Thank you once again for being such a great audience for the first graders to present their slideshows to. They worked hard and were so excited to present them to friends and families. Remember they can be found under animal slide shows on the page tab on the top of the blog. Your child may present them to any family member that wasn't able to make it.
Last week in first grade we...
- perfected our slideshows by presenting to other first graders, the 2nd graders and a parent helper.
- learned all about prepositions and we wrote sentences with prepositions.
- has an assessment on conjunctions, but will continue to practice using these to make complex and compound sentences/.
- created a circle map on one of the other 1st graders animals and wrote an informational paragraph using this information.
This week is an eventful week! We will be celebrating the 100 day of school (on Tuesday) and Dr. Seuss's birthday (on Wednesday).
Math News from Miss Garcia
Dear 1st Grade Parents,
Welcome to the last day of February and the only occurring once every 4 years--Leap Day!!
In math first grade students finished their unit on time. Our main focus was using digital and analog clocks to read and write time to the hour and half hour. Students also worked on showing times to the nearest hour and half hour on analog clocks.
Students are catching onto telling time rather quickly but it is a skill that takes some practice (especially on analog clocks)!
Week 27 Homework
We will be working on adding 2 digit numbers within 100 by using the Branch Method. Here is an example listed below. Basically by looking at the following examples the kids are decomposing to group make tens and ones by adding like place values.
Ex: 31 + 6 = 52 + 12 =
↙ ↘ ↘ ↙ ↘ ↙ ↘
30 + (1 + 6) = 50 2 10 2
30 + 7 = 37 (50+10) + (2+2) =
60 + 4 = 64
Monday
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Branch addition worksheet
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Tuesday
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Branch addition worksheet
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Wednesday
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Branch addition worksheet
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Thursday
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IXL S.5 a.m./p.m.
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