Week 15 -- 12/18 to 12/21

Happy Holidays,

I can't believe we only have 4 days left until winter break.  This year is just flying by. 

Last week in first grade we...

• learned how light travels in a straight line. 
• made cup a phones to demonstrate how sound is made from vibrations.
• reviewed common, proper and possessive nouns.
• finished up our opinion writing.
• use our senses to write about what it would be like to live in a snow globe.
• learned about exclamatory and imperative sentences. We now know all about each type of sentence. 

This week we will ...

• finish up our unit on light and sound, by learning all about the materials light can travel through. 
• take an assessment on nouns.
• follow direction to complete a directed draw and then write one of each type of sentence about our drawing.
• We  will not have spelling this week!

Thursday will be our Christmas party.  We will be decorating cookies and rotating through some fun crafts and games. 

Math News from Miss Garica

We are down to the last 4 days of school before Winter Break!  We can see and feel all of the “hustle and bustle” of the holidays!  Enjoy the Christmas Season and Winter Break with your families. Mrs.Bloomfield and I look forward to seeing all of you on Monday, January 8th 2018!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

Miss Garcia & Mrs. Bloomfield

Week 18 Homework

Dec. 19th- 20th

Monday	V.4 Compare sides and vertices
Tuesday	W.2 Name the 3 dimensional shape
Wednesday	W. 4 Select 3 dimensional shapes
Thursday	No Homework - Merry Christmas!

Have a wonderful Holiday!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

 

          

Week 14 - 12/11-12/14

Hello first grade families, 

Wow! This school year is just zooming by.  I can't believe we only have 2 weeks until winter break.  We still have so much learning to get in.

Last week we...

• Learned about Declarative sentences (these are sentences that make a statement).
• Learned all about how sounds are made from vibrations and that the pitch of sounds can be high or low. 
• Learned all about possessive nouns.  Nouns that show possession and have an apostrophe s.  
• started our opinion writings.

This week we will...

• learn about the other 3 types of sentences (interrogative, imperative and exclamatory) 
• finish our opinion writings.
• explore how light travels in straight lines and explore the materials light can and can't go through. (transparent, translucent and opaque),
• Along with our science unit on light and sound we will use our sense to complete a writing project.

Reminder boys basketball sign ups are currently open. Check this out if you think you son might enjoy this sport. 

We will have a Christmas celebration on December 21, from noon to 1.  There will be more on this soon.

Math news from Miss Garcia

1st Grade Blog

Week 14: December 11th - 14th

The first graders took an assessment on graphing.  They did a great job as it was a long test.  They are having trouble distinguishing between fewer and most.  Which goes back to finding the difference between two pieces of data.  Also, we have focused on addition and combining groups of however, this concept also crosses over into graphing because the students must combine certain groups to find a sum of how many students collected data.  We will re-visit graphing again after the 1st of the year.

The first graders will be working with shapes until Winter Break.  

This week the first graders will focus on both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes.  As a class we will name 2-dimensional shapes, draw and discuss open vs. closed shapes and will count sides and vertices of shapes.  

2-dimensional shapes 3-dimensional shapes

Week 14 Homework

Monday	IXL - V.1 Name the 2-dimensional shapes
Tuesday	IXL - V.5 Open and closed shapes
Wednesday	IXL - V.2 Select 2-dimensional
Thursday	IXL -  V.3 Count sides and vertices

Have a great week!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 13 -- December 4 -- December 7

Dear First Grade Families,

We had a fun week of learning last week.  It was exciting to see how many students choose to read over Thanksgiving break. The kids loved getting a surprise when they returned to school on Monday. 

Last week in first grade...

• We finished our "Me on the Map & Who is in charge"  flip books. They are hanging in the hallway for the week. Students will be bringing them home soon.
• We learned all about the different types of communities (Urban, Suburban, and Rural).
• We reviewed nouns and learned about common and proper nouns.  Please review this concept with your child throughout the week.

This week we will...

• begin a project on sound and vibrations.
• learn about the 4 types of sentences -- declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative.
• reviewed common and  proper proper nouns. We will begin to learn about possessive nouns and completed an assessment to show our understanding of each type of noun.
• explore facts from opinions. Student will complete a graphic organizer to write their opinion on the toy everybody should get for Christmas. 

Reminder -- 

Book orders -- A Scholastic book order went home last week.  If you would like to order from our Scholastic book order please have your order in by December 6th. This way they will be delivered in before Christmas Break!!  If these are a gift please email me and I will make sure to deliver them directly to you.

Conferences will be held this Friday -- If you have not signed up for conferences please do so asap.  I look forward to meeting with you!!

Math News from Miss Garcia

We continue to work on graphing.  The students gather, organize and interpret data using different types of graphs.  They then have to answer how many more/how many fewer votes.  The first graders will take an assessment on graphing on Thursday.

Homework for December 4th - 7th

Monday	Worksheet - graphing
Tuesday	Worksheet - graphing
Wednesday	IXL - O.4 Which bar graph is correct?
Thursday	No Homework - due to the assessment

Have a great week!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 12 -- 11/27/17

Hello First Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a relaxing fall break filled with family, friends and fun.  It was nice having a week to rest and recharge.  I am looking forward to seeing all those smiling first grade faces Monday Morning.

The sign up for parent conferences went out last week.  If you did not receive the sign up genius please make sure to email me.  If you are unable to make it in during the times listed please let me know and we will work out a time to meet.  I look forward to meeting with you.  

Homework reminder

Homework will be back to normal this week. 1st graders will have their reading and math.  We will also have our weekly spelling test (the first graders do practice in class during daily 5) and sight words.  

Here are pictures of our community helper posters the groups made they all worked so hard and did an amazing job on this project.

This week in first grade we will...

• Review where in the world we live.  
• Identify the the 7 continents, and 5 oceans.
• determine the type of community we live in (rural, urban, suburban).
• name common and proper nouns.
• ask and answer W questions when reading. 

Math news from Miss Garcia

This week in math Mrs. Bloomfield and I will introduce graphing.  We will gather and count amounts of data.  So far, we have only focused on Pictographs.  However, the students will learn several types of graphs: pictographs, bar graphs and tally charts.  The first grade standard states that your child must be able to organize, represent and interpret data with up to 3 categories AND ask/answer questions about the data in each category.  Here are a few examples of the graphs that your child will be able to “read” and gather information from.  We focus on stating the questions when reading graphs as: “How many more, how many less” as well as “altogether.”

The students will also continue to take several mini assessments for the end of the Trimester.

Pictograph Tally Chart     Bar Graph

Homework for Nov. 27th - 30th

Monday	IXL - O.1 Record data with tally charts, picture graphs and tables
Tuesday	IXL - O.2 Interpret data with tally charts, picture graphs and tables.
Wednesday	IXL - Worksheet - Stuffed Animal Pictograph
Thursday	IXL - O.3 Interpret Bar Graphs

Have a great week!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 11 & 12

Happy Week 11 & 12!!!

Time is flying by I can't believe we only have 1 more week until fall break and Thanksgiving.  

Last week the first graders presented their posters to the 2nd and 6th graders. They did an amazing job working on these projects. I will post pictures of the groups and their amazing posters later this week. 

Last week we also had a few visitors to our classroom...

• Molly Dahl  taught us about mindful breathing and how it helps up learn.
• Mrs. Craig taught us all about the job of a Emergency Room nurse.
• Mr. McCormick came with his flight gear. He told us what it is like to be in the military.
• Mr. & Mrs. Heath visited us and told us all about being a doctor.

Thank you to all these wonderful community helpers for taking time out of their busy schedules and visit with us. WE APPRECIATE all our community helpers!!

This week in first grade we will begin an new project. We will learn all about where we live on the map and who is in charge. We will also learn all about nouns and continue to identify the problem and solution of the story!!

Homework

We will not be doing formal reading groups this week so your child will not be bringing home a book to read.  They are more than welcome to borrow books from my library if they would like. Please choose a book to read for their night reading. Since Thursday begins our break we will only have reading homework Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  

Reading over Break

If your child chooses to read over Fall Break please make sure to log their reading.  If they read for 20 minutes 5 of the days of break they will get a reward when they return to school. This is totally optional.

Math News from Miss Garcia

This week in first grade the students used Number Bonds to create fact families.  A picture of our fact families was posted on the Oasis Facebook page, check them out!  They also reviewed methods of subtraction and completed several mini assessments throughout the week.

Mrs. Bloomfield and myself continue to have the students write answer statements when they are problem solving.  Answer statements fit in perfectly with “Format Matters” which we use when answering a question.

This week we will work on the correlation between addition and subtraction, using a number line and a hundred chart to count on or back and focus on subtraction equations.

Homework for November 13th -16th

Monday	IXL - H. 1 Subtraction facts Numbers up to 10
Tuesday	IXL - H.5 Complete the subtraction sentence
Wednesday	IXL - H. 6 Subtraction Word Problems up to 10
Thursday	No Homework - Happy Thanksgiving & Fall Break!

Have a Wonderful Holiday!!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 10 -- 11/6/17

Fall finally feels like it is here. The weather is definitely cooling down especially in the mornings.  Please make sure your child wears layers so they are comfortable with these crazy temperatures.

We had a excitingly busy week last week. We had a visit from the Sheriff's office (Thank you Officer Maynez) telling us all about their job and how they are community helpers. We got to look at their cool tools and their police car.  We also had our Halloween party which was a lot of fun!! Thank you to Mrs. Piexoto, Mrs. Pheasey, Mrs. Pascoe, Mrs. Wadsworth for planning the fun activities for us to do. Also a big thank you to Mrs. Craig for making our spooky treats.  Along with all this excitement we managed to work hard on our community helper projects. We also go in some fun Halloween writing too.

1st Quarter ended on Thursday.  However, Oasis Academy has moved to trimesters except for Specials.  This means that your child will receive a report card 3 times this year instead of 4 and they rotate into another special on Monday: For our class it is Music with Mrs. Barton.  

Below you will find a slide show of our fun filled week.

This week we will... finish up our community helper posters and present them to our class, the 2nd and 6th graders. have visit from a doctor, nurse and a soldier. begin learning about nouns. write appreciations to a community helper. identify what we are thankful for. Math News from Miss Garcia The Book Fair was a great success!  Thank you to ALL of the parent volunteers who made it happen.  We appreciate all of the time and effort that you put into the Oasis Academy Book Fair. This week your 1st grader will continue relate addition to subtraction within 10.  We will continue to work with numbers by: counting on, making “ten,” composing and decomposing, and creating fact families.  Mrs. Bloomfield and I would also like to gets our kids started on their addition facts in order to build their “fluency” of working with numbers within ten.  Starting with addition and later in the year, working with subtraction. Monday IXL H.14 Subtraction Sentences True or False Tuesday Fact Family houses worksheet Wednesday IXL J.3 Fact Families Thursday IXL J.4 Addition and subtraction facts to 10

Week 9 -- 10/30/17

Happy Halloween!!

We have a busy, busy week this week. It is Halloween with our costume parade and our party. It is also book fair week and we will have a visit from the Sheriffs office. They will be sharing their job as a community helper with us. Below you will find the dates to remember.

Monday -- visit from the Sheriff's office

Tuesday -- We will visit the book fair to make our wish lists. You may send in money to purchase the items on the wish list or you may visit our book fair on Family  night which is Thursday from 6-8.

Tuesday -- Halloween party at 1:00.

Thursday -- Family Night at the book fair from 6-8. 

**Students will not have any homework on Tuesday!! Have a fun and safe Halloween!!!

Along with all these fun events we will be learning

•  to use context clues when encountering unknown words.
•  sort words according to long and short vowel sounds.
• create our community helper posters to share with our classmates
• practice closed syllables
• use format matters and good habits of discussion when participating in classroom discussions and answering questions.

Last week we...

• All did really well on our spelling test.
• used the beginning sound to guess unknown words.
• completed our outlines for our community helper posters.

Math news from Miss Garcia

Well, we are getting better at saying “Commutative Property!”  Last week I had listed the following example.  

Here’s an example of Commutative Property:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

Now we are taking it one step further by finding the missing addend in an equation.  For example:  __+ 3 = 9 or 6 + __ = 9

Again, this will also lead the 1st graders into working with Fact Families!

Here’s an example of a Fact Family (in which the students will eventually fill in the missing addend,subtrahend, difference or sum:

__ + 2 = 9

2 + __ = 9

9 - __ = 7

9 - 7 = __

Here are a few more examples, this is one way that we set them up in class, in a “Fact Family House.”

Fun Family Activities

Continue to skip count by 10’s, 5’s and even 2’s driving in the car or playing outside.  We learned the “Zero Rule”...Any number added to zero is the same number!  We are also keeping track of Data during or weekly graphs.  Make a family graph at home!

Monday	Commutative Property Worksheet
Tuesday	No Homework - Happy Halloween!
Wednesday	Fact Family Worksheet
Thursday	IXL H.13 Related Subtraction Facts

Week 8 -- 10/23 Slideshow

Happy Monday

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. The weather was beautiful!

The temperature is crazy with freezing lows in the morning and highs in the 80's in the afternoons.  This means that we have a lot of clothing layers.  Please make sure to label your child's clothing. It is hard to locate missing clothing if they are not labeled.



Halloween
We will be celebrating Halloween on Tuesday October 31st.  Your child may wear their costume to school. Please make sure their costume covers as much as their uniform. We will be having a costume parade for the students in the morning and will have a Halloween party in the afternoon from 1:00 to 2:00. If you would like to help out with our celebration please let me know.  We need 2 more volunteers to plan a game or craft for our party.

Last Week in first grade...

• first graders practice sorting words according to how many syllables they have.
• Groups worked on their Community Helper projects.  The 6th graders came and helped the first graders find pictures for their projects.
• We practiced an Earth quake drill.
• The fire fighters visited and taught us all about fire safety.
• learned about fiction stories.
• First graders practiced good habits of discussion

This week we will...

• Continue to work on our Community Helper projects by creating a poster
• learn all about non - fiction books
• Learn about closed syllables (syllables with 1 vowel, followed by 1 or more consonant and the vowel is short)
• Sort word according to long or short vowel

1st graders will be starting spelling this week. You will find their spelling list for the week in their binders. 1st graders will practice their words in class during Daily 5 each day and will test on these words Thursday. 

Slide show from this week!!

Create your own photo slideshow

Math News from Miss Garcia

1st Grade Blog

Week 8 - October 23rd - 26th

At first the students worked with number lines in class by counting on and then writing and equation (6+2=8).  The next day we carried this concept one step further by going out into the hallway to use the “Big” number line.  As we used the number line to count on and add one number to another, we also used the Commutative Property to rewrite our equations!  Let me tell you, that is a mouthful for the kids to say and they usually end up saying “community property.”  We are working on it!

The students are better at writing the Commutative Property than saying it!

Here’s an example of Commutative Property:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

By introducing the students to the Commutative Property this concept will soon lead into Fact Families which we will be learning about soon.

Here’s an example of a Fact Family:

7 + 2 = 9

2 + 7 = 9

9 - 2 = 7

9 - 7 = 2

Fun Family Activities

Skip count by 10’s, 5’s and even 2’s driving in the car or playing outside.  Also work on counting on from any number up to 100.  Another fun activity is using a deck of cards or UNO cards and flipping two cards and comparing them using greater than, less than, equal too or taking two playing cards and writing them into an equation and adding them together.

Monday	Worksheet - T or F  Equations
Tuesday	IXL F.1 Subtract with Pictures Up to 10
Wednesday	IXL F.2 Subtraction Sentences Up to 10
Thursday	IXL F.4 Subtract 0 and All