. Thank you Mrs. Fiore! Great work boys and girls!
We continued using the smartborad this week. The children enjoyed the new songs that were downloaded......kids just wanna have fun & letter aerobics were favorites! Miss. Torrey also reviewed odd and even numbers, as well as doubles & doubles plus one (these skills will be reviewed on Monday). She introduced us to a doubles song with hand motions,so fun! This coming week...we are adding three numbers and reviewing our subtraction & addition facts to 12. Please practice at home. The math games are a continued success. We love Snails Pace, as well as using cards to count on etc.
A big THANKS to all of our Mystery Readers! I am so pleased with the overwhelming sign ups. All our Fridays are taken, so I am thinking we are going to have to allow other times for Mystery Readers. Please let me know if you haven't had an opportunity to come in and read?
We are looking forward to celebrating St. Patrick's Day! I am sure you may have heard that we planted grass seed. Do you think Lucky's hair will gorw? Keep your fingers crossed! This week we will be talking about why we are so lucky, as well as playing roll a leprechaun & maybe making a St. Patrick's Day treat? We also will be making shamrock pins with Mrs. Fiore...fun,fun! Thanks in advance to our room parents and all of you who continue to go above and beyond for your children. Hooray for you!
Don't forget the clocks this weekend... "Spring Forward"
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Mrs. Flynn
Hello First Grade Families!
The month of march is off to a great start. This week we had lots of fun learning about the Main Idea of a story, as well as practicing our fluency. We had lots of discussion in our reading groups about what good readers do? The children enjoyed reading and listening to the story One More Friend. We also learned a new friends poem and made our own friend acrostic poem. Mrs. Fiore displayed the poems in our Hall of Fame. Thank you Mrs. Fiore! Great work boys and girls!
We continued using the smartborad this week. The children enjoyed the new songs that were downloaded......kids just wanna have fun & letter aerobics were favorites! Miss. Torrey also reviewed odd and even numbers, as well as doubles & doubles plus one (these skills will be reviewed on Monday). She introduced us to a doubles song with hand motions,so fun! This coming week...we are adding three numbers and reviewing our subtraction & addition facts to 12. Please practice at home. The math games are a continued success. We love Snails Pace, as well as using cards to count on etc.
A big THANKS to all of our Mystery Readers! I am so pleased with the overwhelming sign ups. All our Fridays are taken, so I am thinking we are going to have to allow other times for Mystery Readers. Please let me know if you haven't had an opportunity to come in and read?
We are looking forward to celebrating St. Patrick's Day! I am sure you may have heard that we planted grass seed. Do you think Lucky's hair will gorw? Keep your fingers crossed! This week we will be talking about why we are so lucky, as well as playing roll a leprechaun & maybe making a St. Patrick's Day treat? We also will be making shamrock pins with Mrs. Fiore...fun,fun! Thanks in advance to our room parents and all of you who continue to go above and beyond for your children. Hooray for you!
Don't forget the clocks this weekend... "Spring Forward"
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Mrs. Flynn
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Hello Parents!
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! The first graders had a super week celebrating Dr. Seuss' 106th Birthday. Mrs. Ruth Clay was our community reader. She talked to us about the importance of health and wellness. Mrs. Clay works at the City Hall. The children made a book thanking her for the books she read...My Garden and Harry the Dirty Dog (both books were donated to the library) Thank you! We also made Dr. Seuss hats out of model magic, as well as creating our own class book And to think that I Saw it at Hoover School. We made many connections to Dr. Seuss' first book And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry St. We hope you enjoyed seeing your child's page sent home. Great job boys and girls!
We are also moving along in reading. This week we learned about a biography. Ask your child if they know what a biography is? We read about Tomas Rivera. We also talked about the sequence in a story...what comes first, next, then and last. Please review this at home when you are reading with your child. Also, our phonics skill was introducing digraphs qu and wh. The kids had lots of fun decorating qu crowns. We had a friendship ceremony and spoke about how q and u are very good friends, even when they quarrel they apologize and stay friends. We hope you enjoyed hearing about qu at home. Very exciting!
The children have been working hard learning all about odd and even numbers, as well as finding number patterns on a hundred chart. You can review this @ home too. Skip counting is always fun! Miss. Torrey showed us many number patterns on the smartboard. We had fun splatting many different colors of paint on each number pattern. The kids were also introduced to a new math game this week called A Snail's Pace. It is great to see them working so well with their peers. We will be moving on this week, practicing our addition and subtraction facts to 12 (ordinal numbers and using a number line). Practice, practice!
We are looking forward to many more "lamb" days ahead...Enjoy your week!
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! The first graders had a super week celebrating Dr. Seuss' 106th Birthday. Mrs. Ruth Clay was our community reader. She talked to us about the importance of health and wellness. Mrs. Clay works at the City Hall. The children made a book thanking her for the books she read...My Garden and Harry the Dirty Dog (both books were donated to the library) Thank you! We also made Dr. Seuss hats out of model magic, as well as creating our own class book And to think that I Saw it at Hoover School. We made many connections to Dr. Seuss' first book And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry St. We hope you enjoyed seeing your child's page sent home. Great job boys and girls!
We are also moving along in reading. This week we learned about a biography. Ask your child if they know what a biography is? We read about Tomas Rivera. We also talked about the sequence in a story...what comes first, next, then and last. Please review this at home when you are reading with your child. Also, our phonics skill was introducing digraphs qu and wh. The kids had lots of fun decorating qu crowns. We had a friendship ceremony and spoke about how q and u are very good friends, even when they quarrel they apologize and stay friends. We hope you enjoyed hearing about qu at home. Very exciting!
The children have been working hard learning all about odd and even numbers, as well as finding number patterns on a hundred chart. You can review this @ home too. Skip counting is always fun! Miss. Torrey showed us many number patterns on the smartboard. We had fun splatting many different colors of paint on each number pattern. The kids were also introduced to a new math game this week called A Snail's Pace. It is great to see them working so well with their peers. We will be moving on this week, practicing our addition and subtraction facts to 12 (ordinal numbers and using a number line). Practice, practice!
We are looking forward to many more "lamb" days ahead...Enjoy your week!
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