October 26-29

Thank you to everyone who came for conferences.  It was great talking with everyone and sharing the many successes of your wonderful children.  

Last week in first grade:

• We continued working on fact and opinion. We read fiction and non-fiction books about bats. We wrote a few facts and completed a bat craft.  We also wrote an opinion piece on what Mrs. Rowlett should be for Halloween. We have some very creative students in our class. Their ideas were great! 
• Using the bat books we created story maps with all the details of each book.  Ask your child to tell you the plot (main events) of the stories they are reading to you.
• We made Frankenpudding and used our senses to describe the pudding. We will write our opinions of the Frankenpudding.

This week we will be looking at the different types of sentences (interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, and declarative).  We will continue working on story maps with books.  We will also be looking at the text features of non-fiction text.  

IXL -- Homework for Week 11:

Monday	IXL - M.2 - Interpret data in tally charts
Tuesday	IXL - M.1 Record Data in Tally charts
Wednesday	IXL- M.3 - Interpret bar Graphs
Thursday	NO Homework!  Due to Nevada Day and Halloween!

Halloween Celebration

We will have our Halloween celebration on Thursday from 12:15 to 1:45.  Your child may dress up in their costume.  Please remember no masks or scary/boody costumes.  Mrs. Simper is in charge of our party, please contact her if you would like to help out. We will be have a treat in the lunchroom.   If you are planning on sending something in, please remember we are a food free classroom.  

Reminders

• It is a new quarter if your child would like to wear crazy socks or tights please send in $1.
• Wednesday is still Nacho Day - $3
• Thursday is pizza day -- pizza coupons can be purchased at the office.

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Week 10 -- October 19

Wow! Look at this Fall weather!  I just love it!

We have a busy week this week.  Today we will be going to the book fair to preview all the great books.  Your child will get to fill out a wish list.  This is just a wish list. If you would like to purchase some of the great books you can send in money with your child or come and visit the book fair.  It will be opened everyday before and after school and during lunch.  We will have our Family Night on Thursday.

Thursday will be Monster Hair Day in honor of the book fair.

Friday is Parent Teacher conferences. Thank you for signing up on Sign up Genius.  I look forward to meeting with you.  If for some reason you can not make it to our conference please let me know and we can reschedule

We start a new special class this week. We will have Art now.  I can't wait to see all the amazing art projects our students create.  Mrs. Johnson does amazing projects with all the students.  A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Brubeck for a wonderful quarter of Community Service.  The student loved everything they learned.

Coming soon pictures from the pumpkin patch!

A Note from Miss Garcia:

Hello Bighorn Families, 

It's been another fast paced week of learning in first grade!!  All students have been busy completing first quarter assessments as well as determining if an equation is True or False, comparing numbers and determining the unknown number in an equation.  _ + 7 = 12    OR   11 - _ = 6

This weeks homework will be pages out of the student workbooks that include the lesson that we taught that day.  Students should know how to complete these homework pages.  If they were being attentive listeners and asking for clarification during the lessons that Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia have taught.

Remember to stop by the Oasis Academy Book Fair!

Have a great week, 

Homework for the week Oct. 19-22

Mon. - Workbook page 73-74

Tues. - Workbook page 72 only

Wed. - Test Review Page 38 & 40

Thurs. - No Thursday Homework due to test.

1st Grade Happenings

Hi First Grade Families,

Pumpkin Patch
I wanted to remind everyone that our gathering at the pumpkin patch will be tomorrow, Friday October 16.  We will be meeting at Lattin Farms around 12:30.  The cost is 5 dollars per person.  Stop by anywhere between 12:30 and 2:00 to have a hayride, and pick a pumpkin.

Book Fair
The book fair will be set up at Oasis next week.  Our class will visit the book fair on Monday. A flier with some of the books offered was sent home today.  If you would like to send in money on Monday that will be fine. The book fair will also be opened before and after school and during lunch for you and your child to enjoy!  Thursday will be Family night at the book fair. There will be many games and activities along with shopping for books for you and your family to enjoy.
Thursday will be monster hair day at school.  Your child may style their hair crazy that day. This will be a lead in to Monster night at the book fair.

Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on Friday October 23.  Thank you to everyone for signing up to meet.  I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's progress.

Great News from Miss Garcia

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Rowlett

Week Nine -- October 12

Math News from Miss Garcia,

Hello Parents,

We have had a busy week in first grade!  Our classes are working on understanding the concept of subtraction.  The first graders have been telling subtraction stories by drawing a picture, writing an equation and making a number bond in order to find the missing number.  We even began to relate addition to subtraction by introducing and writing fact families.  Listed below is an example of a fact family:

 9, 5, 4

5+4=9

4+5=9

9-4=5

9-5=4

Homework for this week:

Monday - IXL D.15 Complete the Subtraction Sentence

Tuesday - IXL D.11 Subtraction facts up to 10

Wednesday - IXL D.17 Subtraction facts: True or False

Thursday - IXL  D.16 Related Subtraction Facts

Week 9 -

Thank you to everyone for signing up for Parent-Teacher conferences.

This is our final week before report cards. The end of the first grading period will be on Friday. I will be completing my final assessments this week so your child may not have a book from our guided reading groups. If your child does not have a book please make sure they read for 20 minutes. They can choose books from home, from our class library and also read the poems in their binders.

Last week we worked on Blends (dr, br, cr, bl cl ect.) The dr blend is really difficult for most first graders to hear. They hear it as jr. We also compared apples and pumpkins using a double bubble map and learned the difference between facts and opinions. The first grades wrote their opinion of Halloween in their journals.

We will begin our social studies project "Me On The Map" . One of the first grade standards is that students will know their address and phone number. Please begin to practice this with your child if they do not already know this.

Reminder:

First Grade and Kindergarten families will meeting at Lattin Farms, on Friday October 16, at 12:30 for a fun day of pumpkin picking, hay rides and the cow train. The cost will be $5 per person. This is a Family event so please plan on staying with your child. You can stop by any time between 12:30 and 2:30.

Have a great Week!

Mrs. Rowlett

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Week of Oct 5.

Happy October!!!

First grade was a lot of fun last week.  We wrote about our favorite apple food item. We learned about Johnny Appleseed and followed step by step directions to draw a picture of him. They turned out great and both our portraits and our writings are in the hall.  We learned some new TRIBES energizers (gesture wave, and clap, clap, 85). During Daily 5 we focused on the chunking strategy and looking for known parts of unknown words. We also sorted digraph words (words with th, sh, ph, wh, ch etc.)

This week we will be looking at learning about pumpkins.  We are going to use a double-bubble map to compare apples and pumpkins. We are going to look at the difference between fact and opinion. In word study we are going to be learning different blends.  Our spelling patter will be ed and ug words. 

PICTURE DAY REMINDER
Picture day for our class is on TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 at 8:30.  The picture packet was emailed to everyone.   

Cool weather is here!  Please make sure to mark your child's jackets and sweaters with their name.  

Nacho Wednesday
Nacho's will be sold every Wednesday for $3.  If your child would like to eat nacho's please send in a morning snack and some other items for them to each at lunch.  

Math news from Miss Garcia

October 5, 2015

Dear First Grade Families,

It was a very busy week in first grade math.  Here are some of the concepts that we have worked on this past week!

We reviewed the counting on strategy to help us add.  This strategy is best used for counting on 1, 2, or 3.  Students really enjoy using the big number line in the hallway.

We also used ten frames to help us find missing addends with 10.  Since students know that a ten frame represents 10.  It was easy for students to see the missing addends using a ten frame.  If 10 is the whole, students would fill in the known part (in the example below 3) with counters.   The empty spots on the ten frame is the missing part or addend.

3 + ⃞ = 10              3 + 7 = 10

★	★	★

Our final concept for the week was determining whether an equation is True or False.  Students did a fantastic job with this concept.  Not only did they need to state True or False, students also needed to justify their answer.  

Here’s the homework for the coming week.

Monday	IXL D.1 Subtraction With Pictures Numbers Up to 10
Tuesday	IXL D.2 Subtraction Sentences With Numbers Up to 10
Wednesday	IXL D.16 Related Subtraction Facts
Thursday	IXL F.3 Fact Families

Have a great week!!

Sincerely,

Miss Garcia