Slideshow presentations

Thank you all for showing up to support your wonderful children while they presented their slideshows. The first graders worked really hard researching, typing, editing and animating these amazing presentations.

The slide shows can be found from the navigation bar under the animal presentation link.

Thanks again for your support!

Math News from Miss Garcia

Happy Monday Bighorns!

We are back into a full 4 day work week.  Our math class will continue to focus on telling time and working on “high number” facts.  The 1st graders are doing a great job working with “o’clock” time, we will continue to work with half past 7 or 7:30.  The students need to know that vocabulary.

As a class we will also discuss estimating time: it is almost 8:00 or it is about 8:30.  The kids are required to be able to tell “about” what time it is.  However, it is NOT a standard that is graded on their report card.

We often hear from the higher level teachers 4-6th that the students have a very hard time telling time...this is the new generation.  They can read a digital clock on computers, cell phones, tablets etc.  However, it is VERY important that all students are able to tell time on an analog clock.  The kids have asked many clarifying questions about how to tell time!

This is our last full week of February and we only have 3 weeks until until the end of 3rd Quarter!!!

Monday	IXL -S.4 Read clocks/write times
Tuesday	IXL - Time worksheet
Wednesday	IXL - S.6 Times of everyday events
Thursday	IXL - P.2 Describing patterns (review)

Quarter 3 --- week 8

Wow how time flies! We have almost complete the 3 quarter of school.  The school year is flying by and the first graders are almost 2nd graders.

Save the Date

On Thursday, February 25, 2016

All 1st grade students at Oasis Academy will be presenting their animal slideshows that they have created.  They have been researching their assigned animal and are now ready to share what they have learned.

Please come anytime between 1:00 and 1:40

Students will be performing in the "dungeon" which is the building where the book fair was held right next to the OLD school entrance. 

Please plan on parking in the big parking lot in front of Louie's Dollar Plus.

You are welcome to take your child home at 1:40 after they are done presenting.

We hope to see you on Thursday, the kids are so excited!

A email also went home from Mrs. Loop with this information.  

Last week in first grade...

• we practiced our slideshows and added animation to them.
• we created a diorama showing the animals habitat and what they eat.
• we practiced making complex/compound interrogative and declarative sentences.
• we also learned some interesting facts about our former presidents.

This week we will...

• share our slideshows with the 2nd graders
• begin our poetry unit
• continue to write compound/complex sentences

*** Our Spelling pattern this week will be ay (the cool dudes).

On Thursday we were invited to watch the middle school kids present their simple machine projects. The first and 2nd graders had a lot of fun watching these great projects.  Here are some pictures from this fun event. 

Have a Great Week!!!