April 22 , 2016
THE CARPENTER CHRONICLES
Language:
We are loving Lulu’s
new adventure Lulu’s
Mysterious Mission. We are
making predictions before
each new chapter. We
enjoyed working on various
Reader’s Theaters in small
groups. Mrs. Carpenter
will be assigning characters
to us next week. We have
been reading poems from a
variety of poetry books. We
wrote a self-portrait poem,
and Mrs. Carpenter taught
us how to use wordle.net to
turn our poem into a word
picture. We can access this
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through Mrs. Carpenter’s
webpage. We helped Mrs.
Carpenter write a poem
about First Grade, and we
have written several
original poems and shared
them with our classmates.
Mathematics:
We focused a lot on
adding and subtracting
strategies this week. We
played several math games
to give us a lot of practice.
We are also looking at
different ways to add two
digit numbers to multiples
of ten, examples: 43 + 30,
56 + 20. We can add the
numbers in the tens place
using mental math or find
one number on the 100
chart and count on by tens.
Content:
We read the book Rosie
Revere, Engineer. We
talked about making
mistakes, but not giving up.
We watched a few videos
of homemade marble
mazes and marble runs.
We are designing our own
mazes in a small group
using recycled materials
that Mrs. Carpenter has
gathered over the past few
months.