Friday, February 20

We started with the shoe greeting which is probably my students favorite greeting to do. Then we shared about our exciting weekend ahead. It sounds like many fun things will be happening. After that we went off to tiger time. When we got back, we started working on telling time. If you notice, your child is bringing home an analog clock to practice telling time on. First graders are expected to master telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks This is a really tricky concept so please continue to work on it at home. We will be working on it all of next week as well.

Then we tested our spelling skills on the long o and long u sounds. This also proved to be tricky. Keep working hard on these skills at home to help your child learn these phonetic skills. These skills will carry over into his/her reading. We also talked about the suffixes -y and -ful this afternoon and did a little word sort and writing using words with these suffixes.

Finally this afternoon we did a writing about hot chocolate. We wrote about how, where, when and who with we like to drink hot chocolate. Then we made it into an art project. As a special treat, we enjoyed some hot chocolate while listening to our guest readers. Stay warm and have a great weekend! Remember to check the pages for what we will be up to next week!