Friday 12/5

Working hard on how-to books! 

Progress reports are in your child's folder. I had a one-on-one conversation with each child on Friday about how proud I am of them as well as their goal.  Look forward to sitting down with each of you in the next week or two. 

Have a nice weekend! 

Thursday 12/4

We had two special visitors from Swampscott Public Schools observing our class today to see Scratch Jr in action.  They were super impressed with the projects the first graders have created so far. Their task has been to make one character interact with another character, with obstacles in the way!

Here are some of the reasons why we love coding:

Working together to organize our classroom supplies!  

Tuesday 12/2

Word games- practicing am, an & all and sight words. 

Comparing containers- ask your child which held the greatest amount of water. 

Wednesday 12/3

In Math, our focus is on comparing.  Today our activities were focusing around comparing lengths with nonstandard measurement (cubes).  Check out our vine here

wish list

We are in need of Ziploc bags of all sizes... Snack, sandwich, quart or gallon!

Thank you for your donations :-)

Thanksgiving week

This week I posted my updates on Twitter. Here they are!  Follow me @MrsMelnik1 

I'm also one of adminstators on the Thompson School Facebook page, lots of likes on our pictures already!  

Follow our school's page: https://www.facebook.com/ThompsonSchoolArlington

Appsmashing! Using more than one app to create a project. Visit Kidblog.org/mrsmelnik to see them! 

https://twitter.com/mrsmelnik1/status/537757242276478976

Weather workshop 

https://twitter.com/mrsmelnik1/status/537752408945078272

Thanks to our speech and language teacher for leading a lesson on sentences.  Ask your child to tell you three naming and telling parts about a turkey! 

https://twitter.com/mrsmelnik1/status/537750250732417024

All school assembly https://twitter.com/mrsmelnik1/status/537749241821925376

Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm thankful for you, your children and coming to a place each day that makes me smile. 

https://twitter.com/mrsmelnik1/status/537753953237499906

Monday, 12/1

The focus during Fundations was on glued sounds (-am like ham, -an like fan, -all like ball).  I forgot to take a picture of the many words we thought of with these word families, oops!

The kids had some time to explore Scratch Jr. today.  See the Vine here.

2 new mentor texts for How-To Books.

Math Stations 

Slides and Ladders with doubles 

Compare Cards 

10 is 3 more than 7.

Popcorn

Happy December!  I hope everyone had a nice time with family during Thanksgiving break.  The morning question was to write on the board a yummy food you ate this weekend.  Pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, apple cake, candy!

Saturday I had my high school reunion! Here's a picture with some of my closest friends from Danbury.