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October in the Classroom

Our Week!

It's been busy in room 119!  We are really challenging ourselves to reach new goals and discover new learning all day!  Here's a peek into our room! 
{You may want to grab a snack and a drink!  I have so much to share!}

Read to Someone time during our reader's workshop.

Read to Self during reader's workshop

We began taking home our book bags.  Please practice your book and sight words when you see it come home!  Book bag will come home.  Read the same story more than once.  This helps build fluency, accuracy, and expression.

  Some of our word work choices

 

  Last week's spelling pattern was short vowel followed by double consonant!  It wasn't easy, but we worked hard!

 President Bob (our class pet) enjoyed the Fair this weekend in case you have been wondering about his adventures!!!  He has really gotten around town!

 In guided math, my students worked on their first fact family. We also worked on addition and subtraction too!

 Check out this smartie putting the biggest number last for addition right away!!! Be still my beating heart.

 We learned the commutative property of addition while exploring number relationships.

 We worked on descriptive words for writing.

  After watching a brain pop jr about energy students generated this list of items that have or give energy.  As we learn about it we will revisit and see if we can add or if we had misconceptions.  We have studied light energy, heat energy, and sound energy!  Our science journal has another new experiment in it too!

Have I mentioned how crazy I am about this class of first graders?  They are the best!!

Learning Launch!

This week has been what I feel is best described as the learning launch!  No longer am I just teaching procedures and expectations, but now I am adding that layer of academic challenges to really push my students to launch into a new year of learning. 

The students are into the routine of working first thing in the morning right up until morning announcements.  They want to keep working in their binders after announcements too, but we try to wrap it up at that point.

This week we reached 16 minutes for our reading stamina and we have launched all 5 Reader's Workshop choices!  I was able to pull reading groups today!  Hip Hip Hooray!  Six days ago I was afraid that we were not going to make it to this point! Amazing what can happen in a short amount of time in first grade! 

 Another learning launch has been our writer's workshop.  After we wrote three days this week, we had an author's sharing around the rug.  I didn't take pictures of the students sharing this time  They passed the microphone and shared one piece from their folder.  It was neat to watch them think about and choose their favorite piece to share. 

 Since we are authors now, it was time for our Special Delivery to arrive in our classroom! Boy was this exciting! 

 It was a tight election, but it looks like our class pet's name is President Bob.  We are all in love with him!  (It's so fitting for a little bobcat!!!)

 President Bob went home and has already come back with stories to tell...

  For math this week, we have been working on tallying, graphing, and analyzing as well as comparing numbers.  I snapped these pictures during our whole group lesson and then realized they are upside down to a normal person....As teachers our whole day is upside down like this!

 Math tub time is always a favorite!

  This activity was an interview, tally, and graph. 

  To practice for our first spelling test, I grabbed these short a apples and gave my students each a white board.  I gave each word in the format that I will give it tomorrow on the test. They wrote it on their whiteboards.  We went over it by placing the apple on the tree and checking our work.  I was told I was the best teacher in the world and that spelling tests are SO FUN! 

 Another Fantastic Week!