A visit from a Pilgrim

A Pilgrim Visit

This week started with Halloween festivities and ended with First graders jumping right into their study of Pilgrims, Plymouth Plantation and the First Thanksgiving.

Students were visited by "Constance" today! She was a cheerful and knowledgeable Pilgrim from Plymouth, Plantation 

We learned about how Pilgrim children played, what they did for work, how they dressed, what they ate and even discussed some important similarities and differences about our daily lives.

Students are quickly gaining knowledge of the contrast between past and present events, recognizing some key differences between our lives and those of the Pilgrims.

Please reference the brainpop video titled, "thanksgiving" to learn more about the content students are experiencing in 1L.  

Love,

Mrs. L

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! 

Students have been really excited for Halloween over the past few weeks! With it's arrival this Monday, we decided to celebrate by doing some super fun, curriculum connected activities.

We read Maurice Sendak's, Where the Wild Things Are. 

We practiced visualizing those terrible "wild things" and then tried to make our own monsters. We described them using adjectives with labels in our Monster diagrams too! 

Pumpkin Bats

We also had fun making "pumpkin bats" with some AMAZING parent volunteers this week.

These served as perfect models when we finished up our bat informational books this week too!

 

We synthesized information from multiple sources to create our very own bat teaching books.

 These nonfiction readers become nonfiction writers before my eyes!

Witch Visit

To finish off the Halloween day with a really exciting treat, we had a special visit from Mrs. Erwin! She flew into our room with her witches hat on, ready to read us a spooktaular story!

I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Halloween!

Love,

Mrs. L

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! 

Students have been really excited for Halloween over the past few weeks! With it's arrival this Monday, we decided to celebrate by doing some super fun, curriculum connected activities.

We read Maurice Sendak's, Where the Wild Things Are. 

We practiced visualizing those terrible "wild things" and then tried to make our own monsters. We described them using adjectives with labels in our Monster diagrams too! 

Pumpkin Bats

We also had fun making "pumpkin bats" with some AMAZING parent volunteers this week.

These served as perfect models when we finished up our bat informational books this week too!

 

We synthesized information from multiple sources to create our very own bat teaching books.

 These nonfiction readers become nonfiction writers before my eyes!

Witch Visit

To finish off the Halloween day with a really exciting treat, we had a special visit from Mrs. Erwin! She flew into our room with her witches hat on, ready to read us a spooktaular story!

I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Halloween!

Love,

Mrs. L

Nonfiction Unit of Study: BATS!

Bats!

1L is studying bats this week! We have been working hard to apply important reading and writing strategies to this nonfiction unit. 

We have learned that...

Nonfiction texts are about real life. 

Readers "read to learn" about topics from nonfiction texts. 

Nonfiction readers take a sneak peak even before they read a book or watch a video. 

Readers ask questions! 

Readers "stop and jot" down answers to questions they find on stickies or organizers.

Nonfiction readers learn more by chatting about a page with a friend 

Nonfiction readers and writers are word collectors.

Fiction can help to teach us about nonfiction topics too!

Reference these videos at home for some important review of bat vocabulary. This can be a homework choice! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3w9ZbRQIek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVoTMOorXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rYJMddEzg

You may also visit Brainpop this week, search "bats" to find a really informative video!

Love, 

Mrs. L

Temperature and the Thermometer

Temperature

First graders continued their Science work with Weather and the Seasons today!

Students are discussing temperature using general language : Cold, Hot, Warm, Chilly and Cool

AND

Learning how to measure temperature exactly using a thermometer and degrees fahrenheit. 

Please check out Brainpop and search "temperature" this week to find an important video we watched several times in class.

Students should use this as a homework choice the week. 

Love,

Mrs. L

School Pictures!

School Pictures!

Just look at those adorable little learners!

School pictures are in student's GO books today. Please make sure to keep an eye out! 

Love,

Mrs. L