They made silly, longer, more descriptive sentences, and they did a great job!
We just finished a big writing project so to take a break, we are learning about parts of speech. Our first graders learned about adjectives, nouns, verbs, and prepositional phrases (minimally). They made silly, longer, more descriptive sentences, and they did a great job!
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I was (selfishly) so excited to have some surprise guests stop by on Tuesday afternoon. My good friends from Norway, Anna and Grethe, were in the States and chose to spend a part of their visit at TMP. It was such a fun treat to learn from people who live in a place so far away from us. The kids quickly located Norway on their beloved globe. I quickly scrounged up some photos that I took when I visited Anna and Grethe, and we discussed rural and urban communities. The kids impressed our visitors with their knowledge of types of communities. They explained how they knew our guests lived in an urban area due to the narrow roads, lack of yards, vertical living space, and public transportation. They also identified that Anna and Grethe's "summer home" was in a rural area. I am very biased because two of my favorite people got to meet my favorite students, but I thought it was such an authentic discussion of what we've been learning in social studies! P.S. Thanks to Anna and Grethe for our new class pet moose (king of the forest as it's known in Norway) and the delicious Norwegian candy! This week and last week we are in the middle of a geometry unit. We've labeled and listed characteristics of plane shapes and solid figures. The kids did a great job learning terms like sides and corners for plane shapes, and faces, edges, and vertices for solid figures. They used tangrams to make pictures using shapes. They also learned the names of the shapes and figures: circle, square, rectangle, rectangular prism, sphere, cylinder, cube, and cone. The past few weeks we have been learning about different communities. We've discussed the differences between rural, suburban, and urban communities. As we learned about each one, we put that information into a web. At the end of our unit, we did a really cool craft project that allowed us to make 3-D replicas of each type of community. |
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