Quarter 2 Week 2

Happy Halloween from Oasis Academy!

It is always a fun time at Oasis Academy when Halloween comes around because the kids get to wear costumes to school instead of their uniforms. Monday will be a fun day of learning as well as doing fun activities at our party. Your child will be meeting in class for reading and math in the morning.  Due to trick or treating happening in the evening on Monday we will not have any assigned reading homework.  Reading homework will be as usual for the rest of the week. Please remember to wear your costume and if if you choose NOT to then you must wear your uniform to school.

REMINDER: Parent Teacher Conferences begin this Friday.  I will be sending home a reminder email showing all of the conference times that are planned.  I look forward to meeting with all of you beginning on Friday.

The Scholastic Fair also begins Monday.  The book fair is set up the dungeon and is very successful due the the volunteer work of our many dedicated parents!  Stop by and check out the book fair.  Family Night is Wednesday evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Our Class will visit on Tuesday to make our wish lists.
Last week first graders

• sorted words by how many syllables they have. We also learned that syllables are... a word or part of a word with one vowel pattern.
• sorted words by long vowel and short vowel sound
• wrote about a haunted house by using their senses to describe one.  The first graders completed a TREE map and wrote sentences from their tree maps. These are hanging in the hallway be sure to check them out. 
• had their first Drama lesson with Mrs. Heather. We will have Drama every Tuesday and Thursday until Christmas Break.

Math News from Miss Garica

On Tuesday, the first graders will have an assessment on subtraction strategies to 10.  The rest of the week will be spent creating word problems from a given number bond using both addition and subtraction strategies.

Homework for October 31st - November 3rd

Monday	Trick or Treat….NO Homework!
Tuesday	IXL - H. 1 Subtraction facts Numbers up to 10
Wednesday	IXL - H. 6 Subtraction Word Problems up to 10
Thursday	IXL - D. 6 Addition Word Problems up to 10

Have a great week!

Mrs. Rowlett and Miss Garcia

Quarter 2 - Week 1 -- October 24,2016

Hello First Grade Families,

I hope you and your family enjoyed Fall Break.  It was nice to have some down time and prepare for our upcoming parent/teacher conferences.

Here are some reminders:
Pizza Passes and Crazy Socks--need to be bought and paid for on Monday, October 24th for the new quarter.

Halloween--Halloween will be celebrated on Monday, October 31st.  Students will be allowed to wear their Halloween Costume all day at school and we will enjoy a Halloween party after lunch from 12:15-1:45. More information will be sent home soon.

Book Fair--Oasis Academy will be having a Book Fair the week of October 31st.  Mrs. Rowlett's class will be visiting the Book Fair on November 1st from 10:30-10:45.  Mrs. Loop's class will be visiting the Book Fair on November 1st from 11:00-11:15.  this will be an opportunity for students to view the Book Fair and make a "wish list" of books they want to buy and make a purchase if they have money.

Parent Conferences--Conferences will begin on Friday, November 4th and continue through the next week.  An email was sent out before Fall Break for you to choose a time to sign up for so we can meet.  If you have not yet signed up please do so soon.  If you have not received an email to sign up for conferences please contact me at jrowlett@oasisacademyfallon.us

This week students will

• practice spelling words with the -ash word family.
• sort words by short and long vowels
• write about what they see, hear, smell and feel in a haunted house.
• begin DRAMA as our new special class.
• focus on W questions when reading (who, what, when, where, why).

Math News from Miss Garcia

Welcome Back from a much needed Fall Break. Everyone was ready for a brain break!  We hope you enjoyed your time off, the much needed rain and the chilly Fall weather.

We will be back into the swing of things starting off Monday, October 24th with the beginning of 2nd Quarter.  Isn’t that hard to believe?!  There are several events coming up such as:

• O.A.’s Book Fair- Oct. 31st - Nov.4th
• Parent-Teacher Conferences - November 4th
• Remember to purchase your Pizza Passes and send in $1 for Crazy Socks!  

This week your 1st grader will relate addition to subtraction within 10.  We will continue to work with numbers by: counting on, making “ten,” composing and decomposing, and creating fact families.  Mrs. Bloomfield and I would also like to gets our kids started on their addition facts in order to build their “fluency” of working with numbers within ten.  Starting with addition and later in the year, working with subtraction.  year, moving into subtraction.

Monday	IXL - H.14 - Subtraction: true or false?
Tuesday	IXL - J.3 - Fact Families
Wednesday	IXL - J.4 - Add and subtract up to 10
Thursday	IXL - D.14 - Related addition facts.

Week 9 Math News from Miss Garica

Well, we are getting better at saying “Commutative Property!”  Last week I had listed the following example.  

Here’s an example of Commutative Property:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

Now we are taking it one step further by finding the missing addend in an equation.  For example:  __+ 3 = 9 or 6 + __ = 9

Again, this will also lead the 1st graders into working with Fact Families!

Here’s an example of a Fact Family (in which the students will eventually fill in the missing addend,subtrahend, difference or sum:

__ + 2 = 9

2 + __ = 9

9 - __ = 7

9 - 7 = __

Here are a few more examples, this is one way that we set them up in class, in a “Fact Family House.”

Fun Family Activities

Continue to skip count by 10’s, 5’s and even 2’s driving in the car or playing outside.  We learned the “Zero Rule”...Any number added to zero is the same number!  We are also keeping track of Data during or weekly graphs.  Make a family graph at home!

Monday	Commutative Property Worksheet
Tuesday	IXL B.3 Addition sentences using number lines - match the equation
Wednesday	Fact Family Worksheet
Thursday	IXL H.13 Related Subtraction Facts

Week 9 -- October 10

Dear First Grade Families,

REMINDER:  Next week 10/17-10/21 is Fall Break and there will not be any school.

This is the final week of the first quarter, it always amazes me how fast time flies.  This week I will be completing report card assessments so students my not be taking home assigned books.  They will be allowed to take home books from our class library this week to look at and read or may read a book from home if they don't meet with me for reading groups.  Many of them will probably choose books that may not be at their reading level so please plan on sitting with your child each evening and reading with them.  Encourage them to read words that they know how to read.

Last week...

•  We began the week with making homemade applesauce in a crockpot. 
•  The kids watched us peel the apples, chop them up, add sugar, cinnamon, and water and cook it.  It made our school smell so yummy! 
•  On Tuesday we all tasted warm applesauce and the kids began writing the steps of how to make applesauce on their own onto a graphic organizer.  

This week we will write topic sentences and concluding sentences and begin writing a final draft of how to make applesauce that will be made up of 6 sentences. We will also be using our 5 senses to describe fall.  

Our spelling pattern this week will be ed (sled, shred ect...) and ub words (club, hub, sub).

We had some firefighters come and visit us for our Community Helper project.  The Chief, Ralph Hamman, and Steve Hiskett (Stevie's dad) were able to come and talk to us what firefighters do to help protect us and our property.  They brought in a uniform that they wear to protect themselves in a fire and some of the kids got to try it on.  They loved their book of appreciations that they received from our first graders.

This week we will be visiting with some police officers and ER nurses and doctors to present our final community helper appreciations.

Week 8 -- With Slideshow

Happy Fall --
We had a wonderful week last week.  We finished up learning about community helpers by compiling our appreciation letters into a variety of books.  We presented our Sailors appreciation book to Mr. Campbell (Adrian's dad) who came in on Wednesday and shared what he did on the base with us.  We also had the ambulance crew come over and show us what they do when they come to help someone who is hurt. The kids got to tour the ambulance also. Jamie & Cristian did a wonderful job show the kids the ins and outs of the ambulance. A big Thank You to these wonderful community helpers.  

The kids also brought in their family community helper dolls that show what their parents do to help our community with their work.  Everybody got so creative!! Throughout the week we watched a short video about how to make apple pie and then as a class we wrote the steps you take to make apple pie.  On Thursday we got to eat some apple pie in our pajamas as we got to wear pajamas to school to raise money for childhood cancer.  Watch the slideshows below to see what went on in first grade this week.

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Slide Show

Math News from Miss Garcia

This week the 1st grade students had fun using the number lines that Mrs. Bloomfield and I created in the hallway.  At first the students worked with number lines in class by counting on and then writing and equation (6+2=8).  The next day we carried this concept one step further by going out into the hallway to use the “Big” number line.  As we used the number line to count on and add one number to another, we also used the Commutative Property to rewrite our equations!  Let me tell you, that is a mouthful for the kids to say and they usually end up saying “community property.”  Hahaha!  We are working on it!

The students are better at writing the Commutative Property than saying it!

Here’s an example of Commutative Property:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

By introducing the students to the Commutative Property this concept will soon lead into Fact Families which we will be learning about soon.

Here’s an example of a Fact Family:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

9 - 2 = 7

9 - 7 = 2

Fun Family Activities

Skip count by 10’s, 5’s and even 2’s driving in the car or playing outside.  Also work on counting on from any number up to 100.  Another fun activity is using a deck of cards or UNO cards and flipping two cards and comparing them using greater than, less than, equal too or taking two playing cards and writing them into an equation and adding them together.

Monday	Worksheet - T or F, Number Line
Tuesday	IXL F.1 Subtract with Pictures Up to 10
Wednesday	IXL F.2 Subtraction Sentences Up to 10
Thursday	IXL F.4 Subtract 0 and All