Screening River Rocks

Today in Science, we explored different ways to separate a river rock mixture. At first, we used our hands, but then we used screens. We found out that if a rock was too large to go through a screen, it stayed on top of the screen. We were able to use three different screens. We are so excited to do more separating later in the week.

Complete Sentences

Today we had to sort complete sentences and not complete sentences. This was very tricky! Once we were done with this, we went back through our writing binders to review our writing and correct any sentences that were not sentences.

C and G Sounds

Today we learned about C and G having two different sounds. C makes sounds like K and S. G makes sounds like J and the hard G sound. Then we played concentration reading and matching the beginning sounds of words.

Sharing Non-Fiction Books

We have been working hard at writing non-fiction books in first grade. It is fun to teach other people something we know "all about." Today we shared our books with the first graders in Mrs. Rasmussen's class and they shared their books with us!

Fractions

We have been exploring fractions during math. Today, we used our fraction strips to find equivalent fractions!

Author & Illustrator Visit

On Monday, May 2, author Kate Klise and her sister and illustrator Sarah Klise visited Brookfield Elementary School. It was so fun to listen to how they create their books! We even got ideas of new books we could write with 1 character, 1 problem and 1 journey.

Surprise! It's Mrs. Atols and Evan!

We had two very special visitors come by right after lunch today for a quick visit. We got to see Mrs. Atols, and we got to meet Evan. He slept the whole time he was here! He sure is cute!