Love my firsties, seconds, and fifthsters! : February 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

An Inspiring Video

I saw this a few months ago, and I thought it was a must-share. This video is moving, and just shows how crucial it is to use technology in the classroom.

Monday, February 27, 2012

We are reviewing this week, since last week was so crazy. For writing, we are working on revising our work. For reading, we are really focusing on intonation, and expression while reading. In math today, our focus was using different shapes to create another shape. Fun day, so far!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Black History Research

I am impressed that my 1st graders used books and the Internet to research famous African Ameicans. They researched and worked together in groups/pairs to create a poster. I was so impressed! Check it out.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Wacky Wednesday

The Official GLASSES club

Reading with the Reading-Sunglasses

We had a fun day today. I gave all my students SWEET READER checks, which is AWESOME! The kids were really putting their best foot forward today, and showing a lot of effort and improvement with following the rules. We learned all about shapes, vertices, and sides of 2-d figures. I had the kids act out their shape, for example, one student would go to the front of the room, and say "I am a curved shape. I have no vertices, or flat surfaces..." and the kids would raise their hands and say "are you a circle!?"

Friday, February 17, 2012

Newsletter for Week of 2/17/2012

A Glimpse from the Week

We did a Reader's Theatre in groups, which was fun because they practiced their lines, like real professionals!

We also have been learning about 3-D geometrical shapes.

Also, I went to the celebration of one of our students, Jacob. He "graduated" from a tutoring group. So proud of you!