Thursday was our 100th day of school. During our Number Corner, our community shared some of what we know about the number 100. This discourse was evidence of what we have learned about place value, addition and subtraction strategies and the relationship between the two. Above and below are some snapshots of our thinking.

Our community had a fun morning exploring. creating and building with some new choice time materials. 

Check out some work samples from our remote Wednesdays. Students can share and communicate their work in a variety of ways.

Learning opportunities are directly related to "I can" statements from our essential standards.

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 I can use strategies to add and subtract.

I can show my thinking with an equation.

Work sample here.

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I can use short vowel power when reading and writing words.

I can notice blends and digraphs in words and use what I know when I read and write.

I can use what I know about silent e to read and spell words. I know that silent e works with any vowel.

Work sample here

First Graders learned about winter solstice yesterday. We honored the darkest day of the year by creating light in a different way. Below are our winter solstice sunset paintings.

Today we took some extra time to enjoy the beautiful snow and to build and create. We have been studying three dimensional shape during our Number Corner time. We noticed two dimensional shapes in our snow angels and we built big snow spheres. It is a good thing they can roll!

First graders have been busy working on writing small moment stories. Today we thought about all we have learned during Writing Workshop and we created a checklist to help us when we revise and edit our favorite pieces. See our checklist below!

Small Moment Checklist

First graders have been talking all about gratitude this week. Click here to listen. 

Below are books students created to celebrate some of the many things that they are grateful to have in their lives.

First graders learned all about fire safety yesterday. We had the opportunity to see gear being put on by a fireperson and we saw some of the special equipment that is carried by fire trucks. Ask your child to tell you about what they learned.

Today we took a walk, explored and created with nature. Some of us even made some SNAP words. Can you spot them?

This week we finished up our work with our comunity rules and our dreams for the 20-21 school year. 

See our dreams here!