A Week Before Christmas!

Greetings! Today was a fun day in first grade. The Christmas excitement is in the air. We are all looking forward to next week. And to top of that excitement today, Santa came to visit. Each student was able to tell Santa one thing he/she would like for Christmas. 

And now for the learning part of our day: 

We began our day with Religion. Today we wrapped up our chapter on the Easter story. We will revisit this story closer to the holiday. 

We began Language Arts class by working in our centers. Then we wrapped up another week of learning. We used our oral vocabulary words in sentences, read soft c and soft g words, spelled and read words with the inflectional endings when the final e is dropped, and wrote sentences using our sight words. We ended the morning by partner reading a story in our decodable reader booklets. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we partner read The Gingerbread Man. We also idenitfied rhyming words as we read Mother goose poems and completed pages in our close reading companion. Finally, we took our weekly assessment and identified past and future tense verbs. 

In Penmanship class this week, we will practice writing Q and q. 

In Spanish class today, we learned two more greetings: buenos tardes (good afternoon) and por favor (please). 

We began a new Math chapter today which will focus on addition and subtraction strategies for the numbers to 20. Today we focused on addition. We practiced making 10 and then counting on. We began by using our linking cubes and then switched to pictures. Hopefully the homework went well tonight. 

And now for some pictures. Here is what Jingles got into over the weekend: 

 And here is our Art project from Friday: 

Tomorrow is our Grinch Day. If we do not have school, then we will have Grinch Day on Wednesday. Please let me know if you have any questions. Stay warm!