Monday, December 7th 2009

Today was a very productive day! We started our day with something new to help our friends learn their sight words. Instead of calling our friends by their real names, we have given each of the students a new "name" that is one of the sight words our first grade friends are learning. So, our friends call each other "Miss said", Mr. What, etc. We will continue to practice these words until Christmas break, so ask your child what their "new" name is!

In the morning, we began with our morning meeting in Spanish. Our question of the day was: Do you have a dog? We learned that 18 of our friends did have dogs, and 19 of our friends do not. We practiced writing the words "mas" and "menos" underneath each of the words, to show which number was more, and which number was less.

Then we read our poems of the week. In English, the poem was How to Talk to your Snowman. The friends who read this poem learned about words like arctic, antarctic, freeezing, and igloo. Our friends who had their poem in Spanish read the poem Una Carta Importante, which was a letter to Santa Clause. Each group then drew a picture and wrote about the mental images that the words in the poem created for us.

During our practice of the Daily Five, each of our word study groups learned how to sort our word study words, and practiced putting them in those groups, saying the names of the words as we do it. Ask your child what their word study words are, and how they sorted them. We also continued to learn about the different parts of a friendly letter, as we wrote a class letter to different teachers in our district to help us practice for our Flat Stanley letters that we will be sending out very soon!


After lunch, we read our Read Aloud book about Flat Stanley, as we learn more about friendly letters as well. In Social STudies, our friends reviewed the different places in our community, and practiced saying "Yo veo...and describing the things we see on our way to school.

During math, the Green Gators learned how to make math mountains, and using them to help us find an unknown partner. We did a great job counting on from the bigger number, and drawing dots as we count to help us keep track. The Red RHinos practiced counting and adding numbers to 100.

We had a great day of learning today!