Laura Bernstein

First Grade Teacher

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

In science today we talked about how seasons change, length of daylight in the different seasons, what we wear and do in each season #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

The first grade detectives are trying to figure out who keeps leaving missions for us in our classroom.... here is the list of suspects 🕵🏽‍♂️ today we even had a case to solve in Fundations. We had to be digraph detectives! #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Reading detectives need partners to help solve hard cases! #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Making 10! Buddy numbers of 10 help us become great mathematicians #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Word detectives do a s-l-o-w check!! First graders are excellent detectives, in and outside of readers workshop! Keep it up 🕵🏽‍♂️ #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

The class earned all of their cotton balls by showing teamwork & core ethical values! As their reward we had a picnic style lunch together in the classroom! #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Using different strategies to solve addition word problems in math groups #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Subtraction bowling. Using bowling pins to help us subtract from 10 #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Reading Detectives look closely at worlds from start to end #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Today we kicked off our word detective unit in reader’s workshop! We found these notes let for us by the Super Secret Detective Agency...#brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Addition bingo! #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Learning about tally marks and using math talk to discuss our class graph #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Today was full of pumpkins. We made our own pumpkins & descriptive writing to go with it then read about composting pumpkins in Scholastic News #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Using a number path to solve addition problems. Fact card jump is a station in math workshop. Students can choose if a number line or number path works best for them #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

In writers workshop we talked about similarities between reading and writing. Some many strategies help us during many parts of our day #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Today we celebrated the type of readers we are as we finish up our first reading unit of first grade! Students illustrated and/or wrote about their biggest accomplishment as a reader so far this year #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Weather Wednesday’s! Every Wednesday we look at sunrise and sunset times to see how much daylight we have and how it changes with the seasons #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Thank you @jluss for teaching us how to use the Bee Bot coding robot to solve addition and subtraction problems #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Big moments vs. small moments! Using a watermelon as a visual helps us as writers narrow down our ideas #brewster13 #rsd13ct

[Laura Bernstein @lbernstein13]

Today we explored light in science. We used prisms and mirrors to see how light bends and reflects #brewster13 #rsd13ct