Peacocks, peacocks, and more peacocks! That's repetition! Ask your first grader why authors sometimes use repetition in their writing!
We did Star in Motion in the gym. -Cedrus
We had two Kind Kids Club meetings this week. -Cooper
We did "F is for Fireworks" for our America book. -Juan Carlos
We learned about iridescent feathers. -Nya
We read Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Day with Ms. Hines for Kind Kids Club. -Ryan
We learned about a new animal, the Indian Peafowl. -Aaqil
We learned that peacocks have long feather trains. They are longer than their bodies. -Anshika
We read Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. -Alex
We learned that peahens don't have colorful feathers because they have to blend in to protect their babies. -Deniz
We made a panda song with adjectives, a noun, and a verb. -Jaykob
Ask your first grader to sing it to you!
The peacock's feathers shine to get the females' attention. -Isandro
We did the "I Can Spell Anthropologist" chant. -Fabiana
I remember from last week that there is a mountain in Asia called Mount Everest. It's so tall that you can touch a cloud. -Damion
We learned the word "solution." -Jade
We do fireworks for 4th of July to celebrate independence. -Allyson
We added some pictures to our charts. We put a picture of a mom with her eggs on the peacock chart. -Anahi
We sang "Pandas Here, Pandas There." -Lorenzo
Miss Kloczko used a real peacock feather for a pointer one day. -Tanaya
We did a team task of a peacock. -Tianna (The photos below are of the "Pandas Here, Pandas There" team task and the peacock team task.)
We used repetition in our writing this week. We learned about repetition from Panda and Polar Bear. -Jules
We made a story map for Panda and Polar Bear. -Indigo
We put the pictures from Panda and Polar Bear on a chart to help us remember the story. -Carol
I liked Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. -Liam
The kids got to "Read to Someone" this week. We talked about sitting "elbow to elbow, knee to knee," and taking turns reading in a whisper, so only our partner can hear us. They did great! -Miss Kloczko
Check out two of this week's homework digital challenges!
A few "proud teacher" moments this week...
"LOOK! It's repetition!"
"I just learned that the boy peacocks show off their feathers to make the peahens fall in love."
"Tigers live alone! That's like our signal word, solitary!"
Finally, a special thank you to Lorenzo's mom for being this week's mystery reader!
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Can you believe we have been back at school for a whole month already?! Here's what your first graders (and bald eagle experts) had to say about the fourth week of school:
We wrote stories about something disappointing. -Deniz
We read Bear Has a Story to Tell. -Kyara
We used the chromebooks to listen to books. -Alex
We made a song about skunks. -Jade Have your first grader sing a song to you using our chart!
We did a fire drill. -Cedrus
We made bald eagles. We cut out our hands to make the wings. -Jaykob
We read part of the baby animals book. We learned about baby black bears. -Lorenzo
We watched part of Brother Bear because its setting is the coniferous forest. -Fabiana
We made another class book called Stuck. -Nya Watch Oliver Jeffers read the original Stuck here!
We figured out that Chewbacca from Star Wars is a mammal. We know that because he has fur. -Damion
We read two books about bald eagles. -Anahi
We learned what oviparous means. We learned that bald eagles don't have sharp teeth to tear apart their food, but they do have sharp talons and a sharp beak. -Tanaya
We read Hello, Fredbird because Miss Kloczko likes the Cardinals. When I was in TK, Miss Kloczko liked the Giants. -Juan Carlos
We learned the word carnivore. -Aaqil
We did the E page in our America book. E is for eagle. We learned that skunk babies are called kits. -Anshika
We made the C page in our America book. C is for constitution. -Parker
We crumpled up the constitution to make it look old. -Isandro
We learned that the bald eagle only eats meat. -Carol
Our third grade buddies came to read with us. I remember that when skunks spray it is called musk. -Ryan
We learned that the sum is the answer to an addition problem. -Jared
We learned that the bald eagle's wingspan can be up to 8 feet. -Cooper
The bald eagle is a symbol for the United States of America. -Kendall
A symbol is something that stands for something else. -Jules
We learned that the bald eagle has brown and white feathers. -Allyson
We are in the computer lab for the first time right now! -Indigo
The bald eagle's claws are called talons. -Lea
Baby bald eagles are called eaglets. -Tianna
We read Not a Box. -Liam
This week I received two bald eagles (one, a picture printed out from vacation and the other, drawn and labeled at home). Also, on more than one morning before school, I was presented with "a cone from a coniferous tree!" AND we met our stamina goal on Tuesday! We read for 20 minutes straight! (And we only stopped because we had to go to lunch!) -Miss Kloczko
Just for fun, check out our padlet from this week's homework!
Have to share this too. :)
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