The Maples
1.22 - 1.26
Important Dates!
- Monday, January 29th - field trip to the American Museum of Natural History to see the Butterfly Exhibit
- Monday, February 19th - Friday, February 23 - Midwinter Recess
- Friday, March 2nd - February Family Day (first Friday in March, because of Midwinter Recess and the short month)
- Thursday, March 29th - March Family Day
- Friday, April 27th - April Family Day
- Friday, May 25th - May Family Day
- June Family Day TBD
This Week, We...
- Visited the Hayden Planetarium and saw a movie about Dark Matter for our research for the Integrated Unit. We explored the first floor exhibit and the Maples took notes and observational drawings about their weight on the sun, the life span of stars, and more!
- Explored space-themed provocations in Work Time, including building telescopes in blocks and using black paper and cray-pas to draw parts of our solar system.
- Started new guided reading groups in Reading Workshop, and finished our current unit: Readers Have Big Jobs To Do!
- Read our nonfiction books to partners, started creating chapters, and used checklists all together to make sure our work is first grade ready in Writing Workshop.
- Observed number patterns from 1-120 by creating horizontal number lines and personal hundreds charts in Math Workshop. We also continued counting objects by skip counting.
Next Week, We Will...
- Continue our work in guided reading and start a new unit in Reading Workshop: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons.
- Start to write nonfiction chapter books in Writing Workshop.
- In Math Workshop, we will wrap up our Working with Larger Numbers investigation and launch a new unit Fish Lengths and Fraction Rugs which will focus on measuring and comparing.
- Visit the Butterfly Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History to learn about insect habitats and ecosystems for our Integrated Unit of Study.
Ask Me About...
- My "teaching book" topic in Writing Workshop
- My favorite part of our visit the planetarium - and what is Dark Matter, anyway?
- Learning a new song at Morning Meeting, You've Got A Friend In Me