WRITING:
We are using a "Flee Map" (a tree + a flow) to organize our writing and to make sure we have our transition words! We will add the tree part tomorrow. We will add at least one detail to every event.
I modeled:
Opening: Last year over Thanksging break Bubba (aka Jack) and I went to North Dakota. We were visiting my sister and nephew. This answers our questions of Who, What, Where and When and gives the reader a clear idea of what I will be writing about. Notice it is in green...we are just getting going!
First we drove 24 hours to get there. Once we got there I was sick and it started to snow. After 3 short days we had to leave. That is the "meat" of my paper. (ssssh don't tell...but tomorrow we are going to add some details to each event) Yellow to indicate slow down and get the facts.
Ending: Guess what? Hank (Bubby) and I are driving there this Thanksgiving. And that's my ending! Red becuase I'm done!
This is a picture of our map...feel free to help your SUPER pup organize his/her ideas in this way in order to stretch their story over several "pages". I am so excited about the writing that goes on in our classroom! As we finish these pieces and get them "published" I will SHARE!
READING:
Today as a part of our author study we listened to Arthur's Computer Disaster by Marc Brown. After listening to the story...I pulled out the "flow map" cards again! We had eight story cards we needed to sequence. You will notice that they are much like the writing map we used earlier in the day. We are making the connection that when we write we are AUTHORS!
If we look closesly we can see that there are 2 parts we considered the beginning, 5 in the middle and 3 at the end! Much like our own writing. Once we start to make this connection our stories are going to ROCK OUT!
TOP DOG TUESDAY:
MATH:
I don't have any pictures of what was going on because...you guessed it ...it was kind of hard to stop and take photos while being observed!
With that being said...we had some great thinking going on today! I need to just tape a whole day! You all would be astounded by how first graders are able to verbalize what they are thinking! It just warms my heart. I couldn't ask for a BETTER class of pups!
Mr. I was shocked at our problem solving today...Eric had 2 money jars and 8 dimes. If he put equal amounts of dimes in each jar how much money was in each jar! NOT only are we dividing BUT it's another multi step problem. One of my SUPER pups even said we could use our DOUBLES strategy to help us...And then once we got them divided equally we had to know how much a dime was worth and then skip count it up! We noticed that 4+4=8 AND 40+40=80! BLOW ME AWAY...I love those connections and observations!
LIVE on 313:
Jammin' Aaron just keeps on giving out rewards...AND teaching us fun stuff!
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| We LOVE Jammin' Aaron! |
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| Notice that sticker in his hand...LAST "official" day to get pledges! I CHOOSE fitness! |
Have a wonderful evening! I'm the luckiest first grade teacher...thank you all so much for supporting, Robertson, the SUPER pups and ME!
