Hello 1JB Families!!
Wow! Where does the time go! We are all soaking in these final short weeks of first grade in 1JB.
Important Dates:
UPCOMING FIELD TRIP!!!!! Check out this doc for information and parent sign-up.
Last day of school: June 7- 9:45-10:30 AM: K-2 Concert and Moving Up Ceremony (Meetinghouse)* families invited. 11 AM: Lower School Dismissal
Final Post Office information below:
Keep reading to see what we’ve been up to!
Language Arts
Ask your child about the following phrase: Somebody, Wanted, But, So Then (SWBST).
Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then is a summarizing strategy to help students practice retelling in their own words.
Students first practiced this strategy with wordless picture books. While working with a partner students went through books to look for the SWBST.
During our next reading lesson, students listened closely to the story Corduroy. After hearing the story students used Somebody Wanted But So Then strategy to retell Corduroy in their own words.
Students then practiced this strategy with their own writing! Each student used the graphic organizer below to create their own stories. Once they wrote a story, they had the opportunity to share it with a partner and have their partner practice retelling! An important instruction for using this graphic organizer was that students had to write in full sentences for each section! For example, when writing in the W box students had to write something like, “Ted wanted to go to the beach.” instead of “the beach”.
Social Emotional Learning/ Morning Meetings
An exciting component that we have added to our morning meetings is sharing positive affirmations about ourselves. Positive affirmations can give us a much-needed boost of self-esteem and put us on the road to a successful day! Here are some of the ones that students have been using:
To support students’ practice of positive affirmations they spent some time creating our own I Am, Positive Affirmation Jars. Ask your child about the affirmations they chose to write in their jar.
Math
1JB has continued their unit on time! We began looking at analog clocks and sharing our noticing. Students learned that the short hand points to the hour and the long hand points to the minute. We did different activities to help us learn that when the minute hand points to 12, it must be ____o’clock or ___:00. The next activities we did helped us learn that when the minute hand is at 6 and the hour hand is halfway between two numbers, it must be half past an hour or __:30. Another important component of time is counting by fives!
To help us practice reading both analog and digital clocks, students played time bingo!
Check out some other activities here: Time Resources
As we continued our conversation about measurement, but on Thursday we shifted the conversation to linear measurement! We began this unit by looking at things around the room and thinking about the length of different items. Students experienced measuring lengths with a ruler and other materials like pencils! We asked questions like “What is longer the rug or the table?”
Students walked around the room and measured different items and objects with a pencil. Students then had to record their data by saying which was longer, the object or their pencil.
FUNdations
In FUNdations, students learned about vowel consonant e words, also known as v-e.
When a word has a vowel consonant e at the end of a word it means the vowel is saying its name! Students learned that when a vowel says its name there must be a magic/silent e at the end of the word. For example, we used the following words to learn these sounds: Safe, Pete, Pine, Home, and Mule.
Check out the worksheets below for more practice:
Students have also learned ALL the vowel teams. Ask your child to go through this poster with you!
Recent trick words: Nothing, none, friend, other, another
Partner Reading, Games, and Activity Time
Mix it up!! During activity time this week, we mixed it up and played games with partners. Ask your child: what game did you try? Was it a game you played before? Who did you play with?
