As readers this week, students focused on looking for the lesson in a story and to keep it with them to use in their own lives. We also met with our G5 reading buddies on Wednesday to wrap up Poetry Month. Students shared several poems with...
On Wednesday, G1 met with our G5 reading buddies to wrap up Poetry Month. Our class shared poems from our poetry notebook and G5 students helped us write poems with different rhyme schemes. We had fun coming up with rhyming words about our favorite animals...
Here are some photos from the Music Showcase rehearsal. Grade 1 especially is looking and sounding phenomenal! Looking forward to seeing everyone Friday and Saturday for the performance! [envira-gallery id="1228"]...
In reading this week, students learned to reread to notice more about a character by looking at the pictures and the words. We used what we learned to really "become" our characters and make our voices match their feelings as we read. Students learned how to...
Today we celebrated the end of ASA Season 3 with demonstrations from many of the activity groups. The assembly kicked off with a song from the whole elementary school, including G1 solos! Then we saw some reader's theater, aikido, guitar, break dancing, piano, hand drums,...
This week in reading, students learned to connect parts of the story together when rereading. We also began a new shared reading book, Mr. Putter & Tabby Drop the Ball, in which our goal is to learn all we can about the characters. Students worked on showing, not...
This morning author Ammi-Joan Paquette visited us! This was her second visit to Lincoln School. Joan talked to us about her writing process, getting ideas for books, and how she became an author. She told us more about her first published book, "The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking...
Welcome back from spring break! It sounds like everyone enjoyed the week off. Monday is a holiday, so students will return to school on Tuesday. This week in reading, students practiced retelling a story after reading, by going back to tell the big events in order from...
Since the fall and our vermiculture assembly, the G1 classroom has been home to a container of worms! We've kept them in a cool, dark place in a cabinet under the sink and fed them food scraps and newspaper strips here and there to keep...
It was so great seeing everyone who came to International Day & the Service Expo on Saturday! If you missed it, find out more about G1's service learning project progress on our class website. This week we began a new shared reading book, Iris and Walter and the Field...
