First grade is "snow" much fun!

This week our stations will center around snowmen activities. The children will design a snowman and then write a descriptive piece on the snowman that they created. Ask your child about their new station parnter. We switched partners last week. We will begin recording the weather and temperature in a weather journal this week. We have already been watching the temperature closely each day last week and looking at how it changes during the day. Ask your child why the temperature changes as the day progresses. The children have been busy learning phonics rules. Last week we worked on adding plural s and es to words. This week we will continue to practice that concept and work on adding ing to words as well. I am so impressed by the readers in our classroom! Keep up the good work at home. Stress to your child to read smoothly and with expression in thier voice. Have them practice reading to Grandma, Auntie or an older cousin. We are wrapping up WYNN groups on comprehension. This week we will move on to addition and subtraction computation and fluency. Take out those flashcards or make some of your own. Give your child math facts aloud and have them answer on a white board. How many can they complete correctly in 2 or 3 minutes? That may be a motivating challenge! In Math we continue to work on problem solving and efficiently solving problems. Ask your child what efficient means? We have been talking about that a lot in Math. The children will also learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his impact on our country. We will discuss his dream and I will ask the children what their dream for our world is. The children have also been using the senteo hand-held computers during our computer time. They have been answering math questions. They really enjoyed using them and did a very good job. I will be sending home a mitten on Monday to decorate. The children did such a wonderful job with their Gingerbread people that I hope this project will be the same. They will be writing a descriptive piece about their mittens at the end of the month. Have a wonderful week!