Crew News February 1, 2013

Our Crew
Today's post was going to have videos showing us wrestling in PE but Mr. Doug was sick so we had to change our plans. We hope Mr. Doug feels better soon. I thought a crew photo would be nice today. We will post about wrestling another time. Enjoy the photo of our wonderful crew. Missing today were Reese and Natalie.

Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy some great books with your child.

IA
Our IA next week is Art.

Crew News January 31, 2013

Our Day in Pictures

Sharing a lighthouse sculpture during Morning Meeting

Demonstrating how to do a jumping jack.

Getting the whole crew up and jumping.

Reading with a 4th grade buddy.

Reading with a 4th grade buddy.

Finding a contraction (she'll) while reading.

Finding a word that has "-tion" at the end while reading. (action)

We are crew.

Enjoying a good book at the library.

We love to write.

Looking for  a good book in the library.

Found a great book!

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 6.5 Fact Routines Practice

Crew News January 30, 2013

When I Grow Up
The VoiceThread below (with the voices of our crew this time) was created as part of our financial literacy study. We talked about the idea that people have choices in what jobs or careers they have. We also learned that people with different jobs can make different amounts of money. In the VoiceThread below you will see and hear the crew explain what career they would like to have when they grow up. (If you receive these posts by email you will need to go directly to the blog or click on the link below to view the VoiceThread.)



For a larger view of this VoiceThread, click here.  

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 6.4 Family Letter ~ Fact Triangles

Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to return his or her library books.

Crew News January 29, 2013

Our Day in Pictures

Desk clean out on Stewardship Day (every Tuesday)

Working at the Build and Create Center

Absorbed in a book

Working with Word Families - the "est" family

Acting as Scientists at the Wonder and Explore Center

Love those books!

More "Building and Creating"

Using the Geoboard app on the iPad

Learning to spell sight words

More First Grade Fashion

Working on fact families in Math

Our teacher's helper doing the Math jobs

More deep concentration in Math

Bundling up to go home

 
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 6.3 Fact Families

Crew News January 28, 2013

Crew News This Week
For the last two weeks, I have given updates about what we are learning in each content area. I thought that this week we would do something a bit different. This week we will have photos, VoiceThreads (slideshows with student voices) and maybe even a video or two of things that are happening each day in our room. These will just be random bits of our days. We will just have to see what turns up this week. Enjoy!

Reading a good book

Reading group

Feeling the vibrations in our drum circle

Reading group

Figuring out the mystery word

Playing Addition Top-It

First Grade Fashion

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 6.2 Name-Collection Boxes

Crew News November 11, 2011

Glimpses Into Our Day

 Jonah is deep into his book.

 Lulu loves the monkey bars.

 Brandon and Jonah use their muscles in the new digging pit.

 Isabella starts a hole in the digging pit.

 Look how deep they have dug - well, with lots of help from lots of kids.

 Keanan enjoys some fresh air.

 Peyton and Keenan hang out together at recess.

 Just look at that smile!

 Doran - just hanging around.

Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy a few good books with your child.

IA
Our IA next week is Music.

Crew News November 10, 2011

Glimpses Into Our Day

Steyn gives Ms. Dee a hand and puts away all of the Thursday Folders.

Sydney shows she is a good listener during Morning Meeting.

Tessa and Tori do some buddy reading.

Joey makes a plan before she begins to build letters.

Lili reads a great book to me during reading group.

Zak works hard on his first blog post.

Myles and Dillen listen to a great book about whales and sharks.

 

Isadora works on an illustration for her story.

Mark ponders his ideas for his first blog post.

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.15 Unit 4: Family Letter ~ Measurement and Basic Facts