Week of September 21-25

Dear parents, 

Thank you to the many parents who came to curriculum night. I enjoyed sharing all that your child will be learning this year!

In reading this week we have learned the strategy "go back and reread when it doesn't make sense." We practiced this during readers workshop in class, it is the first strategy to use when your child is stuck.  We read the book The Big Bed. I modeled going back to reread. 

In writing we are well into the writing workshop. We are writing for 20 minutes independently.  Students are using materials independently too. They've learned "when you're done you've just begun!" They have been trying their best at drawing and writing even if it is hard. Today we will read Donald Crews book Freight Train to see how authors label their picture and try it in our own writing.

 

In Social Studies we are learning about rules. We discussed when a rule is unfair.  We will sort pictures of things that are fair and unfair.

In math we compared numbers playing top it and we played bunny hop! Student hopped their bunny on a number line. We reviewed making tally marks and talked about when we tally mark to show points in a game or to keep track of data. Students practiced counting animals with wings and without wings and tallied their results. We will have a homelink tomorrow night. 

Tomorrow is popcorn day, it's one dollar for a bag at lunch time.

Have a great day! 

Mrs. Scheck

Week of September 14-18

We have been busy this week in First Grade! 

We have begun readers workshop! The students have been practicing reading to themselves for a set amount of time and reading to a partner too.  I begun assessing students in reading. We have learned the following reading strategies: cross checking and one to one match. We read the book Stellaluna this week and learned the character trait, brave.  We found evidence in the book to show how Stellaluna was brave.

In writing we have learned how to write using the materials in the room independently.  We shared our stories with the class. We learned what to do when we are done... We can add more to the picture, add more words, or start a new piece.

In math, we discussed estimating.  We counted objects using different strategies: counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's.

We learned new math games. We played monster squeeze and the penny dice-game.

See you on Monday at 7:15 for curriculum night!

Mrs. Scheck

First week of school 2015-2016

Dear parents, 

We are on off to a great start in room 109!

On the first day we got to know each a little bit. We played a fun name game in the morning. We read the book First Day Jitters and The Night Before First Grade.  We wrote about our feelings on the fisrt day. We had snack and got our pictures taken!

In the afternoon we had an assembly and Mr. Bender talked about keeping Wixom Elementary safe!

We did a project the with our names.

On Wednesday, we began our day learning the School Family Song with sign language.

We began our first unit in math. We started Writing Workshop. The students brought home a letter about math unit 1. Parents have a little homework to do tonight, a survey about their student!

We are going to have so much fun this year!

Mrs. Scheck

Last class picture

We took a picture here 10 months ago, look at how much we have changed!

Insect day

Jack's praying mantis

Hailen's ant

Savannah's butterfly

Brianna's praying mantis

Dante's ant

Aankit's praying mantis

Saige's ladybug

Hayden's butterfly

Olivia's ladybug

Ariana's dragonfly

Brian's praying mantis

Katie's ladybug

Ayveri and Joel were greeters

Iris's butterfly

Hunters snake caterpillar

Hailen's ant

Dairy Queen

June 8-10

Dear parents,

I can hardly believe we are at the end of the year. I apologize for not blogging last week with the field trip and insect day, we've been a little busy!

In math we have competed the end of the year quarterly test and have been reviewing in class some of the games that we learned this year. We will do a few journal pages. Look for the math journal to come home tomorrow. Students may compete any pages for extra practice all summer long.

In reading, we have been reading fiction books and some of our favorites from the past year. We went on a contraction hunt last week and found many contractions in our books. 

In writing, we are wrapping up persuasive writing tomorrow, we had to select a piece for second grade portfolios. The portfolio contains writing and testing that stays in school and goes on to their next teacher.

We will write a letter to our second grade teacher to introduce ourselves to her over the summer.

Wednesday is a half day. Students are dismissed at noon that day. It is the last day of school and we will be getting our yearbooks!

I have enjoyed watching your children grow and learn. I will miss each one of them.

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Scheck