Happy Friday! (Sept. 4th 2015)

Hello parents! We have had a busy day, here is a recap:

Language Arts - Differentiate between telling and question sentences, finish some workbook activities.

At 9 we had our visit from the friendly fire department who taught us about safety procedures we can know and follow during a fire. This included a presentation on CPR and house safety, a questions and answers portion, handling a fire truck water hose, how to escape a smoke filled room and escaping a building with the fireman's help.

Later we had our first Dance class! What a great class, the kids really enjoyed it and it seems we will have a dance surprise to share with you for Christmas, this practice will take place Evey Friday until the Christmas show starts.

Two assessments: Math Chapter 2 and Spelling, grades will be ready next week.

Homework: Students will be taking home reading logs, please read with them at least 20 minutes this weekend, you may read to them but preferably they will be reading to you. It can be their library book or home books, if you need extra books in the week let me know. 

Thats a wrap on our first month of school, its been great so far and we are so excited for the coming months! Happy Friday to everyone, enjoy your weekends!

-Ms. L.

PS. Here are some pictures of the fire drill you can enjoy:

Thursday Sept. 3rd 2015

Hello all, 

Here is what we did today:

Language Arts: Continued working on questions and sentences. Completed exercises in our English and Practice book. Created questions together and turned a few statement sentences into questions. 

Math: Review for our Chapter 2 test tomorrow, did exercises on the board, had another small in-class competition, this time our fastest math Champ was Zoey!

Reading: Worked on rhyming words and the short a sound (as in cat, hat and apple) completed some activities in our Phonics book and finally we read the book "Woolly" about a pink woolly mammoth. I encourage you to ask your child about this story and to maybe retell it to you in their own words.

Science: Continued caring for our plants, wrote down some observation about them, and read more pages in our science Unit.

Homework: Math practice sheets to help prepare students for chapter 2 math test, practice spelling words for spelling quiz.

I remind you that tomorrow will be the insect prevention spraying done on campus, please make sure to be on time to pick up kids at 4 o'clock. We will also be having our annual fire prevention activities tomorrow, and our first dance class to prepare for our Christmas show this year! 

Happy Thursday!

-Ms.L. 

Wednesday, Sept. 2nd 2015

Hello parents, hope you enjoyed pictures of kids having their Reading Buddies session, here is a quick recap of our day today:

Language Arts: More questions, construction of question sentences. Capital letters, question marks. Students differentiated between statements and question sentences. We completed pages from our Workbook Plus.

Math: Played a vertical addition sentences games, Luca was our fastest math champ! Congrats Luca! We also began reading word problems to solve addition problems.

Reading: Began and introduction to vowel sounds. We learned the difference between short a (ah, cat) and long a (ey, say). We looked at words with the short Aa in our Phonics book and looked for rhyming words that contained the short a sound. 
 
Social Studies: As a group project grade, kids got together in partners and made a Venn Diagram of what we have learned about Then and Now in Schools so far.

Science: Took care of our plants and re-listed ways we conduct an investigation. We wrote sentences to predict how our plants were going to do in the next few weeks. 

Homework MPB 2.8 

Have a great Wednesday, 
Ms. L.

Tuesday ECA Reading Buddies (Ms. Lopez & Ms. Johnson's class)

Reading Buddies yesterday with Grade 5 was a success! Here are some pictures of us in the library in our first Reading Buddies session:

Tuesday September 1st 2015

Hello all, today in grade 1 we:

Language Arts: Introduced W question words: what, who, when, where, why. Discussed the difference between when and where, it was a little difficult for some, but we will continue working on this through out the week. We should be finished with Unit 1 at the end of next week, first Language Arts assessment is scheduled for Friday September 11th. 

Math: Addition adding in vertical form.

Social studies: Continued discussing ideas from before and now. We wrote down questions and answers in our notebooks about tools from the past and newer ones we use now in our classrooms.

Science: Continued to care for our plants, made observations of how it was doing and continued to fill out our investigations worksheets. 

ECA: We will be having our "Reading Buddies" period today with Grade 5, this will entail the students getting set up in partners (one first grade and one 5th grade) and having the older kids read to the younger ones. This is something we will be doing throughout the year. 

Homework: MPB pg.2.8
Social Studies: Activity Book pg. 8

Today we gave prizes for Dojo Awards:

1st Place Jinny
2nd Place Jackie
3rd Place Nison
4th Place Luca and Julia

All the kids will reset to 0 again, and slowly accumulate until its time to cash out prizes once again!

Monday Aug.31st 2015 Week 4

Hello all, hope you enjoyed your weekend and were able to stay dry. We are starting Week 4, here is the recap of what we did in class today:

Reading: We discussed "The Big Trip" story further, we made a Venn diagram about Pig and Goat. We talked more about the long /e/ sounds and the different spelling ways to make the sound (e, ea, ee) We completed pages in our Journeys workbooks and copied our new spelling words:
read
mean
feet
eat
street
please

Math: Continue different addition strategies, now adding up to 8.

Social Studies: Discussed the difference between going to school before (in the old days) and now. We read about it in our social studies book and watch an interview with a 91 year old woman who talked about her memories of a small farm school from long ago. 

Homework: MPB 2.6 Ways to Make 7 and 8 / Write spelling words three times

I am sorry to inform you that the fumigation has been moved to this Friday so once again students must be picked up by 4 o'clock. Thanks again for your comprehension. 

-Ms. L.