Dear First Grade Families,
We had a fun week of learning last week. I was excited to see how many students choose to read over Thanksgiving break. The kids loved getting a surprise when they returned to school on Monday.
Last week in first grade...
- The Kiwanis visited all the kindergarden and first grades to gift them a book.
- We finished our "Me on the Map & Who is in charge" flip books. They are hanging in the hallway for the week. Students will be bringing them home soon.
- We began learning about the 4 types of sentences -- declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative.
- We reviewed common, proper and possessive nouns and completed an assessment to show our understanding of each type of noun.
- We explored facts from opinions. Students completed a graphic organizer to write their opinion on the toy everybody should get for Christmas.
This week we will...
- begin a project on sound and vibrations.
- write a final draft about the best toy for Christmas using our graphic organizers.
- identify the characters, setting, problem and solution of a story read aloud.
SAVE THE DATE
What: Our Drama Performance
When: December 15 at 1:00
Where: Room 2 (Mrs. Rowlett's Class room)
When the drama performance is over you may take your child home with you.
Math news from Miss Garcia
This week the first graders focused on both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. As a class we named 2-dimensional shapes, drew and discussed open vs. closed shapes and counted sides and vertices of shapes. The students were also able to compose a new shape using a set of 2-dimensional shapes such as triangles, squares, trapezoids and parallelograms.
2-dimensional shapes 3-dimensional shapes
Week 16 Homework
Dec. 5th - Dec. 8th
Monday
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IXL - V.2 Select the 2-Dimensional shape
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Tuesday
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IXL - V.4 Compare sides and vertices
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Wednesday
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IXL - W.10 Shapes of everyday objects part 2
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Thursday
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No Homework - due to Shape Assessment
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Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garica
