11/2-11/13

We have been having so much fun learning at school that I have been going home exhausted! That’s why I am a bit behind on our posts.

We have continued to read words with long vowels. We have visited Starfall.com for additional review. Perhaps you can visit Starfall.com with your child to play fun phonics games!

In grammar we have continued to learn about nouns. We have learned about special titles, such as Mr., Dr., Mrs., and Officer. We have also learned to capitalize days of the week, months, of the year, and holidays. You can see one of our activities to reinforce this skill in the pictures below. This was a quick check to make sure that the students were grasping the concept, and they did great.

We have read about dinosaurs. We discussed carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. Hannah told us that, “Omnivores are animals who eat meat and plants, like humans do.” I also read aloud to the class Dinosaurs before Dark, the first Magic Treehouse book. These are great chapter books for first through third graders. The class even took an AR Quiz on the book!

We also read about forest life. We learned that bears eat grubs, and woodpeckers peck holes in trees to try to find bugs to eat.

In math we have been counting lots of money. Please practice this skill at home. We will continue to count money, but not as much as we have been over the past several weeks. Math skills are very developmental. Some first graders are just not ready to count money, but hopefully, but the end of the school year, they will be! Keep ADDING and SUBTRACTING with flash cards!

We loved learning about our bodies during our unit of study. We made q-tip skeletons to represent our bones. We also made My Body, My Buddy. We used everyday items to represent some of our body parts: an absorbent sponge for our brains, a heart, bubble wrap for our air-filled lungs, a scratchy sponge for our liver, a balloon for our expandable stomach, yarn for our winding intestines, sandpaper for our filtering kidneys, and a fishbowl for our bladder. We know many new facts about our bodies, including ways to take care of ourselves.