Sunday, November 29, 2015

Quarter 2 -- Week 7

Hello First Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Last week we reviewed standards covered earlier in the year and completed assessments.  This week we will be back to our regular schedule with reading and math homework. Make sure your child is reading to you each night.

This week in first grade:
  • we will review nouns (singular, plural, possessive and Proper) and verbs.
  • we will look a syllables in words and review the fact that every syllable has a vowel.
  • we will look at why we have day and night.  We will look at our relation to the sun at different times of day and how the days vary by season.
  • our spelling will be ump words.  1st graders should know that when they hear ump in a word that is how it is spelled.
Reminder --
A scholastic book order went home with your child on Tuesday.  If you would like to order books the due date is December 3 for orders turned into the classroom and December 10 for those ordered online.

Math News from Mrs Garcia:

Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!  We missed your smiling faces...We will continue to work on 2D and 3D shapes in math.  

Your first grader will be Identifying open and closed shapes, corners (vertex) and sides (edges) of a shape.  They will also tell all flat surfaces that make up any 3-Dimensional shape.  The students will also classify objects by their attribute: color, shape, size, number of corners/sides and its orientation.  We will have a very busy week of learning ahead of us!



Open shape      vs. Closed Shape

Monday
IXL K.9 Open and closed shapes.
Tuesday
IXL K.5 Count sides (edges) and vertices (corners)
Wednesday
IXL K.3 Geometry of everyday objects.
Thursday
IXL K.4 Planar and solid figures.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Math News

Diamond vs. Rhombus

We are in the process of learning about shapes both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes…
2-D shapes consist of: circle, oval, square, hexagon, octagon, rectangle etc.
3-D shapes consist of: pyramid, cone, cylinder, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, sphere etc.

During the years of your child’s Early Childhood Development they call a rhombus a “diamond.”  However, as we get into the Nevada State Content Standards, a diamond is not a shape, it is a rhombus which puts it into the category with parallelograms.  A rhombus is a flat shape with 4 equal straight sides.  At Oasis Academy we will refer to a “diamond” as a rhombus.  


This is a diamond… These are all considered rhombus shapes...


Sunday, November 22, 2015

Quarter 2 Week 6



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We have been busy, busy, busy! 
This week in first grade:
  • we completed an author study on Steve Metzger books including the Silly Turkey party, The Great Turkey Rescue and The Great Turkey Race.
  • we compared 2 of the books using a vienn diagram
  • we completed a story map and made turkeys to put our maps on.
  • we learned all about possessive nouns and verbs.  We wrote turkey verb sentences.


This week is a short week. Your first grader will have normal homework on Monday, but will not have any guided reading homework over the break.
This week we will be finishing up a few assessments from the last few weeks, writing about what we are thankful for and Thanksgiving.  

Have a wonderful and safe Holiday!!!
Happy Thanksgiving
Mrs.Rowlett

News from Miss Garcia

 Dear 1st Grade Families,

As you are well aware, this week is a short one due to the Thanksgiving holiday!  Although we will only be in school for 2 days this week, the fabulous first graders will be working hard in math.  

This week will be starting our unit on geometry.  Monday will focus on 2-dimensional shapes.  Students will be learning about circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons.  As we discuss the various 2-dimensional shapes students will be using the terms side, corner, and vertex.

On Tuesday students will be exploring 3-dimensional shapes.  The 3-dimensional shapes will include sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, rectangular prism/solid, triangular prism/solid, and pyramid.  Students will be using the terms edge, corner, vertex, and face to describe the 3-dimensional shapes.

Because of the short week students will only have homework on Monday.

Monday
IXL K.1 Identify 2-Dimensional Shapes
Tuesday
No Homework (Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday!!)

Here’s wishing you all a safe and restful Thanksgiving filled with family fun!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Bloomfield
and
Miss Garcia

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Quarter 2 - week 5

Winter Weather is in the Air! Oasis students had a great time playing in the snow this week.  We had lots of snowmen on our playground.




Last week in first grade:
  • We started learning about nouns by creating Noun Town (where people, places and things live).  We created an anchor chart on nouns.
  • We continued working on where in the world we live.  First graders are still a little confused about town, state and country.  Have them tell you where in the world we live.
  • We learned all about the different types of communities (rural, suburban, and urban) 
This Week we will:
  • Look at common, proper and possessive nouns and add to our Noun Town.
  • Learn all about Verbs.
  • Finish up our unit on where in the world we live.
  • Write about what we are thankful for
  • Our spelling pattern this week will be "unk" words.
Upcoming events:
  • Thanksgiving holiday -- November 25-26  -- No School.  Have a great break with friends and families.
News from Mrs. Garcia
Happy Monday,

We are continuing on with counting money this week.  Your student should be able to use two strategies counting money: skip counting and counting on...these are the two strategies that we are working on in class.

This week we will also be introducing bills this week: $1.00, $5.00 and $10.00 dollar bills.  Your child can also benefit from practicing counting small amounts of spare change at home.  It gives your 1st grade real world practice with money.

Here is your homework for the week:

Monday
IXL - O.3 Count pennies, nickels and dimes
Tuesday
IXL - O.4 count pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
Wednesday
Homework Page
Thursday
IXL - O.5 Equivalent coins




Sunday, November 8, 2015

Quarter 2 -- week 4

This week in first grade we:

  • Started our new unit "Me on the Map". We looked at were we live on the map starting with our school and our home addresses and will be working our way up to our state, country, continent and our planet.  We read the book Me On The Map and used this as a reference to help us create our own books. Part of this unit includes Oceans and Continents.  The first graders drew a picture of the earth and labeled the oceans and continents.  They did a great job!
  • Finished up our study of the different types of sentences including; imperative (a command), interrogative (a question), declarative (make a statement), and Exclamatory (show strong emotion).  We have been working using the correct punctuation for each type and being able to recognize each type of sentence. 
  • Looked at text features of non-fiction books.  If your child reads a non fiction book at home have them tell you the different features of the book (table of contents, bold print, pictures, captions, index and glossary)
This week we will:
  • Continue with "Me on the Map" looking more closely at our state, country and our continent.  
  • Review sentence types and have an assessment on this concept
  • Review non-fiction text features and have an assessment on this concept.
  • Begin looking at nouns (people, places and things)
Reminders:
  • Wednesday is Veterans Day! We will not have school this day! 
  • Please remember to read 20 minutes per night
News From Miss Garcia
Happy Monday 1st Grade Families,

Our class is finished up with graphing.  We assessed the students on Wednesday and they did a fantastic job applying their graphing skill to their assessment as well as gathering data and creating bar graphs, picture graphs and tally charts.  

This week we are going to be working on counting money, even though this is not a first grade standard, Mrs. Bloomfield and I do feel that it is important to make the connection between money and counting on.  We will discuss the value of each coin and also talk about how much these coins are equal to.  We will use them as part of the “counting on” strategy for example: 1 nickel added to 3 pennies = 8¢ This can also be written as an equation 5¢ + 3¢ = 8¢

There are also several IXL homework assignments that correspond with money that will be given for homework this week.

Here is your homework for the week of Nov. 9-12th…

Monday
Q.1 Name and values of coins
Tuesday
Q.2 Name and value of all coins
Wednesday
Veteran’s Day - NO homework
Thursday
Homework Page


Sunday, November 1, 2015

Quarter 2-- Week 3 with Slideshow

October 26 - October 29

We had such a fun week in first grade.  

This week we learned about 2 different types of sentences.  Exclamatory sentences show emotion and end with an exclamation mark.  Declarative sentences make a statement and end with a period.  We also looked at non-fiction text features including pictures, captions and bold print.  We wrote our opinions of Frankenpudding or of Frankenstein and wrote how to make it.  Our class is doing an excellent job of writing their opinions.

This week we will be finishing up non-fiction text features.We will also learn about the other 2 types of sentences; Imperative (a command) and Interrogative (asks question).  We will start our new unit -- Me on the Map. Please help your child learn their address and phone number.

Please remember to write your child's name on all their loose clothing items. We have an overflowing lost and found.  If you are missing something please check the lost and found or send me an e-mail so I can be on the look out.

News from Miss Garcia
Happy November!

Your first grader has been studying and creating different types of graphs.  Last week, we looked at and gathered different types of data to create: bar graphs, picture graphs and tally charts.  This time of year is a fun time to create graphs due to all of the fun holidays!

Our class will continue to work on graphs this week.  However they will be ready for an assessment on graphing by this Wednesday.  They will only have one day of IXL (Monday) and the reset will be homework pages on graphing.

Here is the homework for this week.  November 2nd - 5th

Monday
IXL - M.4 Reading a bar graph
Tuesday
Pg. 207 & 208 Review
Wednesday
Pg. 199 & 200
Thursday
Homework Page


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