Our new visitors are TADPOLES! Every year around April when the weather starts to warm, frog/toads lay their eggs on top of my pool cover at home. Before we open our pool I always collect tadpoles to watch this cool life cycle in person. We have been debating whether the tadpoles are frogs or toads and even, can we tell the difference this early. So we did some investigating and we used a venn diagram to help us collect our information that we found. I am hoping that we will be able to see the changes happening before school gets out!
Reading Workshop We are still practicing visualizing. We are mainly continuing to practice during IDR. Believe it or not, but it is a lot harder to visualize while reading and especially while they are reading a book that includes pictures. Your children are amazing and always strive to try and do their best, you should see the images they are seeing in their heads by the pictures that they have drawn. I am so impressed with their had work and determination to attempt anything that is thrown at them! Writing Workshop We have been using all our skills that we have been working on this year with free choice during writing. This gives the students practice on the things they loved the most. Math workshop We are reviewing our concepts from this year. We have reviewed graphing our height and comparing our measurements from December. We have found that maybe the measurements were not exact or true at times. We found that when we are collecting data that we need to make sure we are measuring correctly! We have also reviewed telling time to the half hours and quarter hours. You will notice that two sheet of homework went home along with the parent letter for the Unit 10. Reminders!
Reading Workshop
We have been very busy visualizing while we are listening to stories. This is something that everyone does all the time, but we don't pay much attention to it unless we are thinking about it. I have been reading aloud poems and different stories without showing any of the pictures. The students are closing their eyes to have the least amount of distractions as possible. I then ask them to draw the movie or picture that was created in their while I was reading out loud. There is no right or wrong picture because everyone's picture will be different based on their schema! Schema is our back ground knowledge that we already have based on our own experiences and things that we already know. We have done some partner work with visualizing that helps students understand how our schema is the same, but also different. Writing workshop We have been busy at work with a mother's day project and our Grosse Pointe Writing. We will continue more of our workshop after this week. Math Workshop We have been busy keeping up with math. We are really practicing a few concepts in unit 9, place value, fraction work, and measurement. Unit 9 is our last "real" unit. Unit 10 is a review unit of all the ideas that we covered on this year in first grade. BOX TOPS!!! I just learned some really important information about box tops today!
On Friday we had a wonderful time reviewing the needs of plants and the parts of a plant. We got to learn more about plants by learning specifically about the tomato plant. Every student got to plant two tomato seeds. The everything was donated by the Men's and Women's Garden Club of Grosse Pointe. It was an amazing real life way that our community came to help us review our ideas that we have been learning about new plants. We will be watering the seeds until little sprouts start. In a couple weeks, each student will be able to take home one or two tomato sprouts for your very own garden! A big thank you to the Garden Club for their time!
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AuthorI have been a teacher for 9 years now! This is my 7th year teaching in the Grosse Pointe Public School System. This is my 2nd year at Monteith! I have taught for 5 years in 2nd grade at Poupard Elementary and 1 year in 1st/2nd grade split. Before joining GPPSS, I taught for two years in Southfield Public schools. Archives
May 2018
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