Our first grade classrooms have begun to transform as we prepare for Village Day, Friday March 8. This week, F104 was hard at work constructing the forest floor and understory layers of the rainforest, and were a flutter as they created Morpho butterflies, a distinct creature to the Amazon. F105 had a blast revering Chile’s largest fireworks display in South America and created picturesque images of firework displays using a chalk pastel method. Students began transforming the classroom by creating Chile’s national flower, the Chilean Bellflower. Stay tuned for more information regarding your class’ time for our Global Studies Village.
In language arts, our phonics professors studied how the suffix -y can make a long vowel sound at the end of a word. The students had fun as they sorted, wrote, and identified this spelling pattern in the books they read as well as utilized these words in their writing.
Our readers impressed us with their reading fluency. This week the students continued to learn strategies for solving harder words and practiced “crashing” word parts together, to do a slow check, as well as to sound out the word multiple ways in order for the word to make sense in the context of the sentence. In addition, our informational readers also gained a plethora of knowledge as they analyzed the pictures, captions, and vocabulary found within their books.
In writing, the students applied the strategies they are learning in reading to their informational book writing. They reflected on how they can best teach their readers the information found in their books. This week the students evaluated their illustrations to ensure they were detailed, labeled, and zoomed in; gave ample examples; and reviewed their work for organization and content. Our authors are completing informational books, as they added a table of contents, glossary, dedication page, and title page to their books this week. Please ask your child about what he or she is writing, and what information they are sharing with their audience.
In math, students continued to practice telling time in 15 minute intervals, counting groups of coins, and solving number stories. We compared the vocabulary terms weather and temperature. We discussed how these affect what we wear and the activities that we do. After listing several examples of different types of thermometers, the students practiced reading a thermometer in degrees Fahrenheit.
In language arts, our phonics professors studied how the suffix -y can make a long vowel sound at the end of a word. The students had fun as they sorted, wrote, and identified this spelling pattern in the books they read as well as utilized these words in their writing.
Our readers impressed us with their reading fluency. This week the students continued to learn strategies for solving harder words and practiced “crashing” word parts together, to do a slow check, as well as to sound out the word multiple ways in order for the word to make sense in the context of the sentence. In addition, our informational readers also gained a plethora of knowledge as they analyzed the pictures, captions, and vocabulary found within their books.
In writing, the students applied the strategies they are learning in reading to their informational book writing. They reflected on how they can best teach their readers the information found in their books. This week the students evaluated their illustrations to ensure they were detailed, labeled, and zoomed in; gave ample examples; and reviewed their work for organization and content. Our authors are completing informational books, as they added a table of contents, glossary, dedication page, and title page to their books this week. Please ask your child about what he or she is writing, and what information they are sharing with their audience.
In math, students continued to practice telling time in 15 minute intervals, counting groups of coins, and solving number stories. We compared the vocabulary terms weather and temperature. We discussed how these affect what we wear and the activities that we do. After listing several examples of different types of thermometers, the students practiced reading a thermometer in degrees Fahrenheit.