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Mrs. Arms 1st Grade Class- May 3, 2013
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May 6-10 National School Nurses’ Week
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After studying the characteristics of animals and plants we began looking at life cycles. We studied the life cycles of: chicken, frog, and fish.
As an enrichment activity we did a disection of a hard boiled chicken egg. Students recorded their observations of the external characteristcs.
Then I cut the egg open and the studied the egg white and yoke and recorded the characteristics. Students then wrote a reflection about what they learned and still wonder about.
What Are We Learning
Reader's Workshop- Poetry
TEKS
1.8 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to
(A) respond to and use rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetryTradebooks
How I Hopscotch by Kristine O’Connell George
Spaghetti by Shel Silverstein
Ice Cubes by: Joan Bransfield Graham
Pocket Full of Rocks by: Sheree Fitch
Writer's Workshop- Writing Poetry
We have spent a few weeks studying poetry as readers and will begin studying and practicing the craft of writing poetry.
Strategies Poets Use
· Poets find a big topic that gives them big, strong feelings.
· Poets find a small object or moment or detail that holds the big feeling.
· Poets look with poets’ eyes and see this ordinary thing in a special way.
· Poets write about it, experimenting with line breaks
TEKS
1.18 Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are expected to:
(B) write short poems that convey sensory details.
Math- Patterns
TEKS:
1.4 Patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking. The students use repeating patterns and additive patterns to make predictions.
1.4A Identify, describe and extend concrete and pictorial patterns in order to make predictions and solve problems
1.5 Patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking. The student recognizes patterns in numbers and operations.
1.5A Use patterns to skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
1.5B Find patterns in numbers including odd and even
Generalizations:
1. Patterns have rules that can be identified, analyzed, and communicated.
2. Predictions can be made based on patterns.
3. There are different kinds of patterns. Two kinds of patterns are additive patterns and repeating patterns.
4. Skip counting is a pattern that can be created by adding the same number, but is related to multiplication
5. A variety of strategies and tools help us compute problems in everyday situations.
Social Studies- Good and Services
TEKS:
1.8 Economics. The student understands the concepts of goods and services. The student is expected to:
(A) identify examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community
(B) identify ways people exchange goods and services
(C) identify the role of markets in the exchange of goods and servicesGeneralizations:
1.8A
Identify: What are examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community?
Home
· Goods-furniture, toys, microwave
· Services-doing chores, driving to meetings/events
School
· Goods-pencils, desks, paper, copier, computers, books
· Services-teacher, secretary, librarian, nurse
Community
· Goods-cars, food, gasoline, clothes
· Services-lawyer, doctor, hospital, restaurant
1.8B
Identify: How do people exchange goods and services?
· Market system - Money is used for exchange in place of goods and services.
· Bartering - Goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services
1.9C
Identify: What is the role of markets in the exchange of goods and services?
A market is a place or a system where goods and service are exchangedShout out to Asha- Thanks for volunteering this week
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