Monthly Archives: January 2014

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Here are December’s pictures from our class photographer! Aquí están las fotos de diciembre de nuestro fotógrafo clase! Read More →

These pictures were taken by our class photographer. This is one of our class jobs and it changes every day so each student is class photographer about once each month. They wear the camera on a lanyard around their neck all day (or as long as they want) and take pictures. These pictures are from […] Read More →

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At the beginning of the school year we shared our hopes and dreams for first grade. We are still working together to make those hopes and dreams come true. Now, at the start of 2014, we each made a goal for the rest of first grade. These are things that are hard for us right […] Read More →

 One of the biggest ideas we work on in first grade is breaking apart numbers. Understanding the difference between 28 and 82 is challenging when one is just learning it. In these pictures you can see how we built numbers using long sticks (to represent groups of 10s) and cubes (to represent single ones). Una […] Read More →

 A while back we had some special guests come to see how we learn math. They are all students at George Mason University and are studying to become teachers. We got to show off how smart and fabulous we are. Hace un tiempo tuvimos algunos invitados especiales vienen a ver la manera de aprender matemáticas. […] Read More →

        We begin every day with our morning meeting. One student is in charge of it and is our meeting manager. That job changes every day. The meeting manager starts our meeting with a greeting. They shake hands and say good morning to the next student and it continues all the way […] Read More →

Before the winter break we worked for a week on digital stories. We planned our stories, told them to a friend several times to practice, and then recorded them in Pixie. After recording we listened to our stories and then illustrated them on the computers. Hopefully we will be able to share our stories soon […] Read More →