Weekly Wrap Up

I have said it before and I will say it again, it was a fantastic week here in the marvelous world of first grade. We had a fire drill on Thursday and I was thrilled with how well the class performed. In addition to that, we also had our fall wild walk on Wednesday, which was a bit wet, but still a whole lot of educational fun. A reminder that tonight is movie night and we will be screening Frozen (hold for applause). Please come on out and help support the Bryant/Pattengill PTO. I was at this event last year and it was a real blast. Unfortunately I will be unable to attend this year due to a prior commitment, but please come on out! I am sure most of you have probably NOT seen Frozen yet… We are also still collecting coins for the Pasta for Pennies drive. You have all been incredibly generous with this important fundraiser. The class collection box is as heavy as Thor’s hammer! We will be collecting coins through October 24th, so please keep sending them in if you are able.

Thank you and on to the highlights!!!



Math:


We covered quite a few subjects in math this week. If you are looking at the homelinks I send home throughout the week you know we are dealing with the change-to-more diagram. We also learned about the change-to-less diagram. Both of these diagrams are important scaffolding steps to introducing number models and number sentences. Fittingly enough, we also learned about number sentences this week. We will be taking our end of unit assessment next week, so I am looking forward to how well this information was internalized.


Science:


In science this week we theorized about living and nonliving things. We went on our fall wild walk and collected leaf and soil samples from our environment. We also observed birds, squirrels, muskrats and a host of insects that seemed particularly interested in us. The kids had some wet feet afterwards, but I am pleased we were able to get to this lesson.


Writing:


In writing this week we continued reinforcing beginning, middle and ending. However, I began to focus more on the beginning aspect of the story towards the end of the week. We also took a look at our past writing to see which pieces were completed and which pieces needed to be finished. We also talked more about sentence structure and capitalizations.




As always please let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns; until next week…all told.