Ms. Malaney Takes Over

This morning marked the beginning of my three week experience as our classroom’s lead teacher. We started our Monday morning in a similar fashion with reading and writing. I was so delighted to see how many students brought in strong feelings to write in their tiny idea books. In poetry we worked on comparing things we love to real world objects. Again we turned to our mentor Zoe Ryder White and read her poem “Inside my Heart.”  It’s amazing to see how the class is beginning to grasp the concept of emulating a poet’s work. This week I will work to remove the highly structured poems we have been working with and allow each student to explore creating poetry.

In social studies today we studied time capsules and decided to make our very own A-7 time capsule. Below is a copy of the note that was sent home with your student. We won’t be creating the time capsule until after spring break so no rush on collecting things. In addition to the artifacts we collect, each student will be submitting a note to the time capsule about their year in first grade at Burns Park School.

 

Mrs. Ambrosino has been reading The Indian in the Cupboard to our class for several weeks. Now that I will be leading the class for the next few weeks I decided to choose a new chapter book to read to the class. Today I began reading Lemon Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events-The Bad Beginning. It is a great 13 book series I couldn't help but introduce them to.