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