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