This Week in Room 8 (3/21 to 3/24)

Reminder: No School Friday, March 25th.

This week's post is going to short and sweet because I am heading off to the School Board meeting to share the success our school is having with Team READ!

ELA: This week we will...

• Compare and contrast a wide-range of text
• Practice using context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word
• Ask and answer questions about key details in non-fiction text
• Continue to respond to text through a wide range of writing opportunities

MATH: This week we will...

• Continue to gain a better understanding of adding with regrouping
• Revisit answering equations with missing numbers
• Practice subtracting double digit numbers without borrowing

SCIENCE: This week we will continue to make observations and discoveries with lights and shadows.

Shadows, Responding to Reading, and More!

Students are synergizing to create the tallest tower in 120 seconds for our 120th day of school!

Find the Evidence:

We like to practice going back in the text to find the answers!

Reading is more than just saying the words. 

Students had the opportunity to create brochures for

books they read here at school. 

We had many classmates branch out to read different

genres after hearing about these great books!

We explored shadows by building 3-D creations with blocks.

We manipulated the flashlight to make our shadows get longer, shorter, and dance!

We recorded our observations and discoveries about shadows on Seesaw.

Check it out!

We researched Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks on Pebble Go.

We learned how to dig for important information.

We LOVE Stories!

Students "caught" in a good book (or e-book)!

This Week in Room 8 (3/14- 3/18)

ELA: This week we will...

• Continue learning about characteristics of good citizens. We are learning how to compare and contrast two different people using a Venn Diagram.
• Read about Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks
• Learn how to annotate and write down what we are thinking and learning when we are reading. We know that readers are not just reading the words, but thinking about the reading!
• Learn about the contractions she's, he's, and I'm. We will review the many contractions we have learned so far this year as well
• Include descriptive words in our writing in order to create a vivid picture for the reader

MATH: This week we will...

• Continue to practice adding two 2-digit numbers together
• Continue to practice adding/subtracting multiples of ten to 2-digit and 3-digit numbers
• Continue to practice subtraction strategies to build fluency

SCIENCE: This week we will...

• Learn more about how shadows are made
• Use different strategies to manipulate light to create different types of shadows

Important Info:

• St. Patrick's Day is Thursday, March 17th. Be sure to have your child wear green!
• Progress Reports will be posted on Skyward this Friday. Please see Mr. McConnell's Parent Update for additional information
• Let's have a great week! 

Respect Each Difference (RED DAY)!

We went down to the Abilities Fair.

We learned about accepting what makes us different.

Our grade created a display on a wide-range of items students 

use to be better learners.

We learned that everyone learns differently... and it is okay!

We ended our day blogging about Red Week.

What did we learn?

What did you take away?

What was your favorite part?

Check out your child's blog post on Kidblog!

This Week in Room 8 (3/7 to 3/11)

ELA: This week we will...

• Continue to learn more about characteristics of good leaders
• Continue to practice reading fluency, expression, and phrasing with our Reader's Theatre
• Compare and contrast information from two pieces of text
• Review adding a double consonant to certain words before adding -er, -est, -ing
• Review possessive nouns

WRITING: This week we will...

• Use our knowledge of possessive nouns and apply to our own writing
• Explore different ways to start sentences
• Take our sentences from simple to complex with the use of conjunctions (and, for, so, but, or)

Your child can practice reading skills on Read Theory, RAZ Kids, Reading Eggs/Reading Eggspress, and Epic. For the reading minutes to count, please have your child do the reading (not just listening to the stories). Thanks!

MATH: This week we will...

• Add and subtract multiples of ten to a wide-range of numbers
• Add a one-digit number to a two-digit number within 100
• Review missing addends ( __ + 5 = 18 or 16 = 5 + __)

IXL Skills-

First Grade:

Second Grade:

Your child can practice IXL Skills, Xtra Math, or Khan Academy to count for math minutes.

SCIENCE: This week we will...

• Continue to investigate, make observations, and make connections with light

Future Computer Programmers... Here in Room 8!

Today we created a code that made our names change colors and move to our finger

each time we touched our iPad!

We also created codes where we made a character move and change in different ways.

Friends explored making it spin, grow, make noise, flap wings, leave a color trail, change color,

and move at different speeds.

Check out your child's coding work tonight 

on the Hopscotch App.

Way to go, 1st Graders!

Dr. Seuss, Science Experiment, and Coding!

 Mrs. Sutic came to our class to read a few Dr. Seuss books!

We love Dr. Seuss!

We learned about a new coding app called Lightbot.

In this app, we program the robot to move to the blue tile and light it up!

 We had to figure out how to get it to turn clockwise and counterclockwise.

We also had to figure out how to get it to jump and light up several blue tiles!

We read a biography on Dr. Seuss.

As we took turns reading, we went digging for important information.

We learned that good readers think about what they are reading.

They also need to remember the key details they are reading!

In Science, we investigated light beams.

We used a wide range of materials and made predictions on whether or not most light would go through, some light would go through, or no light would go through the material. 

In our actual experiment, we took turns holding up different kinds of materials

 and shining the flashlight. 

We worked together to mark our results on our document!