Thank you!

Dear First Grade Families,
Thank you for the generous gift to support classroom learning and activities for the children!
I was able to purchase some wonderful items from our wish list and am so excited to share them all with the kids when we return in January. Some of the highlights include large magnetic math learning tools for money and coins, large magnetic base ten blocks and magnetic pattern block shapes. A large floor mat game to build understanding of the 100 chart, a game for learning time and using clocks, and games to support addition.
In the area of art and science I was able to purchase new magnifying glasses, picture books on weather, gold and silver metallic colored crayons, metallic colored pencil sets and Jan Brett's newest book, The Turnip. 
Thank you for your kindness and continued support of the learning that happens in our classroom!
Be looking for photos of these new items being used in 2016!
Mrs. Greene

Winter Trees inspired by the book "Sky Tree" by Thomas Locker

Using Cusienaire Rods in Math

Each colored rod has a number value. Rods will be used to create addition fact families.

What were we up to last week?

Reading group work

Writing about what we read in reading group

Playing a word game

Winter Poetry Reading December 15th

It's not looking very wintery outside yet, but we hope you can join us in our classroom on Tuesday morning from 9-10 for our winter poetry reading and beaded ornament/sun catcher project. We selected winter poems from some picture books and have been reading them during our reading group time each day. The children are busy illustrating the poems in a poetry book format so parents can follow along as the children read. 

Measurement and Place Value in Math

We put objects in order from longest to shortest and shortest to longest and discovered that 2 of these items were equal in length

Recording our measurement work

We learned about the value of the dime and penny and have used the coins to represent
2 digit numbers

Luca is proud of his math work

James made detailed sketches of the items he compared

Sophie showed her understanding of showing a given number in more than one way

We made an anchor chart to show 4 ways to represent the number 24

Putting our family foot tracings in order by length

Tyler's dad had the longest foot of the class!

Helen is writing a title onto her foot paper

Kyle is busy cutting out his foot prints to put them in order

Science and Literacy

Helen's owl joined our nest

Learning about trees while we also explore the genres of fiction and nonfiction

Three favorite winter poetry books that we used to find poems for our poetry reading

Alex and Helen are reading "Cinders" by Jan Brett. This book is full of beautiful illustrations

December author illustrator study of Jan Brett

We are growing an Amaryllis bulb and recording our observations as it grows

Kailee's first page 

The first change we observed is that the pale green sprout turned darker green after sitting on our window ledge