Team Bullard
Here's what's happening in the huddle...
Reading
Last week we read Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon by Pat Cummings. We focused on the following skills:
- using sticky notes to record important words from the story
- using a bookmark to record the sequence of events from the story
- drawing a picture to record our favorite parts of the story
These skills and strategies introduced this week are intended to aid children in retelling a story in order with detail. This is a skill I encourage you to do at home as practice is necessary for success.
GUIDED READING
Three of our guided reading groups finished practicing their Readers' Theater scripts last week. This is our first attempt at embedding video into our newsletter, so please be patient...we will get better!
Math
We began to work in unit 7 learning about:
- rules or attributes of shapes (size, shape, color)
- names of plane figures (2-dimensional shapes)
We also learned 2 new games to practice basic addition facts, BUMP and Tic-Tac-Throw.
Science
Do you know what a radula is on a snail? Well, your first grader should! (It's similar to a tongue with sharp teeth on it.) This is just one example of the exciting information we are learning about living things.
Did you hear about our cricket escapee? Yes, he sang to us for a whole day in the classroom from under our heater.
We concluded our week by observing fish and identifying their gill covers, fins, eyes, mouths, and tails. It was very interesting to study their scales up close too!
FYI - Osbaldeston's Pets of the World donated crickets to our classroom for our observation lesson and they allowed us to borrow fish for the afternoon. Thank you Osbaldeston's!
Could it be Nemo?
Mason observing his goldfish.
What an artist!
Julianna's cricket drawing in her science notebook.
We see them!
Evan, Timmy, and Louis looking for their fish's gill covers.
Welcome
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Parent Volunteer Schedule
Items Needed
We are in need of a few items in our classroom. If you are able, please send in whatever you can to help us next week. We could use:
- magazines to cut out pictures of animals and plants
- Rold Gold brand pretzels (to replenish our supply of safe snacks for those who forget once in a while)