First Grade with Mrs. Greene 2022-2023: Busy, busy, busy week!

We've had a super busy week in first grade with lots of exciting happenings!

In the mornings, students have been writing in their journals. It gives them extra practice and exposes them to a variety of genres. Students write about their weekend news, they write "all about" a topic, they answer a "would you rather" question, and so on. So far, it's going well!

Here are some pictures from small groups and center time. Students are working on saying words, segmenting and counting sounds, and then writing the word. Did you know that some sounds, like ch and sh, have two letters, but only count as one sound? Students practiced building words with short vowels and blends. Next week, in centers, students will do this activity with long vowel patterns we have learned about.

Students are practicing writing sentences. We are all working on starting sentences with capital letters and ending with punctuation.

Students are identifying the word that matches the picture.

We learned about Native Americans. We learned that Native Americans weaved baskets. We practiced weaving with paper and yarn (not pictured, but that should have come home today!)

We learned two new suffixes "-ed" and "-ing." We learned that "ing" means that something is happening right now and "ed" means that something happened in the past. We are practicing tapping out the base word and then adding the suffix.

We had a STEM lesson with Miss Cox's class. We learned about circuits and built Bristle Bots!

We had two special visitors, Ed Bullock and Ken Hamilton. They are Native Americans, who taught us about their culture and traditions. We had a Pow Wow, learned about storytelling (ask your child about the story of the woodpecker!), and hunting.