📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK
Reading / Literature: We read the first three chapters of My Father's Dragon, and learned how the boy's father began his rescue mission of the dragon.
Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page below for the reading volunteer signup.
Mrs. Aguayo
Mrs. Santiago
Ms. Baines
Poetry:
Washington by Nancy Byrd Turner
He played by the river when he was young.
He raced with rabbits along the hills,
He fished for minnows, and climbed and swung,
And hooted back at the whippoorwills.
Strong and slender and tall he grew -
And then, one morning, the bugles blew.
Over the hills the summons came,
Over the river's shining rim.
He said that the bugles called his name,
He knew that his country needed him,
And he answered, "Coming!" and marched away
For many a night and many a day.
Perhaps when the marches were hot and long
He'd think of the river flowing by
Or, camping under the winter sky,
Would hear the whippoorwill's far-off song.
Boy or soldier, in peace or strife,
He loved America all his life!
Math: This week, we practiced how to add two-digits with regrouping / renaming. For first grade, we stress on adding the ones place first. If it's more than ten, we regroup and rename it to the tens. (Nine or less, let it rest. Ten or more, move the tens up next door). The children should also be familiar with adding by decomposing numbers (making a ten to add). This is a good foundation for mental math. Reinforcing the skill of making a ten at home would really go a long way too.
History: We reviewed how the American Revolution started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and made a sequencing accordion book of the timeline of those events. We learned that the colonial leaders finally wanted to be free from Great Britain, and declared their independence. We pretend we were like Thomas Jefferson making our own Declaration of Independence.
Science: Continuing in our Ocean Unit, students learned about the giant squid and the sea turtle this week. They learned that Giant Squids are large predators. They also learned about their unique features and how there is little known about them. They learned that the sea turtles live near the coasts but don't go into the open sea. They also learned the life cycle of the sea turtles.
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Have a great week!
1st Grade Teachers
