Word Study (Spelling)

Children are doing various activities with word study (spelling).  Sometimes the children sort their words according to spelling pattern, sometimes they highlight words with the spelling pattern they are studying, sometimes they will play a board game etc.

Math Game - Compare

The children are playing a math game called Compare.  They are looking to see who has the highest number.  

Science Class

Rosh Hashanah - Mia talks to the class

Mia talked to the children about the holiday Rosh Hashanah.  This is the Jewish New Year.  We read that some people celebrate Rosh Hashanah by eating apples and honey for a sweet new year.

Kyah's Pet Comes to Visit

Kyah's dog Pup came to visit our class.

Spelling aids

The children use two different spelling tools to aid them with spelling.  One is the spelling dictionary.  It has a list of high frequency words, but no definitions, so that the children can easily find the word they are looking for.  The other tool they use is a personal spelling book.  It is a spiral book and the children write a letter of the alphabet on each page.  When they need help spelling a word, the children turn to the letter at the beginning of the word, and the teacher writes the word for the student.

First piece of typing on Google Docs

For their first piece of writing on Google Docs, the children put in their email address (login purposes only and email is disabled for first grade students), their password and then open Google Docs.  Each child wrote about their birthday for their first piece of writing.

Beautiful Handwriting!

The teacher demonstrates a letter of the alphabet every day.  The children learn how to correctly form each letter and the correct placement of the letter on the lines.  

The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle

After watching a video of Eric Carle's book, The Very Lonely Firefly, the children each made a firefly out of tissue paper.

Art with Mrs. Serpe

The children are with Mrs. Serpe in the art room.  They did a beautiful job of listening carefully to directions!

Amanda's Summer Work

Amanda completed summer reading, writing and math.  She shared what she did with her teacher and earned a special note!

Carlson's Summer Work

Carlson got two special notes praising his efforts during the summer, he wrote in a journal, read books and reviewed math!

Circle Time/Jobs on the Job Chart

During Circle Time, the children do the calendar and have other jobs that are listed on the job chart.  Mille lost a tooth (above) and you can see her name is on the lost tooth chart for August.

Amanda does the weather graph (above) and  Kyah is making money for the number of days in school (below).

We track the date, and the days of the week.

We do odd and even according to the date in the month.  The five cubes below are for the 5th September and Kaelin is showing us that 5 is an odd number.

Abigail is counting the days in school too and showing us using place value straws.

Amanda is in charge of the recycling and Jocelyn is helping her.