This week we instituted class helpers, also known as "Classroom Contributors." The kids each got to create their own name card, which were then pulled at random to fulfill the different roles. Roles are kept for a whole week and then new cards are drawn!
In other news, the school has updated its website and it looks awesome! You can check it out at www.kealakehe.k12.us Be sure to click on "Student's Websites" on the right hand side to check out lots of great kid-friendly games and educational sites!
Monday was"Discoverer's Day" also known as "Columbus Day". We read in our weekly Scholastic News" reader about a man who believes that he has found the sunken Santa Maria!
This week in writing we wrote about how our body moves when we do different activities. The kids got to act them out first and had a lot of fun! We got to see how our arms and legs move in different ways depending on what we are doing. Then we wrote about it!
"I am spinning.
My arms are up.
My legs are twisting."
"I running.
My arms make a circle.
My legs run fast."
We finished our "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle" book before break. So this week we started a new chapter book for our daily read aloud! It's the story of a little girl named Ramona, who is a six year old girl about to start first grade.
In math this week we started learning aout strategies that we can use to help us solve subtraction. We learned that we can "think addition" to solve subtraction.
For example to solve 10 -6, I can think 6 + __ =10.
One way we practiced this is by having 6 volunteers write an addition fact on the board. Then 6 more volunteers came up to write a related subtraction fact. They did so awesome!
On Monday the first quarter winners of the Million Miles Campaign were announced. And guess what... We won for first grade! As a class we collected over 600 tickets, which equals more than 80 miles! Way to go P2!
Hope you all stay this weekend. Please stay tuned to the news for any further school closers.
See you next week!
Mrs. Kawai
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