Today we continued to practice the short i sound. Yesterday we practiced singing along to a video about a girl named Silly Jill. Today we read The Big Hit on Starfall.com. We practiced making words in the –ig family. Then we learned how to use magic squares to make words on the Smartboard. Everyone got to try it on their own at their seats. When we were done, we shared and sorted our words together and made a chart.
We had first grade assembly. Junie B. Jones and Mr. Wu, the bus driver, came to our school. Junie B. had a special chest filled with lots of interesting things. Some of them were: a pointer to talk about school rules and grades you get, a purple fluffy scarf, a clown wig, her elephant named Phil who tried to fly, an elf costume, a toilet plunger (that she kissed!!!), and lots of dirty clothes with stains on them from the cafeteria. Junie B. used cymbals to make loud noises. At the end, Junie B. was moving around and we were able to see her underwear! Dylan, Stephen, Nancy, Lauria and Jacob’s favorite part was the cymbals. Sasha’s favorite part was when she came into the cafeteria jumping and skipping. Dylan A.’s favorite part was when she tried to make her stuffed elephant fly. After the performance, everyone got a Junie B. Jones paper doll and a stamp from Junie B. Jones, herself! The class went outside to look at her “stupid, smelly bus” before returning to the classroom.
We continued to work on our All About Us book. Jacob, Arlo, Victoria had a turn today.
In music, we played instruments first. We also practiced the typewriter song that we learned in kindergarten. Everyone got to use the finger drums. Then we played freeze dance. Amanda thought Meaghan was really good at it. Arlo thought everyone did a good job, especially Lauria.
Before math, Ms. Stern hung up our self-portraits. We made a list of questions that we could ask (and answer) using the pictures that we drew. Some of the questions were:
-How many people are there?
-How many girls are there?
-How many boys are there?
-How many pictures have suns?
-How many people are playing sports?
-How many houses are there?
-How many fingers?
Tomorrow we will be working on answering our questions.
During Writer’s Workshop, we reviewed what we need to be good writers. We came up with the following: quiet space, materials (pens, papers, etc.), practice, spelling help, ideas and experiences to write about, and details in our work. Then Ms. Stern introduced date stampers. We learned to hold the stamper with the flat part against our thumb. We also learned not to change the date, to stamp our papers only one time on the date line at the top of the page.
Today we finished reading our first chapter book, Junie B.: First Grader At Last! We thought the book was really good because it was funny. In the beginning, Junie B. didn’t like first grade. She discovered that she needed glasses to see better. Her friends weren’t nice to her. At the end, Junie B. ended up really liking first grade!
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