Monthly Archives: April 2017

Friday

Here are a couple of videos for the weekend. They clearly help them! 🙂

click here for equal parts video

click here for prefix video

Have a great weekend!

NWEA

I am so proud of all of my first graders! They did awesome on their math NWEA test, and I want to thank all of you for your support and continued work with your child. They will take the reading NWEA on Tuesday, so let’s keep up the stamina! Have a great weekend!! Read those books!

April 27 Homework

Please remember we take the NWEA math test today 🙂 Wish us luck!!

Homework tonight has to do with counting tens and ones. Here is a helpful video.

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Below is a video about past tense verbs:

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Writing Topic: Make a t-chart showing the difference between fiction and nonfiction books.

This video might help:

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Homework 4-26

Tonight’s homework is three digit addition problems. See the videos below for help and NWEA review.

We will take the math NWEA tomorrow morning so please make sure your child is rested and has a good breakfast.

Writing Topic: Write three facts about your topic.

click here for three digit addition video

click here for sentence video

April 25 Homework

Hello Families,
Tonight’s homework will will be a great review for our NWEA testing. Please remember, we will take the math NWEA on Thursday morning 🙂

Here is a helpful video to help them learn to add 10 and 100.

click here for adding 10 or 100

Here are a couple videos about pronouns. These are words that replace nouns (such as her, he, it, she, They)

click here for pronoun video

click here for pronoun song

Writing Topic: Make a list of words (adjectives) to describe yourself.

Homework April 24

Tonight’s homework asks students to use the number grid to add or subtract. They should be able to look at the number grid and add or subtract 10 by going up or down. When you subtract tens, you simply go up. When you add ten, you simply go down. Watch this video for help.

click here for number grid help

Here’s another helpful video:
click here for adding 10

We are reviewing for NWEA this week. Let’s start with nouns. Please watch this video for a review that a noun is a person, place, or thing.

click here for noun video

Writing topic: Write nouns that are people, places, and things.

Have a happy Monday 🙂

Number Grid Video

This is a great video to help students see patterns with numbers 🙂

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Happy Sunday to all of you 🙂

Week of April 24

Hello families! I hope you are all having a relaxing weekend 🙂 Here are our plans for the week. I really encourage you to check the blog each day, as I post important information about homework and videos that will help your child with the concepts that we are learning about in class.

Spelling

Words

1. boat

2. soak

3. road

4. show

5. snow

6. glow

7. because

8. best

9. upon

10. these

Reading: We continue to explore nonfiction text features in order to gain information about a topic. We have been comparing and contrasting Nonfiction and fiction books and looking at similarities among books and different topics. This is an important skill for reading comprehension and writing. I have started testing children for their current reading level. So far, I am beaming with pride at the growth they have made this year. Please continue the great work at home. I know it is sometimes challenging to keep the momentum and academic stamina once the weather gets warmer, but we have many weeks of learning ahead of us. I am committed to working hard every day to help your child’s last weeks in first grade very successful ones. One way for you to help your child at home is to ask him/her to RETELL stories to you at home. This is challenging for some children and it prevents them from moving on to the next reading level (including on their reading test). After you child reads, (close the book) ask him/her to start at the beginning and tell you the important events in the story.

Writing: We are publishing our animal reports. These turned out great! Additionally, we are researching the habitats, diets, and important facts about animals that interest the students. We gather information by reading (or using text features in) nonfiction books about an animal and recording these facts on a graphic organizer.

Math: We will have a Unit 8 test this week. Concepts that we are working on include being able to divide a shape into fourths, halves, and thirds. They must be able to write what it means to divide a shape into halves or fourths (to divide it into 2 or 4 equal parts). Also, we are working on counting tens and ones. They must be able to break apart a two digit number into tens and ones. For example: 67= 60+7

Science: Our “lawns” are growing! The kids are so excited about our sprouted grass and alfalfa sprouts. We are learning about the life cycle of plants and certain animals (frogs and butterflies). They should know that the term life cycle means that living things change and grow (stages) throughout their lives.

Social Studies: We are taking the social studies test about maps, places, human and physical characteristics, and directions (left and right).

NWEA: We will take our Math NWEA test on Thursday morning. Please make sure that your child eats a healthy breakfast and gets plenty of rest the night before. I encourage you to talk to your child about the importance of taking his/her time and really focusing during the test. You may send an extra snack to school this day.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Homework 4-20

Students must circle and count groups of ten for homework tonight. Additionally, there is practice for NWEA testing in reading for homework.

See videos below for assistance:

click here for contraction video

Please watch this video on decomposing numbers for addition. This will help them with our Math test.

click here for decomposing number video

Writing topic: Write two ways plants and animals are the same (similar).

Homework 4-19

Tonight’s homework asks students to count groups of tens and ones and record the number.

Writing Topic: Make a list of manners we should use on the playground.

click here for teenage numbers video

click here for manners on the playground book

Have a great day!

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