Today we practiced another great habit of first grade readers: re-reading to make our voices smoother. We looked a text we had never read before and we tried to figure it out. The first few times we had to read slowly and use many strategies to figure out the words- we skipped words, we got our mouths ready, we made our best guesses, and eventually we figured it out! By the time we got to the end, we had almost forgotten what we were reading about, so... we re-read to make our voices smoother and it was SO much more fun! Ask your first grader what we read to practice that today. The best part was, I saw many first graders using that strategy in their own books during reader's workshop! Trying new things is such an important thing to do while we're learning.
We learned "Roll for 50" in math today. This game helps us use the number grid to count up and back and it's a little tricky because different numbers meant different things. For example, if we rolled a 6 you got to move "up 10". If you rolled a 4 you had to move "back 6". The first graders were VERY excited that they beat me as a class. I have not won ONE math game this year and they know it is driving me CRAZY!
In writing we tackled tricky drawings and words by not giving up, going slowly, and doing our best to sound each part out!
The first graders worked so hard today to be safe, respectful and ready to learn. We had many behavior and mind-set celebrations!
We are reviewing the vowel "i" this week and have been on the lookout for words that have short (and long!) "i" in it. One first grader noticed today, "Hey! Mrs. Hershman! It's almost like you put all of our word list words in our Spelling City list this week!" It IS almost like that... :) Our WOW word this week is "glisten". Many of us have seen lights glistening at night or off of the lake.
You will see two math homework sheets in your child's folder. Please complete them at your earliest convenience and send them back. If they could all be back by Friday, that would be great!
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