Ninety-Second Day

Today we reviewed our last official spelling-card spellings. We discussed the interesting word 'employ' as a synonym for 'use', or 'to make use of'. We deduced the spelling for schwa spelled 'ou' in a spelling game (e.g. trouble, couple). We completed work on our social studies world map and many went home today with a message to parents. Our test should occur the first Friday in March. Please remember that in order to pass social studies this semester, students are required to locate and name all 7 continents, 4 oceans, and Los Angeles on an unlabeled world map.

I have almost completed the fluency assessments for week 18. We now have 15 students reaching the district required fluency level for first grade. That is up 3 from the last test. Many other exciting gains have been made. Improvements have been made in writing across the board.

We continued work on topic 14 with adding with 9 for homework.

As an aside, thanks to all the parents for your participation in this forum. Our blog has received our two-thousandth page view today.

Eighteenth Day

We began our circle map for our chosen animal for research. Some of the suggested questions for the map included, what the animal looks like, eats, does, and where it lives. Please be aware of your child's choice of animal and be discussing it with them. As an update, six children have completed their personal double bubble maps. Six children have completed their personal circle maps.

We reviewed the concepts of antonym and synonym and applied the ideas orally and in writing.

In math we used logic to construct models for parts of seven. Tomorrow we will construct a report to record our models.

For homework children will complete the reading/writing page for "t".