Hello Amazing First Graders and Awesome First Grade Families!
Today was a great day in first grade! Once again, we were busy, busy, busy bees! Today we began centers. The kids learned the rules and procedures for working in centers. They did a great job of practicing the procedures and working hard!
After learning about centers, we got to do centers! There are five centers per week, so the children will do 1 center per day. After centers there is Self Selected Reading (SSR) time and I will also be reading with small groups of children. The 5 centers are:
1. Listening - The children listen to a book on tape. After listening, they fill out the name of the book, author and illustrator. Next, they write 3 things that happened in the story and draw a picture.
2. Science - This week our science center is based on the 5 senses. I have four jars with a food item in each jar. The jars are covered up. The kids smell the jars and guess what they are. After they guess, they write about what it is like to depend on sense of smell without sense of sight to identify the item.
3. Writing - The children are working on a Starfall activity. The activity focuses on letter formation, penmanship and comprehension.
4. Math - This week our math center focuses on pattern blocks with an integration of the five senses. The children have a chance to first explore the pattern blocks. After that, they partner up. The first partner makes a shape, but does not show it to the second partner. Then, the first partner must teach the second partner how to make the shape with words only.
5. Reading - The children read with me in small groups. We focus on reading strategies and comprehension.
This week we begin our science unit on The Five Senses. Today we learned about how our eyes help us. We did a fun activity to see what it would be like if we didn't have our eyes. The children worked in partners. The first partner closed his/her eyes, while his/her partner gave directions to draw a face. This helped us to think about how important our sense of sight is. This challenge caused us to use our sesnes of hearing and feeling. The kids had a lot of fun and everyone was glad to have their sight back! I have neat science experiment planned for each sense for the rest of the week. The children had a good time and they got to see that science is so much fun!
We practiced our new spelling words. The children came home with Rainbow Words for practice today and they are due tomorrow. This week we are working on the "am" family. Our making words activities will focus on spelling practice and "am" family practice.
Today in math we made an apple glyph. The kids did a great job following the multi-step directions and successfully completing the glyph. Parents - be sure to ask your child what the word data means and what they learned about their classmates from the glyphs. Tomorrow in math we will do continued pattern block exploration and we will learn how to collect data from the glyphs.
Today in computers we went on a neat science website for kids. We practiced listening/reading as we listened to information about the eye. If you'd like to see today's activity, please see the blog entry directly below this one, "Computers, 8/30."
Reminders for the week: Kids - please bring your yellow folder to school each day. It is YOUR responsibility to remember your homework and your folder! We have library on Friday. Please bring your book back by Friday.
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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