Hello First Grade Families,
Happy Valentine's Week!!! I hope you are hearing all about the animal that your child is researching at school. The kids are having so much fun working with a partner to research their animals and are enjoying typing their information using Google slides on the Chromebooks. Each student is responsible for typing information that they have found about their animal onto slides for a PowerPoint. Students take turns typing and while the other person is typing they are reading the information that they wrote and telling them what letters to type next. They are doing a lot of teamwork and surprising me at how capable they all are. Mrs. Loop and I will be letting 1st grade parents know when our classes are ready to present their Slide shows to families.
VALENTINE'S DAY--We will be passing out class Valentine's in the afternoon on February 14. Students will have cute Valentine monster bags that they have made in class to put all of their Valentine's in. Valentine cards are completely optional, if your child would like to pass them out to the class please send in enough for the entire class We will have a short time to play a few games after Community Service class is over at 1:05 and we leave at 2:00.
LAST WEEK WE....wrote "friend notes" by choosing names and writing appreciations about the person that they chose. (The kids love writing happy notes to each other and receiving happy notes from others.)
- worked with partner to research assigned animal and fill out graphic organizers with facts about animal.
- began typing animal information on chromebooks for powerpoint about assigned animal.
- practice spelling words with -ime spelling pattern (lime, crime, overtime)
- learn about conjunctions (and, so, but) and expand sentences by using them.
- continue writing "friend notes" to classmates.
- continue working with a partner to research assigned animal to make a powerpoint on the chromebook.
- begin adding pictures to powerpoint of assigned animal.
- learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Math News from Miss Garcia
The first grade students worked on the following skills last week: using 100 chart to find 10 more, 10 less and 1 more, 1 less than a given number between 1 -100. They also decomposed numbers to compose a “10” or the next “10’ which would be 20! We will continue to work on this objective this week.
Mrs. Bloomfield and I will not give out homework on Tuesday and Thursday due to Valentine’s Day and the 4 day weekend in observance of President’s Day. Enjoy this long weekend with your family!
Decompose & Compose a Ten or the next 10...
Example:
17 + 4 = ___
↙ ↘ (decompose 4 into 3 & 1)
3 1 (add the 17 to 3 to compose a 20)
(17 + 3) = 20 + 1 = 21
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Week 24 Homework
February 13th - 16th
Monday
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Worksheet - Decompose, 1 more/1 less & 10 more/10 less
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Tuesday
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No Homework - Happy Valentine’s Day
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Wednesday
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IXL - I.1 Relate addition and subtraction sentences
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Thursday
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No Homework - Happy President’s Day Weekend
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