Hello families! What a beautiful week we have had. We have been rushing to get to recess each day as the energy is through the roof with all this pretty weather. ;)
Several Announcements:
-Scholastic orders due tomorrow! Remember that everything is done online now.
-Hot lunch session four orders are due MARCH 17TH!
-Bring your leprechaun traps next week on Saint Patrick's Day! Hope we catch him this year.
-Bare Book passion project materials are due tomorrow! I know there is a lot going on, so do your best but please do not worry if it is not 100% together by tomorrow morning.
-Math Night March 18th...please come join us! Math is one of our favorite times of the day so we would love for you to come see how it's done.
-Mark your calendars for April 30th. We will be having a performance that day! Time TBD. The first grade team is still working out all the kinks for details, but just know this is the date. The time will most likely be 11:00, but stay tuned!
Thematic Centers:
We have been finishing Renoir as there are several kids who are still working on their projects but we have also started studying Matisse. These artists are too cool! Matisse has some beautiful pieces. We also learned that he met Picasso! We cannot wait for everyone to come in and see all of our artwork. Sorry to make you wait! We rotated through 4 centers:
1. Create a replica of Matisse's famous Goldfish painting. We used plastic wrap to help create the illusion of a fish bowl.
2. Create a flower vase using paint, tissue paper and regular paper for the background if you choose. Make sure to divide your paper into the floor and ceiling and use different patterns on the left side of the paper and the right. Just as Matisse often did!
3. Create your own version of the "Dancing Ladies" painting using the template that is given to you.
4. Complete a Matisse word search learning about different vocabulary words related to Matisse!
Reader's Workshop:
We have been learning about non fiction text and different features of this type of reading and writing. We have compared and contrasted non fiction versus fiction, practiced labeling Mrs. Schultz and we even read a non fiction book and got to sticky note the important facts. We are really enjoying learning about the many features non fiction books offer! We will also continue this next week. We are working on handwriting without tears books each day as well! Our letter formations and pencil grips continue to improve.
Our word study words this week are: ask, let, then, gas, read, for, yes, door, now and lot. Word study phonogram review and rules are: ea has three sounds (like in the word beat, bread, break), ing has one sound (like in the word sing), oo has two sounds (like in the word food and book), ow has two sounds (like in the word plow and snow), or has one sound (like in the word torn), the has two sounds (th unvoiced like in the word think and th voiced like in the word than), o has four sounds (like in the words got, go, to, love), ou has four sounds (like in the words our, fourth, tour and famous) and ee has one sound (like in the word tree).
We have really been more conscious of working in our day books too! We have been gluing fun songs and poems in each day so that we have a neat collection at the end of the year.
Math Workshop:
We have been reviewing time to the hour and half hour. We also started working with place value. Right now we are working with tens and ones. For children that need a challenge we have been working with the hundreds place and thousands place. We played three new games this week. We played a place value matching game where you matched the number to the base ten blocks. We also played Star War. You draw two numbers and arrange them to make the biggest number. The person with the highest number gets to keep all four cards. The winner ends up with the entire deck! We also played a place value adding game where you were adding tens and ones that were in the shapes of marshmallows. Yum!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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