To market, to market
After earning money and learning about saving, spending, and donating, first graders headed to the marketplace!
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After earning money and learning about saving, spending, and donating, first graders headed to the marketplace!
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Writers in Room 123 used what they have learned about opinion writing to create ads for the notebooks they will sell at the First Grade Marketplace. The ads will be shared with the other first grade classes to convince them to buy our goods!
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Spend, save, donate? How do people make good choices about money?
Inspired by Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, students in Room 123 are learning to do just that. They began by exploring the concepts of needs, wants, goods, and services.
Then they went to work, decorating notebooks that they will sell to other students at the First Grade Marketplace. They will be able to spend the money they earned at the notebook factory at the marketplace, or they may decide to save or donate that money.
First grade mathematicians have been learning about the attributes of 2-dimensional shapes. Then they used the shapes to create new shapes. Take a look!
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Students in Room 123 have earned a lot of Tiger Tickets for showing the Richards Way at school! Of course, students wondered exactly how many tickets there are in our bin. Finding the answer to this question provided a chance to review place value counting concepts and practice different strategies for adding double-digit addition problems!
First, students counted tickets individually and then worked in pairs to add the amounts together. Take a look at the process!
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Partners shared their totals.
The class gathered to add those amounts.
The grand total? 687 Tiger Tickets!
During both language studies and science, students have been learning about insects. They have directly observed our mealworms as these insects moved through their life cycle. They have also read and analyzed nonfiction texts about insects, confirming their schema and adding new learning.
This week, students began reading poetry about insects–specifically bees. After I read one of Douglas Florian’s poems, students drew on both the imagery from the poem and their own knowledge of insects to visualize the poem. Take a look!
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Guidance Counselor Mr. Dillner visited Room 123 and shared a story that encourages students to be true to themselves. Students engaged is a lively discussion and activity after the story!