Mrs. McClurg’s First Grade
September 18-22, 2023
Concepts Covered This Week
Religion:
- We participated in a School Mass.
- We attended Adoration in the Church. We spent time praying, listening, and talking to God.
- We learned that with charity, we can love like God loves. We discussed ways we can be a gift of love to others.
- We discussed how God is our loving Father in Heaven.
Language Arts:
- We practiced reading more sight words.
- We wrote and illustrated words in the -in and –ig word families.
- We identified the characters and actions in several poems and stories.
- We practiced the correct formation of the letters b,c, d,f,g.h,l,m,n,p,qu, r and t.
- We reviewed many consonant sounds.
- We used words from our phonic readers to write sentences about animals and our families.
- We wrote a journal entry talking about an action we can do with our bodies.
Math:
- We ordered numbers from 0 to 12 and learned how we can use ordinal names to describe number order.
- We used the words before, after and between to describe the relationship of numbers in order.
- We looked at how some numbers follow patterns.
- We practiced making and reading simple graphs.
- We filled in our calendar, weather graph and number chart and counted money to correspond with the number of days in school.
Social Studies/Science:
- We learned how to focus attention on the person talking. We used hand signals for the following clues: Eyes watching, Ears listening, Mouth quiet, Body still.
- We talked about how everyone gets distracted sometimes. We practiced some strategies to help ourselves pay attention.
- We discussed ways to be a good citizen in the classroom and local community. We role played ways to do this in different situations.
- We used watercolors to paint fall landscapes.
Specialist Classes- Physical Education/Art/Music/Spanish/Library:
- In art we learned about analogous color: Red-Orange-Yellow / Blue-Green-Purple. We used this concept with soft pastels to finish our symmetric butterflies.
- In Spanish we practiced the names of the farm animals. We watched a “guess the animal” video and made our own “guess the animal” books. We’ll send the books home to share with our families soon!
- In music we Listened actively to move to the music of Seven Jumps, used egg shakers as sound effects to tell a story (Mortimer by Robert Munsch). We Sang the song Snail, Snail and practiced special awareness by walking a spiral as a class while singing the song.
- In physical education we This week in PE we learned how to strike an object with our different parts of our hands and body using balloons.
- At the library, we listened to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear and made a page for our class books. We checked out a book of personal interest.
