Field Day Slide Show

Here is a slide show from Field day!! The kids had such a blast!!!

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Reminder -- 

Your child received a calendar for the summer.  Log their reading by initialing each day they read for  at least 15 minutes.  If they read 3 times each week they will get a Dilly bar party and entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card. 

Last Week

Happy Last Week of School!!!

The last week of school is here!!! It will be a busy one.  We have a lot jammed packed  into the last week.

• Monday we will participate in Junior Achievement lesson during the morning.
• Tuesday morning is the Awards Assembly.
• Wednesday the entire school will be attending the 8th grade graduation. Report cards will be sent home this day as well. 
• Thursday is Field Day!! 

Important information about field day...

• K-8 students are not required to wear uniforms but must dress with the same coverage as the uniforms (no tank tops or short shorts)
• Shoes will get wet!  Water shoes or sandals are preferred.  Tennis shoes are good too but they will get wet.
• There are several water activities and swimming suits are allowed but must be a one piece. NO BIKINIS (please have their swim suits on under their clothing)
• Friends of Oasis Academy is sponsoring a BBQ for all K-8 students and volunteers so a full free lunch will be provided (hot dogs, fruit, chips, drink, etc.).  If your student has a food allergy you may want to consider sending them with a sack lunch.
• Please label all of your student's belongings!!!  (Towel, clothing, bag or backpack, etc)
• Send your child's belongings in a bag or backpack so they can keep everything together.
• APPLY SUNSCREEN before you drop them off at school.
• In the morning, students will be dropped off in the big commercial parking lot by Dollar Tree and will walk back to the playground to find their class.
•  Dismissal of all student will be at 2:00. After school pick up will follow normal procedure.

This year has gone by so fast.  I am so happy that I got to learn and teach with you and your children this year.  I have loved teaching this group of 1st graders this year.    They have all grown academically as well as physically.  I have no doubt that they will continue to be rock stars in the future years.  

Please read with your child over the summer. The library has a great reading program and Oasis will be offering a reward to all children that read over the summer months. 

Have a wonderful summer with your family
Mrs. Rowlett & Mrs. Garcia

Quarter 4 Week 8

Hello First Grade Families,

Happy Mothers day to all the wonderful Moms out there. I hope everyone was able to enjoy their day. I can't believe that we only have 2 more weeks of school and our first graders will be second graders.

Last week in 1st grade we...

• worked hard on end of the quarter assessments.
• finished our small moment narrative stories.
• Read a Tall Tale about Paul Bunyan.
• finish up with root words, prefixes and suffixes.

This week we will...

• continue reading tall tales.
• share our small moments with our friends.
• continue working on assessment.

Last week the 3rd graders had their own stores that they made products to "sell" to the 1st graders. Each 1st grader was given $20 (play money) and they got to be consumers and shop at each 3rd grade store.  I'm sure you noticed the creative things that were bought when your child took them out of their backpacks.  It was a fun time had by all and they got put into action what we have been learning about producers, consumers, goods, and services.

A Few Date To Remember:

• 8th graders will continue to sell lemonade at lunch recess until May 23.  Feel free to send your child with a quarter or 2 so they can enjoy a glass of lemonade.  
• Field day will be on the last day of school. May 25. Please sign up to help with this fun event.
• Report cards will go home next Wednesday!!

I wanted to thank everyone for making teacher appreciation week such a special week.  The goodies in the teachers lounge, the special notes and gifts were wonderful!! I appreciate all the wonderful families we have at Oasis Academy.

MATH NEWS FROM MISS GARCIA

Happy Monday!

We hope that you had a joyous Mother’s Day weekend.  It’s our last “regular” week of school.  The teachers will be busy assessing students this week.  For first grade homework, please have your child choose one IXL assignment, of their choice, each night to complete.  Mrs. Bloomfield and I will receive daily reports on who has completed their assignments.  

Week 36 Homework

May 15th - 18th

Monday	Choose one 1st Grade IXL assignment of your choice.
Tuesday	Choose one 1st Grade IXL assignment of your choice.
Wednesday	Choose one 1st Grade IXL assignment of your choice.
Thursday	Choose one 1st Grade IXL assignment of your choice.

 

    

Quarter 4 week 7

Happy Monday First Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Please make sure you check our lost and found table. There is a huge pile of items that have been lost.

Last week in first grade...

• We completed our final drafts for our small moments. We will put the final touches on these this week and begin to share them with our friends.
• We identified where we store money and how we earn it.
• We identified root words and added prefixes to root words to change the meaning of the root word.
• Listened to Fables and determined the moral of these great stories.

This week we will...

• Share our stories with our friends and the second graders.
• Begin Tall Tales. We will be comparing Tall Tale characters.
• Begin a fun unit on friendship.
• Put the final touches on our narratives.
• Have your child read nightly we will not have formal reading groups this week. I will be completing 4th quarter assessment. 

Things to Remember

• The middle school will be selling lemonade during lunch recess.  It costs .25 cents a cup. 
• Field day will be on the last day of school May 25. Please look for the sign up sheet to help out with this fun event. 

Math News From Miss Garcia

The countdown is on!  We are officially down to the last 12 days of school.  You should have received an email from O.A. about Field Day.  Field Day will be held at Oasis Academy on the last day of school, May 25th, from 8:00 - 2:00.  

The first graders will review measurement this week.  They will order 2 or more items by length while also using “non-standard” units such as cubes, paperclips or disks to tell the length of an object.  I will also give them a “standard unit”, a ruler, to measure objects in the room to the nearest inch.  The students will also review geometry focusing on using 2-dimensional shapes to compose a new shape while counting sides and vertices.

Week 35 Homework

April April May 15th - 18th

Monday	IXL  V. 2 Select the 2-dimensional shapes
Tuesday	IXL  V. 3 Count sides and vertices
Wednesday	IXL  P.3 Measure using objects
Thursday	IXL  P.4  Measuring using and inch ruler

 

    

Quarter 4 -- Week 6

Hello First Grade Families.

What a Beautiful Weekend!! I hope everyone was able to get out and enjoy some of the sunshine. We only have 4 weeks of school left!! I Can’t believe how fast this year has gone by.  

First graders still have a lot of learning to do in these last few days of school.  This will be our last week of spelling and formal reading groups. If your child doesn’t bring a book home please have them read a book of their choice.  

In first grade last week we…

• Added details to our narrative writings.
• Discussed our wants and needs, how their parents and we can make money and learned all about consumer and producers,
• We also identified that we trade money to get the goods we want and need.

This week in first grade…

• We will begin writing our Small Moment Books (the final drafts).
• Identify banks as a place to keep our money safe.
• Explore consumer and producers and consumers in more depth.

Math News from Miss Garcia

We are down to the last 16 days of school!  We are also busy re-assessing most concepts taught in order to see if your child has mastered them by the end of the year.

Last week we focused on 2 different strategies: Branch Addition and Arrow Method.  These are two strategies that we like to introduce prior to second grade.  I am leaving them on the blog as a resource for both parents and students.  

This week we will work with addition and subtraction equations.  The kids will determine the unknown numbers in addition and subtraction equations, which is review however, Mrs. Bloomfield and I are re-assessing this standard.  

Examples:

8 + ___ = 11

5 = __ - 3

6 + __ = 13

__ - 8 = 4

The first graders also will review telling time to the hour an half hour using digital and analog clocks.

Week 34 Homework

April April May 1st - 4th

Monday	IXL D.3  Complete the addition sentence
Tuesday	IXL H.5  Complete the subtraction sentence
Wednesday	IXL U.3 Match analog and digital clocks
Thursday	IXL U.4  Read clocks and write times

 

         

Branch Method Examples:

Example   31 + 6 = 52 + 12 =

                    ↙ ↘   ↘                                           ↙ ↘   ↙ ↘

                  30 + (1 + 6) =                                 50  2  10  2

30 + 7 = 37       (50+10) + (2+2) =

                                                                              60   +  4  = 64

Arrow Method Example:

53  +  34  =                1.  Start with the bigger addend (53).

   + 30     +4

53 → 83 →87        2.  Draw an arrow.  Break down the other addend (34) into tens(30)

and ones (4).          

                            

                                 3.  Above the arrow write a plus sign and the amount of tens (+30).     

Write the subtotal.after the arrow (83).

                                  4.  Draw another arrow after the subtotal. Above the arrow write a

plus sign and the amount of ones (+4).  Write the total (87).

Have a great Week!!!