Second week of homework done and they all are continuing to do a great job! It was great checking all of their homework and seeing the variety and creativity. I am impressed by the number of students that are challenging themselves and I also loved reading some of the stories they have written! The homework will be coming back home in their Green Go Home Folders along with their homework for this week and info about Run For the Arts.
Our focus for writing this week was understanding, identifying and writing complete sentences. We discussed the 4 things you need for a complete sentence: uppercase at the beginning, period at the end, who/what (subject) and action (predicate). We color coded each of the 4 parts of a complete sentence and ended up with some rainbow sentences! Thank goodness we have the first grade period police, they helped solve some serious incomplete sentence crimes this week :)
In math we focused a lot on story problems. We discussed the importance of figuring out what the problem is asking before trying to figure out the answer. The main focus has been addition and subtraction. After working through these story problems as a class, the students also completed their first independent math check in. These check-ins allow me to better understand the students' thinking and number sense and gauge my instruction and individual support. I am extremely proud of the Room 112 mathematicians and excited to keep developing their strategies for solving addition and subtraction!
Reminders:
9/29 -- Dough for Dollars @ Pizzacato
9/30 -- Run for the Arts pledge forms DUE
10/2 -- Run for the Arts @ 10:15am
*Info will be going home tomorrow, but Room 112 will be wearing blue shirts (any shade) on the day of the run.
Here are some photos from the week....
I didn't see the photo of the conferences?
ReplyDeleteThe photo of the conference schedule is on the "In the Classroom" page (the tab right next to the "Home" page).
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