Welcome to Asia!

Our first week studying a new continent... Welcome to Asia! Here's what your first graders wanted to share about this week:

We had picture day. My friends and I dressed up. -Anahi

I liked learning about the panda. I love science. -Kendall

One of this week's homework digital challenges!

I wrote a lot! -Jared

We had a spelling test today. -Lea

We decorated our new writer's notebooks. -Parker

We jumped to move to the side in "Boom Boom Pow." We learned that from watching Mrs. Mandujano. -Alex

"Informative" was one of our signal words. -Nya

We read Three Hens and a Peacock. I liked that the peacock couldn't even lay an egg and the chickens couldn't get the cars to stop. -Juan Carlos

We learned that the panda has a bone that acts like a thumb so it can hold stuff like bamboo. -Damion

Now we have "Pandas Here, Pandas There." -Jade

We made a chart for kindness and got team points for kindness. -Isandro

Parents came to read with us. -Indigo

When we put our smart cards on the world map, Miss Kloczko forgot Europe. -Kyara

We put pictures on the world map for Asia. -Aaqil

We had a mystery reader. It was Nya's mom and she read One to us. It's about being kind. -Cooper

New books came in the mail. -Allyson

We got new teams. I'm on the orangutans. -Liam

We read Chickens Aren't the Only Ones. -Fabiana

We put smart cards on the map and on the panda. -Jules

We made pandas during Fun Friday. -Carol

We read Panda and Polar Bear. -Lorenzo 

We read Panda-Monium! with Mr. M. -Tianna

We wrote about ourselves in our writer's notebooks. -Jaykob

We watched a video about pandas. There was an earthquake. -Tanaya

Mr. M read us a book. -Anshika

We put sticky notes on posters for Asia during workshop. -Deniz

This week, the kids jumped right into Asia, wrote in their new notebooks, began a new chapter in math, and did great on their first spelling test! We reviewed expectations for writer's workshop after decorating our new notebooks, we learned new chants and signal words, and had our pictures taken! We LOVED having parent volunteers in our classroom! Thank you, parents, for all of your help and support and for sharing your smart and silly first graders with me every day! -Miss Kloczko

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