Week 12 -- 11/27/17

Hello First Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a relaxing fall break filled with family, friends and fun.  It was nice having a week to rest and recharge.  I am looking forward to seeing all those smiling first grade faces Monday Morning.

The sign up for parent conferences went out last week.  If you did not receive the sign up genius please make sure to email me.  If you are unable to make it in during the times listed please let me know and we will work out a time to meet.  I look forward to meeting with you.  

Homework reminder

Homework will be back to normal this week. 1st graders will have their reading and math.  We will also have our weekly spelling test (the first graders do practice in class during daily 5) and sight words.  

Here are pictures of our community helper posters the groups made they all worked so hard and did an amazing job on this project.

This week in first grade we will...

• Review where in the world we live.  
• Identify the the 7 continents, and 5 oceans.
• determine the type of community we live in (rural, urban, suburban).
• name common and proper nouns.
• ask and answer W questions when reading. 

Math news from Miss Garcia

This week in math Mrs. Bloomfield and I will introduce graphing.  We will gather and count amounts of data.  So far, we have only focused on Pictographs.  However, the students will learn several types of graphs: pictographs, bar graphs and tally charts.  The first grade standard states that your child must be able to organize, represent and interpret data with up to 3 categories AND ask/answer questions about the data in each category.  Here are a few examples of the graphs that your child will be able to “read” and gather information from.  We focus on stating the questions when reading graphs as: “How many more, how many less” as well as “altogether.”

The students will also continue to take several mini assessments for the end of the Trimester.

Pictograph Tally Chart     Bar Graph

Homework for Nov. 27th - 30th

Monday	IXL - O.1 Record data with tally charts, picture graphs and tables
Tuesday	IXL - O.2 Interpret data with tally charts, picture graphs and tables.
Wednesday	IXL - Worksheet - Stuffed Animal Pictograph
Thursday	IXL - O.3 Interpret Bar Graphs

Have a great week!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 11 & 12

Happy Week 11 & 12!!!

Time is flying by I can't believe we only have 1 more week until fall break and Thanksgiving.  

Last week the first graders presented their posters to the 2nd and 6th graders. They did an amazing job working on these projects. I will post pictures of the groups and their amazing posters later this week. 

Last week we also had a few visitors to our classroom...

• Molly Dahl  taught us about mindful breathing and how it helps up learn.
• Mrs. Craig taught us all about the job of a Emergency Room nurse.
• Mr. McCormick came with his flight gear. He told us what it is like to be in the military.
• Mr. & Mrs. Heath visited us and told us all about being a doctor.

Thank you to all these wonderful community helpers for taking time out of their busy schedules and visit with us. WE APPRECIATE all our community helpers!!

This week in first grade we will begin an new project. We will learn all about where we live on the map and who is in charge. We will also learn all about nouns and continue to identify the problem and solution of the story!!

Homework

We will not be doing formal reading groups this week so your child will not be bringing home a book to read.  They are more than welcome to borrow books from my library if they would like. Please choose a book to read for their night reading. Since Thursday begins our break we will only have reading homework Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  

Reading over Break

If your child chooses to read over Fall Break please make sure to log their reading.  If they read for 20 minutes 5 of the days of break they will get a reward when they return to school. This is totally optional.

Math News from Miss Garcia

This week in first grade the students used Number Bonds to create fact families.  A picture of our fact families was posted on the Oasis Facebook page, check them out!  They also reviewed methods of subtraction and completed several mini assessments throughout the week.

Mrs. Bloomfield and myself continue to have the students write answer statements when they are problem solving.  Answer statements fit in perfectly with “Format Matters” which we use when answering a question.

This week we will work on the correlation between addition and subtraction, using a number line and a hundred chart to count on or back and focus on subtraction equations.

Homework for November 13th -16th

Monday	IXL - H. 1 Subtraction facts Numbers up to 10
Tuesday	IXL - H.5 Complete the subtraction sentence
Wednesday	IXL - H. 6 Subtraction Word Problems up to 10
Thursday	No Homework - Happy Thanksgiving & Fall Break!

Have a Wonderful Holiday!!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 10 -- 11/6/17

Fall finally feels like it is here. The weather is definitely cooling down especially in the mornings.  Please make sure your child wears layers so they are comfortable with these crazy temperatures.

We had a excitingly busy week last week. We had a visit from the Sheriff's office (Thank you Officer Maynez) telling us all about their job and how they are community helpers. We got to look at their cool tools and their police car.  We also had our Halloween party which was a lot of fun!! Thank you to Mrs. Piexoto, Mrs. Pheasey, Mrs. Pascoe, Mrs. Wadsworth for planning the fun activities for us to do. Also a big thank you to Mrs. Craig for making our spooky treats.  Along with all this excitement we managed to work hard on our community helper projects. We also go in some fun Halloween writing too.

1st Quarter ended on Thursday.  However, Oasis Academy has moved to trimesters except for Specials.  This means that your child will receive a report card 3 times this year instead of 4 and they rotate into another special on Monday: For our class it is Music with Mrs. Barton.  

Below you will find a slide show of our fun filled week.

This week we will... finish up our community helper posters and present them to our class, the 2nd and 6th graders. have visit from a doctor, nurse and a soldier. begin learning about nouns. write appreciations to a community helper. identify what we are thankful for. Math News from Miss Garcia The Book Fair was a great success!  Thank you to ALL of the parent volunteers who made it happen.  We appreciate all of the time and effort that you put into the Oasis Academy Book Fair. This week your 1st grader will continue 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. Monday IXL H.14 Subtraction Sentences True or False Tuesday Fact Family houses worksheet Wednesday IXL J.3 Fact Families Thursday IXL J.4 Addition and subtraction facts to 10