Pictureless Post!

We have been so busy the past 2 days I don't even have pictures!!  This week we are working on words that have the long o sound.... oa words and ow words!  We have done a few smart board lessons that go with this word pattern and it has been so fun!

 

We have also published our Narrative piece and will chose our Roberts' Writers tomorrow!  I can't wait to see who has been working hard on their writing!

 

In Math we have started Place Value....I had a hard time with place value for some reason when I was in school, so I want to make sure that I am teaching it in a way that everyone learns and has a good understanding of what place value represents.

 

We have been hard at work on Reflex Math as well....I love seeing the kids get excited about learning new things!

 

This post is boring and I am sorry haha!!  I hope that my next post will be full of your children's faces!

Long a, amazing writer awards and good reading

 These are the spelling words for this week!!  We will also have 2 bonus words WAITER and HOORAY!  Please be practicing the words each night so that you will be ready on Friday!!

 

 In writing this week we are going to start a narrative piece about a special place we have been!!  I can't wait to see some of the places your children consider special:)

 

 Well lookie here!!!!  The Firsties were in the Retro Café today...we were excited to say the least we haven't gotten in since before the winter holidays!!!  WOOOOHOOOO!!!

 Neil was spelling the word grain during our word study lesson today!!  We learned all about how ay make the long a sound and how ai makes the long a sound, too!

 

 Jessica is on fire in her reading....she loves to read and move up levels....I love that she loves to read!!

 

I saved the best for last....remember last week when we did our opinion pieces and I said we would have 3 winners that really showed out in their writing.....Ally, Amy and Neil went over the top and were amazing!!  I was super impressed....I can't wait to see who this weeks writer will be!!!  

Compare and Contrast, spelling, writing, and SHOE TYING!!!

This week we are revisiting comparing and contrasting!!  Let me just say that if they don't know how to do this after this week we are in trouble hahahah!!!  They love it and want to do compare and contrast things constantly!!!  We learned today that being able to compare and contrast makes us a better reader!

 



Spelling words for the week!!!  These can be tricking so make sure your firstie is studying everyday!!



Jhavion hard a work on his final draft of his opinion piece!! 



This just makes me so happy!!!  Jacob  has learned to tie his shoes!!  This is a skill that first graders need to know and are learning as week speak....I like to make it a big deal when they learn this skill because as you know....they are going to use this often in life.  Also, for this teacher that has 25 kids time 2 feet.....that a lot of shoelaces for me to work on a daily basis!!!  

SLOPY COPY, A Happy, and Music

Sweet Will brought me a happy today!!! I love stamps especially with my big M on it!!!

 

We took our opinion pieces and made our sloppy copy!!  I will go through and check them and them they will write their published piece!!!  Way to go writers!!!  Can't wait to see who gets picked to be a Roberts Writer!

 

Several of the students got their goals for AR today and started their reading at home!!!  They always love this process!!!

No Power....No Problem

 We started the morning off in the dark due to some power outages in the area....that didn't stop us from going on with our day!  We had Joslyn's dad come as our watch dog this morning.  He pulled different groups to play sight word bingo!!  The kids love one on one time!!

 

 Meanwhile the rest of us worked our spelling words for the week!!  Jacob is the teacher and Ezra is the student!

 

 Mrs. Stacker's class had to join us for a bit because her room is really dark so they came and reviewed with us!!

I was so glad Jovani was back today!!  He has been in Africa over the break visiting!  He even brought me back some yummy chocolate!!

 

We had so much fun today adapting to not having many friends with us, but it was so much fun and lots of learning, too!!!

 

We have been talking about Wants/Needs this week in Social Studies and I decided that I NEED this little Boston in my life!!! Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Making Predictions, a Birthday, and Deer Teeth

 Today we worked on making predictions...we looked at the cover of the book Squirrel's New Years Resolution and before we read the book we made predictions of what his resolution would be!!!  No one guess it but his resolution was to help one person a day!!!  That's a good one!!

 

 Over the break Jessica turned 7....she is super excited!!!!  She also is very excited because Santa brought her a new puppy!!!

 

 Check out those deer teeth...Ally's grandpa found these teeth and Ally loved showing them to the class!!

 

 Today we continued working on our opinion piece in writing....today's goal was to add the reason we had this opinion...Matthew was really thinking hard about his reasons!  We had to write 3 complete sentences with a capital and a period!

 

Firsties hard a work!!

 

Hope everyone is staying warm out there!!!

2014...My Blogging Fingers are Back!

 Will was so excited that FSU pulled off the win last night....he has been all smiles today!!!

 

 Go Cayden Go!!!!  Looks to me like I had some friends that practiced their reading over the break....I am super impressed!!!

 

 Since it is a new year today first thing we made a list of resolutions that we wanted to make for our classroom.....they came up with these all on their own and I think they are perfect!!!  We talked about how we were zooming into this new year and were going to start getting ready for 2nd grade!!!  We talked about how we are going to be on point in 2014 and do our very best!!

 

We are still working on writing opinion pieces and this weeks topic is Which do you like best? Winter or Summer!

 

We wrote our topic and the topic sentence today!!!!  More to come on!

 

Also, I am making it my person resolution to keep my blog on point during this new year.  When I was teaching pre-k I was a daily blogger and since I had the shock of a lifetime and moved to 1st grade I needed some time to get my feet wet....well they are ready to go now and I promise to do better!!  I have an audience that needs my attention :)  You know who you are!

 

I was going to try and go back and try to play catch up but that is too hard:)