Mrs. Bilangino's Fantastic First Graders!

Hi Families, What a crazy month March has been! Fingers crossed the snow forecasted for this week does not accumulate! We're ready for outdoor recess weather EVERYDAY! Although there have been a lot of disruptions we have actually had a lot of fun and learned a lot. In math we learned about adding two digit numbers, equivalent numbers, and we have been practicing guess and check to solve problems. We began our weather unit in Science and learned about wind. We will be learning about precipitation this week. Before our Weather Unit we wrapped up our Economics Unit in Social Studies. During this unit students learned about needs, wants, goods, services, and consumers and producers. The culminating activity was called "Little Entrepreneurs".  The students created their own "shops" and created a business plan. Students worked in groups to create a business name, products and a price for their product.  The class came up with a ton of great product ideas th...

Hello Everyone! I have been very terrible at posting this year and I really apologize. So much has happened since December's post. I have completed all of our mandated reading testing for the state and the city through MClass. I will be sending home information about this test in the upcoming weeks. This will give you some information about your child as a reader. We have been working on an Economics unit in Integrated Literacy. We have studied needs and wants, how families meet their needs and wants. We have learned about spending money and saving money as well as the jobs different people in our community and family have. Our next and last part of the unit will focus on producers and consumers. We will make some paper products in our classroom and sell them to the consumers in our room. Students will work in teams and make a business plan. I'm really excited to see their imaginations at work! In math we have been learning many new topics: place value, coins, greater tha...