This Week in First Grade

Here's what our first graders had to say about our week!

We read with our reading buddies. -Rohin

We ate lunch. -Jacob

We saw some Digital Challenge Math videos. -Sarah
(You can watch them on YouTube here!)

We learned about the bald eagle. -Thomas

We learned about the pallid bat. -Ariana

I read with Owen, my friend. -Cedric

We learned about the Kind Kids Club. -Katherine

We went to snack and recess. -Jalen

We made songs about black bears. -Amaru

We read lots of new books, like The Quiet Book. -Analisa

We went to recess. -Wesley

We made seahorses with Milo's mom for Fun Friday. -Leila

We got to watch book trailers on the iPads for Read with Technology. -Milana

We did art with my mom and she was the Mystery Reader. -Milo

We made a poster for Mr. Carlos and Mr. Nolan, my dad. -Courtney

We made videos of our chants with our teams. -Jacquelyn

We read The Monster Who Lost His Mean. -AJ

We read Alaska's 12 Days of Summer and it was a song. -Ainsley

We wrote in our Writer's Notebooks. -Eliana

Thank you to Amaru's mom for the photo!

We read to Jaquelyn's mom during Read to Someone during Reader's Workshop. -Emma

We did a pallid bat chant. -Noah K.

We did the Pledge of Allegiance. -Noah T.

We did Fit Friday. -Hailey

We did Morning Work. -Isaiah

We learned new things about the coniferous forest and earned awards. -Olivia

We shopped the library. -Parker

We got to see some awesome writing shared by a few of our first grade authors...

And we used chromebooks to log into our very own google accounts with Mr. Wood! -Miss Kloczko

Thanks, Mr. Wood, for the photo!

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New books!

Some new books were just delivered this afternoon! Tomorrow you'll be able to find all of these books in our classroom library. :)

Do you think you might like to read one of these books? Would you like to recommend a book you love to our first grade class? (Miss Kloczko is ALWAYS looking for and buying new books!) Leave a comment below!

Digital Challenge #1!

This week's homework included our very first Digital Challenge! (First graders, if you haven't completed the challenge yet, you can do it now!) Check out the padlet below to see what we are learning in first grade!

Has your first grader taught you any new words this year? Parents and families, leave a comment on this post and let us know!

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Student Blogger: Milana

We were at Donner Lake waiting for our turn to ride on the big float behind the jet-ski. While I was waiting sort-of patiently, I explored the coniferous forest, and I found a really cool tree that had twisty branches. Then, I discovered some tiny pebbles and some sand that was good wet sand and some sticks. Then I made a sand castle while I was waiting so it could be fun while I was waiting. My favorite pinecone I found was the triangle one. The other ones look all cool, but they are all normal.

Week 3: all settled in... with books!

All 26 first graders happily settled in with their books!

Hello first graders, families, and friends!

Today was another awesome day in first grade, but my favorite part was Reader's Workshop! First, we read the book Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff.



Then we voted... which book did you like better? Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff or Baby Bear by Kadir Nelson? (We watched the book trailer for Baby Bear this week for homework, and read it together on Wednesday. You can watch the book trailer for Baby Bear below.)



We talked a little bit about why we liked each book. Was it the pictures? The characters? The words the authors used to tell the story? It was so cool to see the kids making connections between the two books and to the things they have been learning about the forest habitat! We voted with our eyes closed, on which book we liked better, and it was a tie, 13-13!

After our time at the carpet, it was time for the kids to get out their own book bags and do some reading on their own. We have been working on building our reading stamina, and today we broke our record! Every student in the class was engaged with their own books for 7 minutes and 24 seconds, without stopping even once! I was SO impressed! (Our record before today was 2:50!)

After our independent reading time was over, we read another book together, I Will Surprise My Friend by Mo Willems. That was the funniest book I have read in a LONG time, and it made me so happy to see all of my first graders laugh so hard at Piggie and Gerald! :) Thank you to the special first grader who donated this book to our classroom library!

Thanks for reading! Are you a reader, too? What have you read lately? Do you have any book recommendations for our first grade class? Please leave a comment!

Welcome to first grade!

Hello first grade friends and family! We are now in the middle of our second week of school, and already, we're off to a great start. But what have we been doing?

We learned about the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the earth and where they are all located on a world map!

We learned what stamina means, and how important it is to have stamina when we are reading and writing. 

We met our reading buddies from Ms. Steinlein's third grade class. 

We learned about how to choose "just right" books... The right book for you will fit "just right," like your favorite pair of shoes. :)

We discussed ways that we can show respect to our supplies, our classroom, and most importantly, to each other!

We "put our heads together" to make predictions about new words, like "continent" and "habitat."

We talked about what writers actually do during writing time, and learned that there's more to it than just writing!

We had our first Fitness Friday!

We started making our heart maps, containing all of the things that we love and care about, to use when we are writing and can't think of a topic to write about. After all, it's easiest to write about things we love!

We reviewed addition and subtraction by playing games like "Addition Roll 'Em."

We started learning about the black bear, a mammal that lives in North America!

We learned classroom procedures and rules, such as how to put our supplies away when we are finished with them, and what to do when we finish our work early.

We read LOTS of books together!

Thanks for reading our blog! Do you have a question for our class about our time in first grade so far? Leave a comment!