Quarter 3 Week 7

Hello First Grade!

We hope you had a fun, fabulous and relaxing 4 day weekend!  This week will go by quickly due to our extra day of vacation.

Here is bulletin board Mrs. Loop's, Miss Garcia's, Mrs. Bloomfield's and our class made with all the reasons we love reading!!! It is hanging in the hallway be sure to check it out if you are in the area!!!

Last week we in Grade:

• first graders added pictures to their slide shows
• we learned about the reason we celebrate Presidents Day
• We added knowledge about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
• We wrote about what we would do if we were the president.

This week we will....

• add animation to our slideshows
• practice presenting the slide shows with our partners and share them with Mrs. Loops class.
• make a diorama of the animal they researched.
• during Daily 5 we will practice writing complex sentences.
• use 5 star sentences to write a narrative story.
• due to the short week we will not work on a spelling pattern.

In math we will continue to practice the skills needed in order to decompose/compose numbers.  However, our main focus will be telling time to the hour and half hour!  The students are very interested in telling time, we have been reading the digital clock in the classroom.  We also have an analog clock and their inquisitive brains have asked about a clock with Roman Numerals!  Wow!

Some of the Key Vocabulary will include:

analog, digital, hour, minute, half hour, half past

Analog Clock Digital Clock Roman Numeral Clock

Homework for the Week of February 16-18th…

Tuesday	IXL S.2 - Match a digital time
Wednesday	Telling time worksheet
Thursday	IXL - S.3 -match analog and digital clocks

Mark Your Calendar

1st grade student will be sharing their animal slideshows on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, in the afternoon before student dismissal.  The exact time and location will be updated soon!

Have a Great Week!!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss. Garcia

Quarter 3 Week 6

Happy Monday!!!

Last week in first grade...

• We worked on our non-fiction slide shows.  We are working with our partners to type all our great information.
• We learned more about conjunctions and complex sentences
• We read books about the different categories of animals and answered and asked questions about each group.
• Wrote complex declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory 5 star sentences.

This week...

• Our spelling pattern will be ime words.
• We will continue to work on our slide shows. We will be finishing our typing and adding pictures. We will be presenting  these to our families in the next couple of weeks so be sure to check back for the time and date.
• We will begin learning about the job of the president. We will learn all about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
• First Graders will continue to write valentines to our classmates. Look for these wonderful bucket fillers in their binders.

Reminder

We will not be celebrating Valentines this year, due to the fact that it falls on a weekend. Students will not be allowed to pass out Valentines.  

Next Monday is Presidents day! We will not have school!  Enjoy your long weekend!!

News from Mrs. Garcia

1st Grade Blog - Week 24

First Graders are continuing to work on decomposing and composing numbers to make a group of 10 and a group of 20!  This has been a challenging concept for many of the students to “get.”  We continue to practice these concepts and this week the students will work in pairs to create the steps to solve problems and then will present their equation to the class and explain the 4 steps that they need to take in order to compose a 10 or 20!

The kids continue to work on fact fluency through work with “high number” activities.  Students work on their “high number” for 10 minutes daily.  In this 3rd quarter, first graders are being assessed weekly.  It’s exciting to watch the first graders build fact fluency!!  They are becoming very competitive, and are aware of their high number.

Friday, February 12th is President Lincoln’s Birthday and Monday, February 15th is President Washington’s Birthday.  I wonder if we could figure out how old each President would be…?

Monday	IXL B.17 Adding 3 Numbers
Tuesday	IXL B.19 Related Addition Facts
Wednesday	IXL F.7 Addition & Subtraction true or false
Thursday	No Homework due to assessment.

Have A Great Week!!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Math News Quarter 3 week 5

Dear Bighorn Families,

BBBRRR, what a wonderful, wintery weekend!  Miss Garcia and myself hope that everyone was able to take advantage of the opportunity to play in the snow right in our own backyard!!  It was great to drive through town and see all the unique snowpeople adorning local yards.

First Grade students have been busy with our continued work on decomposing and composing numbers to make a ten, adding 3 one-digit numbers being sure to show work (look for numbers that make ten, look for numbers that are easy to add), and solving word problems that involve adding 3 one-digit numbers.  Students will assess on these skills on Tuesday.  

First Grade students have been busy working on fact fluency through work with “high number” activities.  Students work on their “high number” for 10 minutes daily.  In this 3rd quarter, first graders are being assessed weekly.  It’s exciting to watch the first graders build fact fluency!!

Homework

Monday	Test Review Worksheet
Tuesday	IXL B.18 Word Problems Adding Three Numbers
Wednesday	IXL F.6 Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Thursday	IXL F.8 Ten More or Less

We are looking forward to a fabulous week!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Bloomfield

    and

Miss Garcia