Week 31
It was a very busy week in Room 112...
We started new units in reading, writing and math!
The amazing first grade readers are sounding like reading stars! They are solving tricky words and reading like fluent readers. We got to show off that we are the "Bosses of our Reading" by reading to our 4th grade buddies on Wednesday. It was amazing to see their pride and their buddies amazement, as they read their good fit books!
In writing, we wrapped up our opinion unit and the first graders began planning and writing realistic fiction stories. They are creating characters, introducing problems (uh-oh) and coming up with solutions (phewf). They are using dialogue within their stories to help develop their characters and add details to their stories.
The math farm unit is here! This unit involves place value, money, area & perimeter, mapping and computation. As part of the unit, first graders will be building and maintaining their own "farms." :)
As a first grade team, we are getting to pilot the district's new Life Science curriculum. We are studying animal body parts and the role that they play in their survival. At the end of the unit, students will engineer solutions to a problem using animal body parts as inspiration (biomimicry).
Here's a fun math challenge activity that can be done anywhere - maybe even the park on a sunny day!
What You Need: Deck of playing cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed, Scratch paper, Pencil, 2 or more players
What You Do:
1. Have your child remove the face cards from the deck and set them aside.
2. Ask them to shuffle the deck and deal out four cards to each player. Make sure they deal them face down, so nobody can see the hand they were dealt. No peeking!
3. Place the remaining deck face down in the center of the table.
4. Have one of the players flip over the top card and place it face up on the table. This is the target number.
5. Announce that aces = 1.
6. Count to three and have all players turn their cards over at the same time.
7. Encourage players to add or subtract the numbers in any combination to try to reach the target number. Make sure that players use all four of their cards. Have players use scratch paper to verify their math.
8. Whoever can create an equation that hits the target number first gets one point.
9. The player to reach 3 points first wins!
10. When four cards become too easy, try playing with five cards instead.
Helpful Tip: Tell players to keep rearranging the layout of the cards to see new equation possibilities.
Reminders: April 28: Stephenson Top Golf Fundraiser,9:00am-12:00pm
April 29: Accepting Field Trip Chaperones
Photos from the week...
We started new units in reading, writing and math!
The amazing first grade readers are sounding like reading stars! They are solving tricky words and reading like fluent readers. We got to show off that we are the "Bosses of our Reading" by reading to our 4th grade buddies on Wednesday. It was amazing to see their pride and their buddies amazement, as they read their good fit books!
In writing, we wrapped up our opinion unit and the first graders began planning and writing realistic fiction stories. They are creating characters, introducing problems (uh-oh) and coming up with solutions (phewf). They are using dialogue within their stories to help develop their characters and add details to their stories.
The math farm unit is here! This unit involves place value, money, area & perimeter, mapping and computation. As part of the unit, first graders will be building and maintaining their own "farms." :)
As a first grade team, we are getting to pilot the district's new Life Science curriculum. We are studying animal body parts and the role that they play in their survival. At the end of the unit, students will engineer solutions to a problem using animal body parts as inspiration (biomimicry).
Here's a fun math challenge activity that can be done anywhere - maybe even the park on a sunny day!
What You Need: Deck of playing cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed, Scratch paper, Pencil, 2 or more players
What You Do:
1. Have your child remove the face cards from the deck and set them aside.
2. Ask them to shuffle the deck and deal out four cards to each player. Make sure they deal them face down, so nobody can see the hand they were dealt. No peeking!
3. Place the remaining deck face down in the center of the table.
4. Have one of the players flip over the top card and place it face up on the table. This is the target number.
5. Announce that aces = 1.
6. Count to three and have all players turn their cards over at the same time.
7. Encourage players to add or subtract the numbers in any combination to try to reach the target number. Make sure that players use all four of their cards. Have players use scratch paper to verify their math.
8. Whoever can create an equation that hits the target number first gets one point.
9. The player to reach 3 points first wins!
10. When four cards become too easy, try playing with five cards instead.
Helpful Tip: Tell players to keep rearranging the layout of the cards to see new equation possibilities.
Reminders: April 28: Stephenson Top Golf Fundraiser,9:00am-12:00pm
April 29: Accepting Field Trip Chaperones
Photos from the week...
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