November 28th-December 4th

Learning how to write "how to" books.

Hello!

I hope everyone had a great break last week. Below are some important dates:

December 15th at 11:00 Gingerbread House Decorating-We invite all parents to come in and help us decorate our houses!
December 19th-January 3rd- Winter Break
February 2nd at 11:00 Heroes Play (will probably be in the middle school black box like our ocean play)
February 7th- Field Trip to the Children's Theatre (If we have more volunteers than slots available then I will draw names out of a hat)
May 4th at 11:00 Artist Play
Sometime during the week of May 22nd- Field Trip to Hiddenite Mine
May 30th- Author's Tea (in our classroom we will reveal our bare books)

This week we started studying two new heroes. We are learning about the Wright brothers! We learned that hard work and determination can produce great results. We rotated through 4 main centers:

1. Create a candy airplane and write a step by step direction sheet to go along with it. This month's writing theme is "how-to" so we introduced this concept through the center.
2. Illustrate the Wright Brothers fact book and read it to an adult.
3. Create a time line of Orville and Wilbur's lives. Side note: The kids loved the time line about Eleanor and begged for another one! We did not have time to make one for Helen Keller so we decided to create another one for this week. We did a large one as a class and then some kiddos chose to do an individual one as well.
4. Using what you know about the science behind flying (from what we read), create your own air plane. It can be made from any material and can be any size. Have an airplane flying contest and see who's can fly the farthest.

Writing:

This month's writing theme is writing how-to books. Using words like "first and then, next" etc.

Reader's Workshop:

Everyone received their leveled reader this week. We focused on learning about plural words. We learned how to make a word go from a singular word to a plural word. Many times you can just add an "s" to the end of a word to make it plural. Of course there are exceptions and other rules but for first grade we won't go into toooo many of those details. :)

Math Workshop:

We played two new math games this week:

Roll and record a shape: Roll the 2-D shape cube, spin the spinner. Color in that many shapes on your recording sheet,

Number Bond Matching: Math the answer to the two numbers that either add to that number or subtract to equal that number.

Science :

Ms. Rachel came a couple weeks ago to do Sci Fri (thank you!!) and we made play dough color wheels with her. It was awesome! The kids loved mixing different colors.

A quick conversation that I loved this week...

Student 1: I wish we could stay in Mrs. Schultz and Ms. Alicia's class forever.

Student 2: It will be ok. We can go visit.

Student 1: It won't be the same.

Students 2: Yeah but we will have all the happy memories.

Isn't that the sweetest? Love those cute moments that happen each day and just had to share.

Have a restful weekend and write those dates down!
Mrs. Schultz