December Student-made Student-Centered Email

Dear First Grade Families,

     Happy December!  Even with the holidays coming, we are focusing on becoming better readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists in class!  Here’s what we are up to!

     In reading, Evan shares that we’ve been learning the difference between fiction and nonfiction.  London shares that nonfiction books have photographs and show real information. 

     In our writing center, we have choices!  Akirah has made a choice to research owls on PebbleGo.com with Asiyah and Julia.  Lucas and Alex have turned their research into informational posters teaching others about dinosaurs—ROAR!  Jacob L. has been writing  imaginative stories with Luke A. about gingerbread men and a big, fat policeman.  Payton has been choosing word work and using her phonics words to practice spelling.  In writing, Gracelyn and Payton are working on a nonfiction book about tigers.

     Science has been super!  Jacob S. shares that we are working on models, and yesterday we made moon out of clay and phases of the moon out of Oreo’s.  Luke A. shares that today we measured how high the moon is using handspans.

In math, Mckenzie says we wrote numbers on sentence strips.  Chase adds that we are also are counting all the way up to 200. Here is Akirah’s counting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKpHjmxhf4s&feature=youtu.be

Happy Holidays and Feliz Navidad,

Mrs. Y’s First Graders