Mrs. Rowlett's 1st Grade: Quarter 2 -- Week 8 -- Slideshow and information

Dear First Grade Parents,

Happy Monday! There are only two weeks left until Christmas Break. It will go by quickly and we will continue to read, write and work on math everyday. Please make sure that your child is at school everyday so they do not miss out on any learning and special projects.

Thursday, December 22nd, Oasis Academy will be having a “Celebration Day” for ALL of the hard work and dedication that the 3rd through 8th grade students who had to take the “Smarter Balance” and End of Course exams last spring. Our students did a fantastic job on the assessments and Mrs. Mackedon granted us a special holiday activity day. Students can dress in “Holiday Attire,” they do NOT have to wear their Oasis Uniforms that day. All first and second graders will be participating in Christmas Around the World lessons and activities on December 22. More information will be sent out about that day soon. All first and second grade teachers are planning some fun activities to learn more about new places and their traditions.

Snow Day Slide Show!!!

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Drama Performance

Thursday, December 15 at 1:30 in Mrs. Rowlett's room -- first graders will be preforming their drama play. They have worked so hard all quarter practicing this fun play to preform for you. We hope you will be able to join us for this fun event. Please note the time change.

Last week in first grade we...

began our sound and light science project. Students went on a listening walk around the school, learned about our 5 senses, and made a kazoo to demonstrate sound vibrating.
wrote a final draft using our graphic organizer that we completed about our favorite toy and giving reasons why it is our favorite.
practiced identifying characters, setting, problem, and solution of a story read aloud.
decorated a paper Christmas tree and wrote a declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentence about the tree.
completed a directed drawing of a reindeer that are proudly hanging in the hallway. The kids did such a good job on their drawings!!

This week we will...

review the 4 types of sentences, especially imperative sentences which seem to be the most confusing.
review nonfiction text features and begin assessing who can find and use the table of contents, index, and glossary of a book.
review verbs and nouns and complete a verb assessment.
continue practicing putting words into ABC order.
continue our Science project on Sound and Light and learn about pitch and how light is illuminated.
not have spelling words this week. Instead we will begin completing report card assessments.

Math News

Last week our 1st grade class continued to work with shapes. Your child should be able to distinguish between and open vs. closed shape, count edges (sides) and vertices (corners) of a shape and compare shapes to everyday objects. For example: a tissue box could be a cube or a rectangular prism and it could either have a “face” that is a square or a rectangle. We planned on assessing last Thursday however, Mrs. Bloomfield and I didn’t feel that the kids were ready so they will complete their assessment on Monday.

We played “I’m Thinking of a Shape,” which is an activity you can play at home. You give the “rule” of the shape and the kids draw that given shape.

Examples:

I am thinking of a shape with zero sides and zero vertices…(circle/oval).