week 27 3/36 - 3/29

Happy Monday,

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. It was nice seeing all the happy faces at the baseball opening day. I can't believe we only have 4 more days of school until spring break. The students and teachers are looking forward to our week off.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

A big thank you to all the Parents, Family and Friends that were able to come and watch the 1st graders present their slideshows.  They really worked hard on these and were so excited to get to present them to you.

REMINDER

• Spring Break - Next week is spring break. April 2nd through April 6. We will return to school on April 9.  
• Scholastic Book Order -- If you wanted to order books please do so by Wednesday, March 27. 
• Box Tops -- Save those box tops.  Oasis is currently doing a box top drive. 

Last week in first grade we...

• Wrote an Ing and I like poem.
• explored the 2 ways a shadow can move.
• Practiced and Practiced our slide shows.
• Read stories and determined whose point of view it was written from

This Week we will...

• Write an I wish, Important and Haiku poem.
• Share these poems with the class. 
• Read the story The Day the Crayons Quit, and determine whose point of view the different letters are written from and also the feeling involved in those characters. 
• Explore more about how the sun creates shadows and why we only see the stars at night. 

I am going to post the slideshows to the blog so your be looking for these.  

Math News From Miss Garcia

It’s Spring Break week!  The students and teachers are excited and ready for a week of relaxation.  I hope that your family is doing something fun and exciting. Be safe and enjoy!

The 1st grade students will continue to work on adding up to 100 using both Branch Method and Partial Sums.  Prior to Spring Break we will count amounts of money and work on Problem Solving on numbers higher than 20.

Again, here is an example of the Partial Sums.  Please reference these examples on the blog if you are unsure of how to help your child with these strategies.  

Partial Sums                  2  4 →      20 + 4                            + 3 3  →   + 30   + 3         5 0      50 + 7                                                       + 7          57

 

Week 27 Homework

March 26th - 29th

Monday	Worksheet - Partial Sums
Tuesday	IXL - Q.1 Names and Values of common coins
Wednesday	XL -  Q3 Count pennies, nickels and dimes
Thursday	No Homework - Happy Spring Break!

 

Have a wonderful Easter and spring break!! See you April 9th.

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 26 3/19 - 3/22

Good Morning 1st Grade Families,

I hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend.  There is a lot going on with baseball, softball, swim team, swing dance and lacrosse!  Please make sure to be responsible with your academics completing 20 minutes of reading and 15 minutes of math each night, Monday through Thursday.  This week we will celebrate the season of Spring and the 100th Day of School!

Reminders:
Presentations:  1st graders will be presenting their slideshows on WEDNESDAY March 21, from 1:30-2:00.

Book orders: If you would like to place a scholastic book order please do so by March 27. The books will be in the week after spring break.  Here is a link: 
https://clubs.scholastic.com/home our class code is HLFMD.

Conferences:  Please sign up for parent teacher conferences.  There are 2 dates available March 23 and April 13.  There are still a lot of times to choose from we are striving to have 100% participation. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's growth and progress 

Last week we...

• Practiced our slide shows by presenting to our class and to Miss Garcia's second graders. 
• Began our poetry unit. We wrote Acrostic and Color Poems. 
• completed assessment for the end of the trimester. 
• Read books that are written in poetic format.

This week we will...

• Continue writing poems including Ing poems, I like poems, and I wish poems. 
• begin our unit on Earth, Sun and Moon and how they move in the sky,
• Learn all about root words and how the meaning of a root word can change by adding a prefix or suffix. 
• Identify whose point of view a story is written from. 

Math News from Miss Garcia

This week the first graders  will be working on adding numbers up

to 100.  You will see your child using two strategies: Branch Addition as well as a new strategy called Partial Sums; here is an example of each…

Week 26 Homework

March 19th - 22nd

Adding 2-digits to a multiple of 10 27  + 20 = ___      ↙ ↘   ↙ ↘   20 +  7 + 20 + 0 = ___  (20 + 20) + (7 + 0) = ___        40 +  7 = 47

Partial Sums                  2  4 →      20 + 4                            + 3 3  →   + 30   + 3         5 0      50 + 7                                                       + 7          57

Week 26 Homework

March 19th - 22nd

Monday	IXL - A.18 Which even or odd number comes before or after?
Tuesday	Worksheet - Branching Adding a multiple 10.
Wednesday	Worksheet - Partial Sums
Thursday	Worksheet - Partial Sums

Have a great week!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Animal Slideshow Presentations

Happy Tuesday!!

First graders will be presenting their slideshows to family and friends!!!

When:  Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Where: Oasis Cafeteria
Time: 1:30 - 2:00

We hope you can make it.  Extra parking is available at the college. Please enter through the front entrance and sign in at the counter. 

Also, if you haven't already done so please sign up for a conference.  A sign up genius was sent out Sunday night.  Let me know if you didn't get the email.  

Thank You!!

Week 25 -- March 12 - 15 -- 3rd Trimester

Dear Bighorns,

Thursday marked the end of our 2nd trimester.  I am amazed that we are already 2/3's of the way finished with the school year.  Parent conferences are officially scheduled for April 13.  However, the 1st and 2nd grade teachers will be offering Conferences on March 23rd as well as April 13.  You will be receiving a Sign up Genius with the times that are available.  Please sign up for the day that works best for you.  If you are unable to meet at the times available please let me know and we can schedule a different time.  Also if you don't receive the email please let me know.  

Last week in 1st Graders...

• finished up our research projects.
• learned about prepositions and prepositional phrases.
• used conjunctions to combine 2 simple sentences.
• began our poetry unit. 

This week we will...

• Practice our slideshows so we can present them to you!  Our tentative date for our presentations is Wed. March 21st.  please watch for a email coming in the next 2 days.
• Take a few end of the trimester assessments.
• Write some fun poems.

Special Event

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the Oasis Family Engagement Committee is sponsoring a

Dress Up Day on Thursday, March 15th.  For $1 students may wear “street clothes”, the

committee has sent out a flyer with the specific guidelines. Looking forward to seeing lots

of green in 2nd grade this Thursday!

 

HOMEWORK

Spring is almost here!  The clocks have been set forward!  Lacrosse, baseball, and softball

are in full swing!  It is getting into the busy time of year! Remember to make time for reading

and math homework.  It can be tricky with so much going on but it is important to make time

even when schedules are full!

Due to assessments we may not meet for formal reading groups.  Please make sure your child reads 20 minutes nightly.  

Math news from Miss Garcia

Happy Monday!

Last week our class worked on odd and even numbers as well as telling 1 more/1 less and 10 more/10 less than a given number.

This week we will focus on determining a number as even or odd.  The students have been making “bridges” with their hands and drawing a picture of what number is in the 1’s place to determine if the number is even or odd.

Week 25 Homework

March 12th - 25th

Monday	IXL - A.13 Counting on a hundred chart
Tuesday	IXL - A.14 100 Chart
Wednesday	IXL - A.15 Even or Odd
Thursday	IXL - A.16 Identify numbers as even or odd.

 

          

Have a great week!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Correct Math Homework for week 24

Sorry I posted the wrong Math Homework! Here is the correct Math Post!!  Have a great week!

Last week, the students practiced telling time to the hour and ½ hour.  The class
worked with both analog and digital clocks.  They are doing a great job telling
time to the hour and they realize that every time that the minute hand is on the
12...that it means “o’clock.”  We are also working hard on telling time to the half
hour by stating it two different ways:  for example 3:30 can also be said as “half
past 3.”  So, this is a more challenging concept for the 1st graders to understand.  
The first graders took an assessment on telling time and did an amazing job!

This week, first grade students will be reviewing several concepts that have been
taught.  Mrs. Bloomfield and I will be teaching mini-lessons and giving
mini-assessments in order to complete grades for the upcoming Trimester report
cards.

Week 24 Homework

March 5th - March 8th

Monday	IXL - M.2 Write numbers as 10’s and 1’s up to 20
Tuesday	IXL - M.3 Place value models up to 100
Wednesday	IXL - M.4 Convert between 10’s and 1’s
Thursday	IXL - M.5 Write numbers as tens and ones

Week 24 March 5-8

Dear First Grade Families.

This week we will continue to work on our slideshow projects.  We are hoping to finish them this week and be ready to present them to you next week. We will send an email and post on the blog when the final date is for these presentations.

BOX TOPS

A wonderful parent has volunteered to do our box tops again.  Your child brought home a box tops sheet on Thursday be sure to save those box tops. If our class make $100 in box tops we will get a treat. 

Last Week 

• We took our MAPS test.  All the first graders made great growth on this test.
• We worked hard on our slideshow presentations.
• We learned all about mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, insects and amphibians.
• We review parts of speech and learned about prepositions. 
• We compared Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and wrote about who we thought was the best president out of the two. 

This week 

• We will finish up our projects.
• we will continue to learn about the different animal groups. 
• We begin our poetry unit. 
• We will also be taking some end on the trimester assessments.

Spelling will resume this week.  

Math News from Miss Garcia

Happy Monday,

This week we will continue to work on telling time to the hour and half hour using analog clocks.  We focused on this concept at the end of the week last week however, still need much more practice telling time.

The first graders will also be using a 100 chart to find 10 more, 10 less and 1 more, 1 less than a given number between 1 - 100.  Remember that your child has a 100 chart in their binder along with a number line as a resource to use for their homework.

Week 23 Homework

February 26th - March 1st

Monday	IXL - U.3 Match analog and digital clocks
Tuesday	IXL - U.6 Time of everyday events
Wednesday	IXL - U. 5 A.M. or P.M.
Thursday	No Homework - Assessment on Telling Time

Have a great week!!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia