This was another fun filled week in first grade! Some Upper Campus students shared with us what it means to Lead With Honor and we signed a banner to show that we are committed to being good citizens. We planted watermelon radishes, cucumbers, and mixed salad greens in our school garden beds. We also took a field trip to Busch Wildlife Sanctuary where we learned about many of Florida’s native animals and even had the opportunity to touch some of them! Our project based activity this week expanded upon the disguised turkeys that our first graders already created. Students had to imagine, plan, and design a container or environment for their turkeys that would allow them to safely ride out the holidays without being discovered.
In reading, students were contacted by the SSDA (Super Secret Detective Agency) and asked to join their team of top notch word detectives. This team’s mission is to do anything and everything it takes to solve and check tough words they encounter while reading. Students were issued word detective magnifying lenses to help them find tricky words, specifically "magic e" words, and challenged to write them in their detective notebooks.
In writing, our authors started a unit on informational writing with a ribbon cutting ceremony and began by studying the kind of writing they plan to make. Each student chose a topic they are an expert on and began writing step by step directions to guide their reader on how to do it. They applied previously learned writing skills and began adding skills specific to how-to writing.
In math, the students practiced identifying sums of 10, fact families, and doubles to solve addition and subtraction problems. We also represented numbers using base-ten blocks and practiced adding and subtracting groups of ten from a given number. We introduced time to the half hour and continued counting coin combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
In reading, students were contacted by the SSDA (Super Secret Detective Agency) and asked to join their team of top notch word detectives. This team’s mission is to do anything and everything it takes to solve and check tough words they encounter while reading. Students were issued word detective magnifying lenses to help them find tricky words, specifically "magic e" words, and challenged to write them in their detective notebooks.
In writing, our authors started a unit on informational writing with a ribbon cutting ceremony and began by studying the kind of writing they plan to make. Each student chose a topic they are an expert on and began writing step by step directions to guide their reader on how to do it. They applied previously learned writing skills and began adding skills specific to how-to writing.
In math, the students practiced identifying sums of 10, fact families, and doubles to solve addition and subtraction problems. We also represented numbers using base-ten blocks and practiced adding and subtracting groups of ten from a given number. We introduced time to the half hour and continued counting coin combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes.