School Pictures are scheduled this week! We will be getting our pictures taken on Thursday at 1 pm. We have wonderful mothers who volunteer every year during picture time and they make sure that every child's hair looks amazing before they get their pictures taken. So please do not worry that the pictures are scheduled in the afternoon. EVERY child will be getting their picture taken whether they plan on buying pictures or not. We want every child in our class photo.
Book orders are due on Friday, September 23. If you are interested in purchasing books for your child please submit an order online or to me by Friday.
Last week we began learning about community helpers. We learned what a community helper is and the kids each chose a community helper that they wanted to be and wrote about why they chose that community helper. These are hanging in the hallway. Many students wrote about wanting to be a police officer, firefighter, teacher, vet, and dentist. We did have a few choose farmers and dairymen as well. We watched short videos and heard stories read aloud about police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses and then we completed circle maps about them just like we did when we were completing our friend journals. We will continue to learn about sailors this week as the Navy is the branch of the military that we are most familiar with here in Fallon. The students will be choosing one of the community helpers that we have completed circle maps for and write appreciation letters to them later in the week.
This Week We will...
This week your child will be bringing home a family community helper project that you will need to complete with them. Both first grade classes at Oasis Academy are bringing home a person template for each parent to help decorate to show what job they do in our community. Be on the lookout for the information that will accompany the person template.
We also worked on sorting picture cards according to their vowel sounds. The kids had fun with this activity as I had them work in groups of 2 or 3 and when they were done sorting their cards they had to take a picture of their work with my cell phone. The pictures that I had on my phone at the end of the day were pretty entertaining as the kids obviously had fun posing for their pictures! I am posting a few below.
I am also posting a copy of the short vowel pictures that we are using in first and second grades for the kids to refer to when working with the short vowel sounds. Ask your child to do the gestures with each short vowel picture if they haven't already shown you.
Our specials class this quarter is art. The first graders are having a great time creating beautiful art projects. This week they made 3-D art. Here is picture of their creations
A few more pictures of our wonderful work!
Math News!!!
Week 6
September 19-22
The first grade students took their first summative assessment of the quarter. The students were expected to insert missing numbers into a sequence, count by multiples of 10, compare numbers using <,>,= and also tell which numeral was in the one’s and/or ten’s place and then model that number. Overall, Mrs. Bloomfield and I were very excited to see the growth that they have made in the first 6 weeks! Way to go first graders!!
Keep in mind that some skills are easy to practice at home or in the car such as counting from 1 to 100, skip counting by 10’s and 5’s as well as being able to count on from any number. For example start at the number 32 then count on 33, 34, 35, 36...etc.
Don’t panic if your child is writing numbers in reverse. It is very common for them to write numbers such as 2,3,5,6 and 7 in reverse. This is developmental up until 2nd grade. Call their attention to the number that they have written incorrectly and ask them to flip their number or re-write it correctly.
Homework September 19-22
Monday
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IXL B.1 Add With Pictures Up to 10
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Tuesday
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IXL M.3 Place Value Models to 100
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Wednesday
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Worksheet Greater Than and Less Than
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Thursday
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IXL K.3 Compare Numbers to 100
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Have a great Week!
