Hello First Grade Families,
I want to remind all of you to return your completed Community Helper paper doll to school by Thursday, September 29. This paper doll should resemble one of the student's parents at work, as all parents help our community and are essentially Community Helpers. Take some time to write about your job as well. Both the paper dolls and your writing about your job will be shared in class and hung up in the hallway for all to see. If you want a paper doll to complete for each parent please contact me and I will be happy to send home another paper doll.
Last week we began writing in our journals during work on writing time in the morning. The kids were super excited to get their journals and be able to write in them. We listened to a story called Rhyming Dust Bunnies and the students got to practice rhyming. They all created their own rhyming dust bunny also. This surprisingly is a hard concept for most of the students in our class. I would recommend while driving in the car say a word aloud to your child and ask them to say a word that rhymes with it. Focus on real words at first and then allow them to say made up words as well that rhyme.
This week we also began learning about syllables in words and learned three different ways to determine how many syllables are in a word. Click on the link below to see the short video explaining the three ways that the students learned about.
This week students will complete their writing to a Community Helper who we have been studying about. The local Community Helpers that we have been studying include police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses, and sailors. We will complete our appreciation letters this week and will plan on presenting these to the local agencies in the near future.
We will also begin spelling tests this week. Students will be working on the following word families this week: -at and -ap. Students will be introduced to their words on Monday and they will be making a book with pictures that match the assigned word families on Mondays and Tuesdays in class. They will bring their books home to practice reading and they can practice spelling the words in their books. All students will be assessed on their spelling words on Thursday mornings.It’s officially Fall. Please send your child to school with a sweatshirt and make sure to label everything! This is the time of year when water bottles and sweatshirts start to fill up OA’s Lost & Found!
Math News
Happy Monday!
The first graders have been working telling number stories. Then they put their number story into a Number Bond or an equation. We have been focusing on Math vocabulary such as: add, equals, altogether and count on.
This week the first grade students will be using a number line to count on from a number and also to solve an equation. All first graders have a number line in their binder to use as a resource.
Example: 4 + 3 = __
Have your child start at number four and count on three more numbers to land on the sum of 7.
Example 4 + 3 = 7
Monday
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C.2 Adding 2
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Tuesday
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Worksheet - adding on to find a sum
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Wednesday
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J.2 Which sign makes the number sentence true?
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Thursday
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J.7 Addition & subtraction sentences: True or False
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It will be a busy week! ~ Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garica
