Catching up from the last 2 weeks-- comparing numbers, place value, expanded form, science buddies, past vs. present, Dowser Dan and link party!

Last week, my class won their first link party. We have link parties when the link touches the floor. Mrs. Skalaban has quite some more links to go... My homeroom class voted for a “toy party” so we had our toy party. We haven’t voted on our next party yet.

I have slowly started setting out VLA centers. I feel like I am constantly prepping centers for class so if anyone has any free time, any help is appreciated. It would save me a lot of time if I could get someone to help me laminate and cut.

Sorry in advance for all the paper that’s been going home in their daily folders. I’m not a worksheet type of teacher, but we’ve been doing a lot of worksheets on comparing numbers. We also have been doing more bilingual buddies in math too.

When comparing numbers, I teach the kids that the alligator always wants to eat the big, juicy number. 

We have been doing a lot of place value this past month. Place value is so important because it teaches the kids that a number is not just a symbol or number but there is value behind that number. To save time, we draw a line (stick) to represent 10 and dots to represent ones.

New fun math centers!

We had our monthly science buddies on Thursday. Ask your child what they did with candy on this day. It's so cute to see how excited both first graders and fifth graders get excited to see their science buddies.

Last week, Dowser Dan came and helped us learned about the water cycle through songs, acting and posters. 

In Mrs. Skalaban’s, the kids finally finished up their unit on bats and wrote bat fats. 

We did our monthly Vietnamese writing on Friday. These get hung up on class for a little while and at the end of the year, it gets added to their end-of-the-year first grade books.

In SS, we learned about past, present, and future! We drew a picture of us from the past (baby), present (right now) and in the future (when they’re all old and wrinkly!)

 We received our class pet for the next two weeks. This time, they’re hissing cockroaches!!!

Mrs. Cardosa, our school counselor, came in and did a lesson on tattling. She taught when it is okay to tattle and when it’s a small problem that you can solve. She used the terms “tattling” and “reporting.”