11/10
It is hard to to believe that we are already well into the second nine weeks of school.
I am very excited about the progress that each student is making. I see such growth
in their writing and reading and math skills.
A combined science and writing project we recently completed involved writing about
the Pumpkin Life Cycle. We were challenged by using transition words as we told
the stages of growth. We will practice this again as we write a short 'How-to' piece.
We have been discussing the past and present and how we can keep track of past events
with a timeline. We have created a personal timeline and will be making a short
historical timeline of early American history. This will coincide with our discussion of
various early native Americans and the Pilgrim settlers. The class is enjoying trading
classes and learning from other first grade teachers as we relate tribes to geography
and natural resources and how those determined type of dwellings, food, and clothing.
Our math activities have been centered around place value understanding number
quantities, greater than, less than, and equal to.