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
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Partial Sums
2 4 → 20 + 4
+ 3 3 → + 30 + 3
5 0 50 + 7
+ 7
57
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Week 26 Homework
March 19th - 22nd
Monday
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IXL - A.18 Which even or odd number comes before or after?
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Tuesday
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Worksheet - Branching Adding a multiple 10.
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Wednesday
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Worksheet - Partial Sums
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Thursday
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Worksheet - Partial Sums
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Have a great week!!
Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia
