Week 21 - February 12- 15

Happy Monday, 

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  

Just a reminder...we will be having our Valentine's Party on Wednesday at the end of our school day.  The kids will exchange Valentine's and have a small treat, provided by me.  If your child is bringing Valentine's cards, please have them sign the cards, but leave the "to" section blank.  We have 24 kids in our class.

Last week in first grade:

We learned about adjectives and how to use them in a sentence.

• We practiced writing vowel consonant e words.
• We finished making our nonfiction polar bear books.

This week in first grade:

• We will practice using adjectives before the noun in our sentences.
• We will scoop and label open, closed, and vowel-consonant-e syllables.
• We will learn about conjunctions and how to use them to connect ideas in our sentences.
• We will share our polar bear nonfiction books with the 6th grade classes.
• We will begin working on our partner animal projects.

A Math Message from Mrs. Bloomfield

First Graders are continuing to work on decomposing and composing numbers to make a group of 10 and 20!  This has been a challenging concept for many of the students to “get.”  This week will be just as challenging; the students will be working within 100.  They will decompose a two digit number to get to the next “10” by decomposing a two digit number.  Please look at the example below in case you or your child is unsure of what the steps to complete the homework.

Here is an example of this week's homework:

34    +    12  = ___

↙ ↘        ↙ ↘                   1.Decompose 34 into 30 and 4 and 12 into 10 and 2

30   4 +  10  2                  2.Combine “like” place value; tens and ones

(30 + 10) + (4 + 2)           3. Add 30 and 10 then add 4 and 2

  ↘  ↙           ↘  ↙

   40     +       6 = 46         4. Add 10’s and 1’s together to find the sum.

President’s Day will be celebrated on February 19th.  Oasis will not have school on Monday, February 19th!

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

February 12th - 15th

Monday	Worksheet - Add a two digit number to a two digit number
Tuesday	Worksheet - Add a two digit number to a two digit number
Wednesday	No Homework due to Valentines Day
Thursday	IXL - C.5 Adding 5’s

Have a Happy Valentine's Day and a great week!
Mrs. Rowlett & Miss. Garcia

Week 20 - 2/5-2/8

Happy February First Grade Families,

Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia wanted to give a A GIGANTIC thank you to all that were able to come to Math Night last Tuesday!  It was great to see so many families enjoying playing math games and working on math puzzles!  We are hoping to make this an annual event!!

We can't believe that just changed the calendar pieces from January to February!!  How can we be done with the first calendar month of 2018???

Last week first graders were busy, busy...

• We reviewed nouns and verbs.
• We learned all about adjectives.
• review open and closed syllables. 
• We worked on our penguin research project books. We researched where they live and added bold print words that we will include in our glossaries.
•  We are still working on adding proper punctuation to our sentences. This is a struggle for first graders.

This Week We will...

• Add cool facts to our non-fiction penguin books.
• learn all about the life cycle of a penguin.
• put word in abc order to add to our glossaries and indexes.
• Choose the animal to research with a partner.
• Use adjectives to make empty nouns exciting.
• Learn about the vowel consonant e syllable type.

Below are a few pictures of the syllable types. 

Valentines day 

The first graders will be exchanging Valentines on Feb. 14th.  If you child would like to send in Valentines for the other classmates please be sure to bring 1 for each student and have your child only sign their names. 

Math News from Miss Garcia

Happy Monday!  Last week our 1st grade classes focused on adding two;
1 digit numbers to compose (make) a group of 10 without “renaming.”  
This week we are introducing adding a two digit number to a one digit
number without renaming.  This is going to be DIFFICULT for most students.  
Please refer to the examples below AND have them use their 100 charts in their
binder as a tool to count on.  You are NOT helping your child out by just telling
them the answer.  We have taught them many strategies in order to figure out
equations.

Examples:

 23 + 4 = 27 54 + 2 = 56

 ↙ ↘  (decompose 23 into 20 and 3) ↙ ↘  (decompose 54 into 50 and 4)

20 + (3 + 4)   add 3 and 4       50   (4 + 2)  add 4 and 2

        ↘↙ ↘↙

20   +   7  =  27              50  +  6 = 56

Happy Monday!

Miss Garcia & Mrs. Bloomfield

Week 20 Homework

January February 5th - 8th

Monday	Worksheet - Decomposing
Tuesday	Worksheet - Decomposing
Wednesday	Worksheet - Add a two digit number to a one digit number without renaming
Thursday	Worksheet - Add a two digit number to a one digit number without renaming

 Have a great Week!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garica

Week 19 -- 1/29-2/1

Hello First Grade Families.

I wanted to give a shout out to the first graders!! They are doing an amazing job with their spelling.  I am seeing these patterns transfer over to their writing.

I can't believe that this is our last week in January. This trimester is going by quickly.  We have been busy, busy learning. The first graders are making great progress.

Last week in First Grade...

• we began our informational books about penguins. As a class we are researching penguins and using the information we learn to write a non-fiction book. This book will include a table of contents, bold print words a glossary and an index. It also contains a diagram with labels and pictures with captions.
• We learned all about verbs.
• we compared open and closed syllable words/
• We completed an assessment on type 4 types of syllables.
• We read Tacky the Penguin books. (which are loads of fun)

This week we will...

• continue our non-fiction penguin book; including what they eat, where they live, their life cycles and cool facts about them.
• continue to locate and use verbs in sentences.
• review the 4 sentence types (this is confusing to most 1st graders)
• Compare and contrast 2 Tacky books. 
• Use open and closed syllables to spell and decode words. 

Congratulations to all the students who received perfect attendance. This was a difficult task to do with all the illness that has been going around.

Math news from Miss Garcia

I cannot believe that it is the last week of January and the beginning of February!  The first graders finished up their unit on Non-standard measurement unit and moved onto composing (making) and decomposing (breaking down) to make a sum of ten.  This will also continue to introduce the students to the Associative Property.  

On Tuesday, January 30th, Oasis Academy will be hosting Family Math Night.  All families will meet in the cafeteria at 5:30 and then break out into different classrooms for fun games and math activities.  Mrs. Bloomfield will have 2nd math activities and I will have activities geared towards 1st Graders in Room 3.  See you there!

Associative Property:

Add 2 + (6 + 4) = 2 + 10 = 12  

The 6 and 4 can be used to compose a 10.  So.... 2 + 10 = 12

            

Mrs. Bloomfield and I always send home an example on the homework pages:  Here is an example of decomposing 4 into 2 and 2 in order to compose a 10 by adding 8 to 2.

Example: 8 + 4 = ___                                                     ↙ ↘  (decompose 4 into 2 & 2)                                                    2    2 (add the 8 to 2 to compose a 10)                                     (8+2)  =  10  +  2 = 12

Happy February!

Miss Garcia & Mrs. Bloomfield

Week 19 Homework

January January 29th - February 1st

Monday	Worksheet - adding 3 digits
Tuesday	No homework - Come to “Math Night” @ 5:30
Wednesday	IXL E. 11 - add 3 numbers
Thursday	IXL E.12 - Add 3 numbers - word problems

 Have a great week.