A few weeks ago I introduced the class to the hilarious author Robert Munsch! Today I read the story Mmm, Cookies! It is a story about a little boy named Christopher who makes cookies out of play clay and tricks people into eating them. :) The idea of making cookies was perfect for us to practice the concepts we are learning in economics. The students learned that the producer is someone who does a job or produces a product. The consumer is the person who pays for the job or the product. As part of our social studies lesson today the students became producers. They used play-doh to create their own cookie(s). They made up an advertisement stating the name of their cookie and a price. Finally, Mr. Boodheshwar and myself came to the "market" to buy cookies. We were the consumers. We each had $20.00 to spend, so we weren't going to buy cookies that were too expensive. It was a fun lesson and hopefully the students learned a lot in the process. This week in math we worked with shapes. The students had to create and take apart structures with three-dimensional shapes. They did many hands on assignments where they got to create and discuss the cool structures they built. As I walked around it was great to hear the math vocabulary the students were using with their peers: sphere, cone, cube, rectangular prism, cylinder. Today is Earth Day! We celebrated Earth Day by reading a book called Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. After reading the book we talked about what we can do to help keep our Earth clean. I thought it would be perfect to show the students how we can reuse an everyday object and turn it into something new. We used the milk cartons purchased with our school lunch and turned them into a flower pot. The students used scrap paper from the art room to decorate their milk carton. Then, we planted flower seeds in our new pot. I can't wait to hear about the sprouts we see popping up at the end of the school year. Remember to take care of our Earth!
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This week the class learned that y makes three sounds. It makes the consonant sound like in you, yes, yawn, yesterday and yet. The y in a one syllable words makes the sound i like in sky, sly, fly, try, by, my. The y in a two or more syllable word makes the sound e like in baby, happy, tiny, lovely, crazy, funny. To make reading these words a little more exciting we played a game of hot potato. If you had the ball when the music stopped you had to read a y word from the board. Good job 1st grade! Fun in the sunHappy Friday! Due to the state testing first grade had to move their specials time to the morning! That made for a LONG afternoon. On such a beautiful Spring day we decided to go outside and enjoy the sun! This week we have been working on chapter 10 in our Go Math series. The students learned how to read and write picture graphs and bar graphs. In order to give the students a hands on experience with graphing they were put into small groups to create their own bar graph. The first step was choosing a topic. Next, they determined four categories about their topic. Using tally marks each group surveyed the class to collect data. After all the data was collected they created their graph. Finally, the groups had to write four questions about the graph they created. They did a very good job working together cooperatively to complete this task. Graphing can be a lot of fun and yummy! Today the students were given a handful of m&ms. They had to sort the m&ms by color, graph the results, and answer questions about their graph. After completing this assignment the students got to eat their data. :) Duck! RAbbitThe story Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is one of my favorite stories to share. It shows the class that a person can have more than one point of view. This book is also a great prompt for an opinion piece. To begin the lesson the students were given a picture of a duck/rabbit. Knowing that there is no right or wrong answer they had to turn their picture into either a duck or a rabbit. Next, I read the story to the class. The kids thought it was hilarious. During the second read they had to look for evidence in the story to support that the picture was a duck or a bunny. Everyone is doing a really good job of finding evidence from the text to support their writing. Finally, they wrote an opinion piece arguing that the picture is a duck or a rabbit. What do you think? Is it a duck or a rabbit? Robert MunschThis week I introduced the class to the author Robert Munsch by reading Smelly Socks to the class. Most of his books are written to make the reader laugh. If you are interested in listening to him read a few of his stories take a look at the link below.
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