Fabulous Friday

11/15- Box Tops and Frozen Friday

11/18- Parent Body Safety at 6:00 PM

11/19- Student Body Safety Presentation

11/22- Barnes and Noble Night 4:00-8:00 PM

11/27-11/29- Thanksgiving Break-No School

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week students composed their persuasive paragraphs based on the information they had put in their hamburger model. We wrote a paragraph that was in favor of all first graders learning Pig Latin and one that was opposed to it. For each opinion students had to come up with an introduction, three supporting details, and a conclusion. We wrote the paragraphs together and then they put them into Pages on their IPad's. 

MATH

Students started a new lesson in math this week called A Bag of Pennies. We are still focusing on the measurement of weight. For this lesson we are using a baggie filled with 50 pennies as the benchmark. First, students counted out 50 pennies and put them into a baggie. Next,they picked two other items and put 50 of each into separate baggies. We discussed that even though all three bags had the same number of items in them, they did not weigh the same. Then they had to measure all three baggies to determine which was the heaviest, middle, and lightest. Students were sent home with an assignment to bring something (non-food items) from home that is either a little bit heavier or a little lighter than the bag of 50 pennies. We will use those items from home in class next week. 

                                    

LANGUAGE ARTS



Students completed their final draft of their opinion paragraph this week. Next, we began talking about what makes something a story. They were very good at identifying that a story needs characters, a setting, and a plot. Students were then introduced to Freytag's Pyramid, the structure that most stories follow. We also listened to the story, A Pen Pal for Max. Next week, we will summarize the story and break it down into the parts of Freytag's Pyramid. 

MATH

This week students were introduced to the geometric design called a tessellation. I explained that a tessellation is a design that repeatedly uses one or more geometric shape to tile an area with no gaps or overlaps. We also talked about how the geometric shapes are moved using either a flip, turn, or slide movement to create the tessellation. We practiced all of those movements using several different shapes and will be using them to create our own mosaic patterns soon!

                                        

LANGUAGE ARTS

Students completed their final drafts of their paragraph on the girl from The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Students chose a character trait they felt described the girl and then wrote an introduction, three supporting details from the text, and a conclusion. Due to the two hour delay, we were only able to meet once this week. We will begin a new lesson next week. 

MATH

Students continued learning about using formulas this week. They also took a chapter check up to ensure that every student has a clear understanding of the information we have covered so far. Based on the check up results, I will go over any topic that needs more attention before we start our new lesson. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week we wrapped up our lesson on Greek/Latin root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Students shared the words that they made up from the word parts and other students had to decipher what the new word meant. We also reviewed parts of speech by analyzing several sentences. Next, we discussed what a biography is. We will be reading and analyzing biographies next week. 

MATH

We began a lesson on 3-D shapes this week. We discussed definitions of polyhedron, prisms, and pyramids. Students were shown several 3-D shapes and we identified together whether or not the shapes were a polyhedron. If the shape was a polyhedron, we then classified it as a pyramid or prism. We will continue this lesson next week. 




                                                 

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Marquardt