OREO Day!

We had another awesome week!  The kiddos continue to amaze me at how well they are adjusting to first grade.  I know how big of an adjustment it is going from Kindergarten to first grade....and they are doing amazing! 

 

This week we continued to practice our routines and procedures for reading and math.  I am in awe at how well they are doing with this.  Students at this point usually still need me to help manage the activities, however this group of kiddos are able to do them with very little help from me.  This is exciting because it means I can start meeting with my guided reading groups next week! 

 

Here is what we have been up to around the classroom:

In reading we read the story The Storm.  We continued to talk about words that describe the characters in the story.  We learned all about short i words (pig, fit, is, it) and did lots of fun games working with short i words.  In Science, we learned about the 4 seasons.  We read books, watched a Brain Pop video, and even made hand print trees that represented the 4 seasons.  In Writing, we are working on handwriting and learning how to correctly form our letters!

In Math we have been working with numbers 0-30.  We have been practicing counting by 1, 2, 5, and 10's.  We are counting both forwards and backwards. We learned how to make tally marks and figure out if the number is even or odd.  We have also been talking about which number is greater than or less than.  To wrap up our unit on numbers, we did a fun activity with OREOs.  The goal was to see how high we could stack the OREOs before they toppled over. The students worked with a partner trying to get the highest stack of OREOs.  While one student was stacking, the other student was counting.   It was so fun to see the students stacking and counting.....trying to get the highest number.  Our highest stack was 21 OREOs high!!!  

After we stacked our OREOs we tasted different flavors of OREOs.  We created a graph that showed which flavor we liked the best.  Thank you for all the OREO donations you sent in!  Fun projects like this are not possible without the support from home!

 

This is a fun activity that you can do at home with your child.  How high do you think you can stack the OREO's???? Do you think you can make a tower greater than 21? 

Happy Stacking!