Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Monday, April 6, 2015
This week in First grade...
April 6-10
REMINDERS
I hope you enjoyed some family time over the weekend. The Caballeros were busy! From a golf outing to the movies, a train ride to Burnet and celebrations with our families here and in New Braunfels we are exhausted! I look forward to a calm week!
Here are a few reminders for this week:
Here are a few reminders for this week:
REMINDERS
Monday: Homework Folders come home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Homework folder is due
Family Fun Night 6:30-7:30
READING and WRITING
Our first graders did a fantastic job researching facts and information about chicks. They are all becoming research experts! We borrowed the iPads from Mrs. Rinehart's classroom and made presentations with our chick research.
Some made a Smore (digital flyer/poster)...
Some made a Prezi (similar to powerpoint)...
One used an application called My Story and made a book with titles then put audio clips in for the listening pleasure of the audience!
These kids did an amazing job!
These kids did an amazing job!
This week we will move on to independent research about animals. On Thursday each student chose an animal from the three animal groups of birds, fish and mammals. Today I sent home the book they choose and a Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction chart. We used this chart as a class to organize our learning about chicks. In our classroom the students will utilize the Library website and search engines to find out more about their animal as they independently research facts about their animal's body parts, habitat, food, movement, life cycle and interesting facts.
MATH
This week we will apply our problem solving strategies to solve a variety of math word problems involving time, money, addition and subtraction. In first grade we emphasize showing the steps involved in solving the problem. These steps are reading the problem carefully, underlining important data and information, drawing picture and show any strategy that they have learned such as number line, addition and subtraction strategies to solve the problem. Showing the steps in an organized form allows the students to understand the problem better and use thinking strategies.
SCIENCES
This week in science we are taking our knowledge of animals, their habitats and interdependency of living things and using it to take a closer look at our neighborhood and animals that live in our community. We will start a project that focuses on how deer impact our community.
This week we will apply our problem solving strategies to solve a variety of math word problems involving time, money, addition and subtraction. In first grade we emphasize showing the steps involved in solving the problem. These steps are reading the problem carefully, underlining important data and information, drawing picture and show any strategy that they have learned such as number line, addition and subtraction strategies to solve the problem. Showing the steps in an organized form allows the students to understand the problem better and use thinking strategies.
SCIENCES
This week in science we are taking our knowledge of animals, their habitats and interdependency of living things and using it to take a closer look at our neighborhood and animals that live in our community. We will start a project that focuses on how deer impact our community.
Monday, March 30, 2015
This week in First grade...
March 30-April 2
REMINDERS
Thank you so much for all of you who came and ran with us at Shamrock'n Roll Run. The children had so much fun seeing their family members. Keep up that healthy lifestyle!
Here are a few reminders for this week:
Here are a few reminders for this week:
REMINDERS
Monday: Homework Folders come home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders and report cards come home. Please sign the report card envelope and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Return Tuesday folders and Report Card Envelopes.
Thursday: **Library Day** All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Spring Holiday
Tuesday: Tuesday folders and report cards come home. Please sign the report card envelope and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Return Tuesday folders and Report Card Envelopes.
Thursday: **Library Day** All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Spring Holiday
READING and WRITING
We will continue our research on chicks. The children are very excited since we now have a few eggs in our incubators and we are expecting them to hatch in less than three weeks (April 13th or 14th)! We are recording the facts that we learn and also jot down our "wonder" questions. The "wonder" questions will encourage us to do more research and find out more. So far, we have been learning about the body parts of chicks, and their life cycle. This week we will delve into this and find out about how a chick grows inside an egg, where chicks live and what they eat.
MATH
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents, although they are often called differently. We have been learning about the inter-dependency of living things in their ecosystem for the past couple of weeks. This week we will move on to simple food chains. We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but the other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents, although they are often called differently. We have been learning about the inter-dependency of living things in their ecosystem for the past couple of weeks. This week we will move on to simple food chains. We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but the other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.
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