First Grade Weekly News! September 27, 2024

News/Reminders

• Please be sure to check hw folder each day.  Empty out the papers in the leave at home section.

• Place the HW packet in the HW folder each day.

• Prodigy math game is a fun and engaging math game that is aligned with math standards. Prodigy Class Code: 3DF6226  Please sign up for a free Prodigy parent account to follow your child's learning progress. Here's the link to sign up: https://sso.prodigygame.com/parents/signup?referralOrigin=link&utm_campaign=teacher_parent_referral_link

•  LInk: First Grade Parent Tooklit

What We Are Learning:

Fundations: In Fundations this week we learned about the letters lowercase l, h, k, v, w, y, x, qu, z and their corresponding sounds. 

EL: We have continued our learning about tools and how they help us do our work.  We sorted different types of tools and read a non-fiction text called Tools by Ann Morris.   This work we specifically focused on tools that are used for cooking, eating, cutting and farming.

Students are also working on establishing discussion norms including listening with care, looking at the speaker, taking turns, and staying on topic. 

Math:  In math we continued our learning of  subtracting one or two. We introduced -1 Bingo. Two players share a board and a die. The player rolls one die.  Then they subtract one from their  roll.  They put a counter on the difference. The first person to get 5 in a row wins!

 We also learned how to come up with pairs of numbers that equal 10. In order to build on this concept we played a game called Toss the chips. The student get 10 chips. The chips are red on one side and yellow on the other. They take turns and play with a partner.They gently toss the chips and then count the colors that it lands on.

Home School Connection: 

Talk with your children about the season of fall.  What do you like to do in the fall?  Bring in, or draw a picture of something you like to do together in the fall.

Looking Ahead:

• No School October 3 & 4: Rosh Hoshanah

• No School October 14th: Italian Heritage/Indigenous People’s Day

• No School November 1: Diwali 

• No School November 5: Election Day

• Half Day November 7 (11:25am dismissal): Parent Teacher Conferences

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First Grade Weekly News! September 20, 2024

Fundations: In Fundations this week we learned about the letters lowercase a, g, d, s, e, r, p, j and their corresponding sounds. 

EL: We have continued our learning about tools and how they help us do our work.  We studied cooking tools ( whisks, funnels, ladles and tongs) and how they assist us in the kitchen. We looked  at math tools ( calculators, unifix cubes, measuring cups) how they help us with math activities. We read about science tools and learned about how they help scientists to do their jobs. Some vocabulary words that we have discussed are examine and observation. 

Math: In math we continued our learning about adding with the numbers 1 and two. We also introduced the new concept of subtracting one or two.  The students also used  the bead string as a tool to help them with solving these simple problems.

Ask your children to draw a picture of a tool that you use at work or at home.  They can also try to write two sentences about that tool. We will have a discussion about what they drew during our morning meeting on Monday.