Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

Hello everyone, here is a run down of grade 1 for today:

Language Arts: Regular nouns (person, place or thing, not names) vs. Proper nouns (person place or things that are names). Understanding when to use a capital letter. Practiced naming and writing proper nouns for different places, such as: Kaohsiung, Dominican International School, Aozhidi Park, Taiwan.

Math: Completed the Chapter 5 Assessment on different strategies we can use to solve addition sentences and addition word problems.

Science: Completed a review together on Animals and their classifications in their Science Fusion book. Tomorrow we will be having an small assessment on the animal kingdoms and their classification. We have reviewed and learned a lot about this in class. Matching which animals have eggs or live babies and the difference in their skin types (scales, feathers, hair, etc..) as well as their basic needs (water, air and food).

Today we also wrapped up the presentations of Animals from last week, I was so impressed in the improvements from a lot of the kids! They are doing wonderfully! We will take a break from presentations this week. Please remember to send in their Reading Logs as they finish them so I can give students new ones, every time a log is filled out, Dojo points are rewarded.

Spelling Quiz on Friday: Spelling words for the week are once again High Frequency Words in the English language and all of them are words that your child is using daily in school.

1. thank
2. this
3. think
4. they
5. then
6. like
7. over
8. once
9. will
10. said
11. only
12. other
13. just
14. after
15. every

Homework: English Work Book Plus page 30
Write spelling words three times

Have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

Hello everyone! Here is a summary of our day:

Language Arts: Regular nouns vs. proper nouns (names of people, places and thins) Practiced adding capital letters to all proper nouns in sentences.

Math: Different addition strategies, understanding which one works best for which problems. Word problems.

Social studies: Assessment Unit 2

Science: Classifying animals in more than one way. Understanding what makes each classification of animals unique. Using adjectives to describe animals, and to help us classify them.

Homework: Science Apply Concepts worksheet &
Study for spelling quiz tomorrow.

Happy Birthday to Jinny! We had a great pizza party today!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Hello all, here was our day today:

Story Time: We read some books Julia brought from the City Library about Halloween, kids loved them! 

Math: Addition strategies, adding doubles, and using doubles facts to make adding easier. Chapter 5 Assessment has been moved to Tuesday, we would like to practice word problems for a few more days before the assessment.  

Social Studies: We created mini books with important information about this unit, we have included definitions and drawing inside of these mini books, I encourage you to have your child read the mini book to you. 

Homework: 
Spelling- Spell each word 3 times.
Math - MPB page 5.3
Social Studies - Read your Mini book to someone. 

Here is the schedule for All Saints Day on Friday:

Friday, October 30^th, 2015 1-4 p.m.

 

·         12:45-1:15: Put on Costumes

·         1:15-2:15: Division Games

·         2:15-2:30: Break

·         2:30-3:20: Individual classroom All Saints’ Day related activities

·         3:20-3:50: Parade and Arranged Pictures (parents are invited at this time to participate and take pictures)

Monday, October 26th, 2015

Happy Moday parents, hope you had a great weekend. Today has been a busy Monday for us here in Grade 1, so here is some information on what we have done and news for the week:

Assembly

Math: Continued with chapter 5, different adding strategies, today we focused on using a number line and moving it to the right to add numbers. We will be having a chapter 5 assessment this Thursday, Oct.29th.

Reading: We reviewed the ow/oa sounds, later we introduced the term" alphabetical order" and discussed how to find words in a dictionary and explained why we use dictionaries. We had small competitions to see who could find words quicker. We copied the new spelling words which are HFW (High frequency words, words which we use often in a day):

• more
• work
• was
• were
• great
• done
• under
• around
• your
• first
• there,
• don't
• about
• before 
• because

Social Studies: Fiction vs. Nonfiction, understanding what these terms mean and what are facts. We took turns saying sentences and guessing if they were nonfiction or fiction. We will be having a quiz on Wednesday, which we will review for tomorrow. This will include questions about the following terms:

• presidents
• voting
• laws
• white house
• government
• symbols
• constitution
• George Washington / Ma Ying-jeo 馬英九 / Barack Obama

 Reminders:

• Students bring in their costumes to change into after lunch for All Saints Day Parade. 
• Animal presentations are due for Friday Oct. 30th 1st period.
• Spelling Quiz will be on Thursday, since we will not have time after presentations on Friday. 
• No school Monday Nov. 2nd for Teachers Professional Development. 
• Quarter Magazine have been sent home today, hope you enjoy them! 

 
 

American and Taiwanese Symbols Presentations Friday, Oct. 23rd, 2015

Dear parents,
Thank you so much for your help with our presentations this week! Most of the students did very well, it is a skill we will be working on as I had mentioned, through out the year. Next week we will be having one on Animals. 

The main facts I would like students to focus on are as follows:

Animal classification

• What it eats
• Is it cold or warm blooded?
• Does it have live babies or lay eggs?
• Where in the world do we find it?

Suggestions: 
I suggest students write down words to help them remember this information, but not whole paragraphs to read from. I also suggest using simple words all kids can understand and keep in mind the purpose is for them to learn new facts and get used to the idea of presenting new information in front of others. 

The Animals are as follows:

Jackie Lizards
Julia Goldfish
Jinny Giraffes
Jason cheetahs
Amber turtles
Jonathan penguins
Ahmrae angelfish
Luca parrots
Olivia tigers
Kevin cats
Zoey dogs
Nison lions
Fiona rabbits
Bella alligators 

This presentation is due Friday October 30th 2015

If you have any questions please let me know, here are pictures of the kids with their 1st presentation projects!

Reading Buddies teach each other Science: Living vs. Nonliving!

This week for Reading Buddies we decided to make it a little different and have Grade 5 talk to Grade 1 about Living and Nonliving things. Then they completed an activity together, the grade 5 students acted as teachers to their buddies to help them fill out their worksheet it worked really well! Here are some pictures, hoe you enjoy them:

Oct. 22nd, 2015 Field trip Grades 1-3 Kaohsiung Museum of Science and Technology

Hello parents, I would first like o let you know all the kids behaved wonderfully during the field trip. We had so much fun, here are some pictures from yesterday: