Wow!

What an outstanding day we had today!  Our WOW word this week is somber.  We used our new word in sentences and realized we could think of many instances when we felt somber.


We learned how to count up, count back, add, subtract and skip count on a number line!  We worked hard in math to show that we could do all of these things with dice and a number line.

We are reviewing all of our short vowels this week.  When we were sorting our words, we were *really* excellent sound/spelling detectives and we were able to find two oddballs!  Oddballs are words that don't fit our pattern.  We found that her and saw don't fit because in her, you hear the "h" and the "r" but not the vowel and in saw, it sounds like it should be an "o" but is spelled "aw".  The first graders are amazing!  We also worked through our first tasks in spelling city.


We are writing personal narratives in writing and remembering to use temporal words which show the order of events.  We are writing some impressive pieces. 


This week our focus in on liquids and how they are different from solids and each other.  The first graders told me this morning that they are different from solids because they are different states of matter, they take the shape of the container that they are in, and their particles are moving faster and further apart than solid's are.


WOW!