Last Week

We have been working on two digit addition and I decided this year I wanted the students to really understand what the 2 in 23 means. So before I wrote the all to familiar two digit addition sentence:

We did a lot of this:

I started making these Number Talk papers the second month of school. These papers do not take the place of our official daily Number Talk. You can read about that here.
The format is basically the same each week, and I can add or take out any skill I want to. It’s like my own customized spiral review. They work on this as soon as they are unpacked. Then they work on our daily story problem. Here are few of our February ones.

  
On Monday we will start to look at two digit addition sentences .



Here is a picture of a slide from our monthly calendar on the Promethean board. We always have a number of the day and the students have to find one more, one less, ten more and ten less. I added two more and two less this month. They are catching on and last week one of our math stations involved this skill.

Last Week:
Here are a few of  our math stations last week.




 

   

This Week

This week we dipped our little pinky toes in all things Christmas. On Monday we started the week with a new graph: Is Your Christmas Tree Up?

We have also started our Laura Numeroff mini lit unit. We read the book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies and completed a second graph.

We completed an observation sheet about the results of our graph.

     

We also completed  math and literacy activities.

Our phonics skill last week was long o. This was one of their “Have To” Work on Words activities they had to complete for the week. They chose a popcorn container and wrote three words belonging to that chunk on the popcorn pieces.

       

Here is a whole group math activity we completed this week.

I gave students popcorn containers with different numbers. I differentiated for students by giving those who could handle addition and subtraction using higher numbers. The students then wrote any combination of addition and subtraction sentences on their popcorn pieces.

     

     

Math Stations

Here’s a peek at our math stations this week.   

These students are completing Santa’s Helper Start With Get To.

More Math Stations

 

           

 

 

 

The Last Few Weeks

It’s been a busy week and past weekend! I can’t believe October is almost over! I didn’t get to all the things I wanted to…so owls, bats and spiders will be pushed to November. But here are a few things we’ve done this week and the previous week.
Pumpkin Life Cycle Writing
                   
We created torn paper pumpkins and then wrote about how a pumpkin seed grows into a pumpkin. The students had a ball tearing paper for their pumpkins.

The following ideas come right from Mrs. Carroll at The First Grade Parade. Thanks for the inspiration!
Today we described the outside of our pumpkin and completed descriptive sentences. Tomorrow we will cut open our class pumpkin and describe the inside.

    

Yesterday we read I Where’s  My Mummy and completed our mummy activity! Mrs. Carroll again!

                       
Last week during Work on Writing the students completed a Pumpkin Fact paper.



Math Stations this week:
Completing Hallo-weeny Number Order


These students are completing Start With Get To. This really helps with counting from any number.



These students are completing Hallo-Weeny Number Order on the Promethean board.

Spider Spider on the Promethean board.

Shake Those Beans for Ten

Completing our  Hop Along Halloween Frog skip counting (by 5s) activity.

Cows in the Barn for Eight.

Two weeks ago our Reading Street story was Get the Egg and last week was The Animal Park. Here are the writing sheets my students had to complete during work on writing.
                

Homework Calendars for the Week of October 10-14th

 

Click on the picture below to download homework calendars for this week.

Remember to check your child’s spelling list against the weekly newsletters that go home each Friday.

 

Click on the picture below to download extra reading logs.

This week:

This week we talked about Nouns. The students made a list of people, places and things at school. Then each student completed a page for our class book Nouns at School.

 

Apples Apples Apples: We also concluded our mini unit on apples. The students had a blast creating apple monsters and creating a cut and paste sentence about apples. We also completed a class graph on our favorite color apple.

             

Next week we will begin learning about the life cycle of pumpkins.

Reminders:

Homework is due every Friday, Spelling Homework is also due.

Please remember to sign and send back our Tuesday Take Home Folders.