Happy February First Grade Families,
Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia wanted to give a A GIGANTIC thank you to all that were able to come to Math Night last Tuesday! It was great to see so many families enjoying playing math games and working on math puzzles! We are hoping to make this an annual event!!
We can't believe that just changed the calendar pieces from January to February!! How can we be done with the first calendar month of 2018???
Last week first graders were busy, busy...
- We reviewed nouns and verbs.
- We learned all about adjectives.
- review open and closed syllables.
- We worked on our penguin research project books. We researched where they live and added bold print words that we will include in our glossaries.
- We are still working on adding proper punctuation to our sentences. This is a struggle for first graders.
This Week We will...
- Add cool facts to our non-fiction penguin books.
- learn all about the life cycle of a penguin.
- put word in abc order to add to our glossaries and indexes.
- Choose the animal to research with a partner.
- Use adjectives to make empty nouns exciting.
- Learn about the vowel consonant e syllable type.
Below are a few pictures of the syllable types.
Valentines day
The first graders will be exchanging Valentines on Feb. 14th. If you child would like to send in Valentines for the other classmates please be sure to bring 1 for each student and have your child only sign their names.
Math News from Miss Garcia
Happy Monday! Last week our 1st grade classes focused on adding two;
1 digit numbers to compose (make) a group of 10 without “renaming.”
This week we are introducing adding a two digit number to a one digit
number without renaming. This is going to be DIFFICULT for most students.
Please refer to the examples below AND have them use their 100 charts in their
binder as a tool to count on. You are NOT helping your child out by just telling
them the answer. We have taught them many strategies in order to figure out
equations.
1 digit numbers to compose (make) a group of 10 without “renaming.”
This week we are introducing adding a two digit number to a one digit
number without renaming. This is going to be DIFFICULT for most students.
Please refer to the examples below AND have them use their 100 charts in their
binder as a tool to count on. You are NOT helping your child out by just telling
them the answer. We have taught them many strategies in order to figure out
equations.
Examples:
23 + 4 = 27 54 + 2 = 56
↙ ↘ (decompose 23 into 20 and 3) ↙ ↘ (decompose 54 into 50 and 4)
20 + (3 + 4) add 3 and 4 50 (4 + 2) add 4 and 2
↘↙ ↘↙
20 + 7 = 27 50 + 6 = 56
Happy Monday!
Miss Garcia & Mrs. Bloomfield
Week 20 Homework
January February 5th - 8th
Monday
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Worksheet - Decomposing
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Tuesday
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Worksheet - Decomposing
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Wednesday
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Worksheet - Add a two digit number to
a one digit number without renaming |
Thursday
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Worksheet - Add a two digit number to a
one digit number without renaming |
Have a great Week!
Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garica
