Friday, December 20, 2013
Happy Holidays!
To all of the family members and friends of room 108, near and far: We wish you a save, happy, and peaceful holiday. Thank you for all the support in 2013. 2014, here we come!
Friday, December 13, 2013
Peace Week
The holidays have been on everyone's mind! As we chatted about the different holidays that take place at the end of the year we realized they all have a common theme of peace. After reading Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class by Eileen Spinelli, we decided to have our own peace week!
We focused on using kind words, lending a hand, giving compliments, and having a calm body.
We read The Peace Book by Todd Parr. A page in the book says Peace is watching it snow. We then read a book about the scientist William Bentley, who studied snowflakes. We decided to make our own snowflakes so it is always snowing (and peaceful) in our classroom!
We read the true story of Wangari Maathai called Wangari's Trees of Peace, and made our own peace tree with our wishes for a more peaceful world. Here are just a few of the messages that adorn the tree:
On Friday, we celebrated the end of our realistic fiction unit by meeting and sharing our stories as an entire first grade! Everyone was very excited to share their work with a new audience.
Have a peaceful weekend, everyone!
We focused on using kind words, lending a hand, giving compliments, and having a calm body.
We read The Peace Book by Todd Parr. A page in the book says Peace is watching it snow. We then read a book about the scientist William Bentley, who studied snowflakes. We decided to make our own snowflakes so it is always snowing (and peaceful) in our classroom!
We read the true story of Wangari Maathai called Wangari's Trees of Peace, and made our own peace tree with our wishes for a more peaceful world. Here are just a few of the messages that adorn the tree:
On Friday, we celebrated the end of our realistic fiction unit by meeting and sharing our stories as an entire first grade! Everyone was very excited to share their work with a new audience.
Have a peaceful weekend, everyone!
Friday, December 6, 2013
Updates from room 108
Here's what we've been up to lately!
In math we have been using all sorts of measurement tools! This week we practiced measuring to the nearest inch with rulers and tape measures. We measured objects in our classroom with rulers, parts of our bodies with tape measures, and even made a graph of the different heights in our classroom!
In writing we are taking our realistic fiction writing to the next level! Students have become punctuation police officers, patrolling the pages of their stories for proper punctuation!
We've also been working on word choice to take our stories from good to great to FANTASTIC! Here are some of the sparkle words spotted in student writing this week:
Our science experiment this week involved exploring the use of different sized screens to sort a river rock mixture. Students sorted their mixtures into these 5 groups with the help of 3 screens:
Large Pebbles
Small Pebbles
Large Gravel
Small Gravel
Sand
Take a look!:
On Friday, we started decorating our classroom for the winter holidays!
Happy weekend to everyone!
In math we have been using all sorts of measurement tools! This week we practiced measuring to the nearest inch with rulers and tape measures. We measured objects in our classroom with rulers, parts of our bodies with tape measures, and even made a graph of the different heights in our classroom!
In writing we are taking our realistic fiction writing to the next level! Students have become punctuation police officers, patrolling the pages of their stories for proper punctuation!
We've also been working on word choice to take our stories from good to great to FANTASTIC! Here are some of the sparkle words spotted in student writing this week:
Large Pebbles
Small Pebbles
Large Gravel
Small Gravel
Sand
Take a look!:
On Friday, we started decorating our classroom for the winter holidays!
Happy weekend to everyone!
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