The first 2 weeks are over and i am feeling more comfortable. The first week, we did a fiction book about clubs, compared the story with other books, created club rules, and met each other.
The second week we read an informational fiction about spiders. On Monday, the students complete an altered KWL chart telling 5 things they knew about spiders and 5 questions they had about spiders. I used partner reading, by handing each child an orange or blue number when they walked in and they read with the student who had the match. They then discussed comprehension questions.
On Tuesday we discussed nonfiction work. We talked about facts versus opinions, plagiarism (or the first grade equivalent) and parts of nonfiction books, such as diagrams and labels, the table of contents and the glossary. The students completed a glyph about their opinions of spiders and labeled the parts of spiders.
The second week we read an informational fiction about spiders. On Monday, the students complete an altered KWL chart telling 5 things they knew about spiders and 5 questions they had about spiders. I used partner reading, by handing each child an orange or blue number when they walked in and they read with the student who had the match. They then discussed comprehension questions.
On Tuesday we discussed nonfiction work. We talked about facts versus opinions, plagiarism (or the first grade equivalent) and parts of nonfiction books, such as diagrams and labels, the table of contents and the glossary. The students completed a glyph about their opinions of spiders and labeled the parts of spiders.
- Spider Diagram -
- Spider Glyph - http://www.abcteach.com/free/g/glyph_spider.pdf
- Spider Fact Project
On Wednesday, the students used nonfiction books from the school library to find 8 facts about spiders. The students were writing the facts on gray strips of 1in X 9in paper.
On Thursday, the students completed their spider facts and created a fact spider (using the gray strips for the spiders eight legs).
Our groups do not meet on Friday, due to testing in the homerooms. We are skipping groups next week, because of UF homecoming on Friday and a play we are attending on Tuesday. We feel that skipping the groups will allow us to cover all reading material and be able to test on Thursday.
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I love the spider fact project. What a cute idea and great reinforcement for fact and opinion. I bet the kids enjoyed it and it is timely with Halloween. There is nothing scarier than a creepy spider :)
Best wishes with your first graders!!
:) Garnette
Garnette Knapp
EME 5405
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