Today we started some Observational Writing. As you will see Thinking Maps
are a BIG part of our writing this year. The pictures will show you our color coding to help us make sure that we have all the necessary parts of a sentence!
Green is for our subject, Red is how we are going to describe it (details) and Blue is for our verbs or connecting words! You will see some "sparkle" on our sentences because it gives our sentences something extra special!
The Dragon
All of the things we OBSERVED
looks, is, has
silly, long like a snake, two wings
Nooooo FRU FRU here!
Be on the look out for more writing like this!
This afternoon wasn't ALL FUN and GAMES...We got caught up on our calendar notebook. I got to hear all about Emily and Nate's big birthday plans! Connor took the birthday bag home...AND we were introduced to our FIRST DRAGON of the WEEK....
He has one younger brother, Loves to go to Sea World and the beach and his favorite toys are Action Figures!
NOW...let the games begin! Today we learned that the answer to an addition problem is the --------? Hopefully, your first grader will be able to finish that sentence. If not...sum! We played, My SUM Is today. The kids were paired up with unifix cubes a die and a game board. If they rolled and even number they got to move 2 spaces. If they rolled an odd number they moved 1 space. What ever number they landed on was to become the sum of their addition problem! If they couldn't figure out an equation then they had to go back home! It took a little while to catch on! But there were some GREAT efforts!
After math we started learning about Farthest, Near and Closest...What better way to learn this concept than playing Pin the Petal on the Flower! Lots of fun was had BUT we did get to have some serious discussions about which petals were the closest, farthest and near to the seed pod! Check it out for yourself!
Connor, Drake and Kerry were close but the consensus was...KERRY was CLOSEST.
Tomorrow to continue on this topic...we are going to take some "trips" to different places around the school! Look at the map below with your child and have them predict which place will take the longest to get to and which one will take the shortest amount of time and WHY...Remember the vocabulary from today's lesson! hint hint hint!
During our lesson today we were also introduced to the MOBI...not sure what that stands for but we are going to have lots of fun with it this year! It allows us to write on the screen from our desk...Make the screen more interactive! The picture above is a picture of the screen...I highlighted our room and drew the lines to the places we will visit...LOTS of FUN!
Thanks to those of you who sent in your 5.00 for the fall festival basket! There is a prize for the classes that have 100% participation...That means we need to raise 100.00 for our basket!! Doesn't matter if everyone gives we just have to have 5.00 per child in our class! I'm so excited for the PTA Fall Festival! It looks like it is going to have lots of fun stuff! Can't wait to see everyone there!
