Jefferson School PJ Day tomorrow! Have your child wear PJ's and bring a blanket/stuffed animal to snuggle up and read with!

Secret Sight Words!!!!

As a fun way of practicing sight words, the class painted holiday lights which "revealed" mystery sight words! They loved the activity!

Movement Breaks

We work hard. We focus. We learn. Movement breaks are essential in helping us do our best. My favorite websites are Gonoodle.com and Calm.com for fun activities for kids. Check them out! Here's a video of our class from earlier this week!

All About Recess-Interactive Writing

Over the last few weeks, we jumped right in to a new writing genre-nonfiction! We started out by brainstorming what we were "experts" in. As you can imagine, first graders are all about what they know and are very eager to share! We generated quite a list of topics and then I modeled how to break down their topic into categories. From there, I showed them how to take notes and eventually turn those notes into paragraphs that teach the reader new facts about their topic. While paragraphing and exciting leads are not technically a first grade standard, coming from third grade, I felt compelled to challenge them....and they rose to the occasion! Once they saw how writers go through steps to put together an all about book, we decided to write one together. This time, they did most of the work! Recess was chosen as their expert topic & they came up with rules, what to wear, playing & equipment as their categories. It took a solid week, but they wrote their own piece on chart paper, with interesting leads & supporting details!!!! Today, we edited it (with our magic editing glasses) & tomorrow it will be published! They have also each written an all about on a topic of their choice. This first attempt will be coming home next week for you to enjoy! So proud of my little munchkins!