I am teaching first grade this year with Sandra Tarantino as my co-teacher and it is very exciting. We just recently had open house and I was thrilled to see new faces and meet parents that attended.
We are currently working on beginning addition and subtraction in math. Students are using several different strategies such as counting on, number lines, drawing pictures, counters and reverse facts. Don't forget to practice skip counting by 5's, 10's and 2's.
My class just began reading using our sight words and guided reading books to increase our readability. We are practicing sight words daily and using picture clues to figure out unknown words.
Writing has begun with simple ideas about a picture prompt. We are using our resources to find and spell words. We have a word wall, word box, picture dictionary and of course teacher support.
We're off to a wonderful start!