The Tempest and Place Value Fun

The Carnival of the Animals is upon us!  This is a musical suite by Camille Saint-Saens that all first graders will perform.  Poetry is a huge part of this performance. This week we began to learn the poem The Tempest by William Shakespere. Mr. Stankowski taught us that we need to sound as one voice when reciting the poem. We learned where to pause and which words to emphasize to help the audience understand the difficult vocabulary. We're pretty good with the first half of the poem and are exited to learn part two soon!  This coming week we will learn two dances for the big show!  Mark your calendars for our class performance on March 11th at the McCoy!  

We also became experts at place value this week. Students can identify tens and ones, draw a picture of the number using cubes and rods and write numbers in expanded form. This coming week we will work on learning about greater than and less than signs.