week 27 3/36 - 3/29

Happy Monday,

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. It was nice seeing all the happy faces at the baseball opening day. I can't believe we only have 4 more days of school until spring break. The students and teachers are looking forward to our week off.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

A big thank you to all the Parents, Family and Friends that were able to come and watch the 1st graders present their slideshows.  They really worked hard on these and were so excited to get to present them to you.

REMINDER

• Spring Break - Next week is spring break. April 2nd through April 6. We will return to school on April 9.  
• Scholastic Book Order -- If you wanted to order books please do so by Wednesday, March 27. 
• Box Tops -- Save those box tops.  Oasis is currently doing a box top drive. 

Last week in first grade we...

• Wrote an Ing and I like poem.
• explored the 2 ways a shadow can move.
• Practiced and Practiced our slide shows.
• Read stories and determined whose point of view it was written from

This Week we will...

• Write an I wish, Important and Haiku poem.
• Share these poems with the class. 
• Read the story The Day the Crayons Quit, and determine whose point of view the different letters are written from and also the feeling involved in those characters. 
• Explore more about how the sun creates shadows and why we only see the stars at night. 

I am going to post the slideshows to the blog so your be looking for these.  

Math News From Miss Garcia

It’s Spring Break week!  The students and teachers are excited and ready for a week of relaxation.  I hope that your family is doing something fun and exciting. Be safe and enjoy!

The 1st grade students will continue to work on adding up to 100 using both Branch Method and Partial Sums.  Prior to Spring Break we will count amounts of money and work on Problem Solving on numbers higher than 20.

Again, here is an example of the Partial Sums.  Please reference these examples on the blog if you are unsure of how to help your child with these strategies.  

Partial Sums                  2  4 →      20 + 4                            + 3 3  →   + 30   + 3         5 0      50 + 7                                                       + 7          57

 

Week 27 Homework

March 26th - 29th

Monday	Worksheet - Partial Sums
Tuesday	IXL - Q.1 Names and Values of common coins
Wednesday	XL -  Q3 Count pennies, nickels and dimes
Thursday	No Homework - Happy Spring Break!

 

Have a wonderful Easter and spring break!! See you April 9th.

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Week 26 3/19 - 3/22

Good Morning 1st Grade Families,

I hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend.  There is a lot going on with baseball, softball, swim team, swing dance and lacrosse!  Please make sure to be responsible with your academics completing 20 minutes of reading and 15 minutes of math each night, Monday through Thursday.  This week we will celebrate the season of Spring and the 100th Day of School!

Reminders:
Presentations:  1st graders will be presenting their slideshows on WEDNESDAY March 21, from 1:30-2:00.

Book orders: If you would like to place a scholastic book order please do so by March 27. The books will be in the week after spring break.  Here is a link: 
https://clubs.scholastic.com/home our class code is HLFMD.

Conferences:  Please sign up for parent teacher conferences.  There are 2 dates available March 23 and April 13.  There are still a lot of times to choose from we are striving to have 100% participation. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's growth and progress 

Last week we...

• Practiced our slide shows by presenting to our class and to Miss Garcia's second graders. 
• Began our poetry unit. We wrote Acrostic and Color Poems. 
• completed assessment for the end of the trimester. 
• Read books that are written in poetic format.

This week we will...

• Continue writing poems including Ing poems, I like poems, and I wish poems. 
• begin our unit on Earth, Sun and Moon and how they move in the sky,
• Learn all about root words and how the meaning of a root word can change by adding a prefix or suffix. 
• Identify whose point of view a story is written from. 

Math News from Miss Garcia

This week the first graders  will be working on adding numbers up

to 100.  You will see your child using two strategies: Branch Addition as well as a new strategy called Partial Sums; here is an example of each…

Week 26 Homework

March 19th - 22nd

Adding 2-digits to a multiple of 10 27  + 20 = ___      ↙ ↘   ↙ ↘   20 +  7 + 20 + 0 = ___  (20 + 20) + (7 + 0) = ___        40 +  7 = 47

Partial Sums                  2  4 →      20 + 4                            + 3 3  →   + 30   + 3         5 0      50 + 7                                                       + 7          57

Week 26 Homework

March 19th - 22nd

Monday	IXL - A.18 Which even or odd number comes before or after?
Tuesday	Worksheet - Branching Adding a multiple 10.
Wednesday	Worksheet - Partial Sums
Thursday	Worksheet - Partial Sums

Have a great week!!

Mrs. Rowlett & Miss Garcia

Animal Slideshow Presentations

Happy Tuesday!!

First graders will be presenting their slideshows to family and friends!!!

When:  Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Where: Oasis Cafeteria
Time: 1:30 - 2:00

We hope you can make it.  Extra parking is available at the college. Please enter through the front entrance and sign in at the counter. 

Also, if you haven't already done so please sign up for a conference.  A sign up genius was sent out Sunday night.  Let me know if you didn't get the email.  

Thank You!!