Hi parents! So today in Grade 1 we...
Math: Word Problem solving! Using tens and ones to make addition and subtraction easier.
Language arts: Wrote Final parts of our first short stores. The "solutions" and ends.
Phonics: Long vowel sounds and reading A Day at the Grand Canyon.
Science: What is the sun? How many stars are there? How big are stars? Whats a constellation?
Homework:
Reading: Read "A Day at the Grand Canyon" to parents
Spelling: Study for Quiz tomorrow.
Science: Sum It Up page 300
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
Hi parents!
Today we :
Language arts: Practiced story mapping, shared our stories together and created characters for our first short stories written individually!
Math: Tens and Ones concepts.
Social Studies: Different foods around the world. Shared our traveling experiences.
Science: Introduction to Unit 8: Objects in the Sky.
Homework for tonight:
Math: MPB 10.3 and 10.5
Language Arts: WBP pages 67-68
Important Information:
This Friday Feb. 26th we will have Mass in the morning and then pictures for yearbook, please make sure your child comes in formal uniform and ready for school picture. Thank you :)
Today we :
Language arts: Practiced story mapping, shared our stories together and created characters for our first short stories written individually!
Math: Tens and Ones concepts.
Social Studies: Different foods around the world. Shared our traveling experiences.
Science: Introduction to Unit 8: Objects in the Sky.
Homework for tonight:
Math: MPB 10.3 and 10.5
Language Arts: WBP pages 67-68
Important Information:
This Friday Feb. 26th we will have Mass in the morning and then pictures for yearbook, please make sure your child comes in formal uniform and ready for school picture. Thank you :)
Monday, February 22, 2016
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Hello parents, we have been busy these days in school, here is a quick recap from class for Monday and Tuesday:
Math: Continue to work on place values. We are learning how place values can make adding and subtracting easier, as now we can work so well with 1-9 digits. We are looking at different ways of forming numbers and of solving word problems that include multiplication by understanding place values.
Multi step operation example: If Jon has 8 boxes or apples, and in each boxes there are 10 apples, how many apples does he have? What about if there are two more apples outside of the box? How many apples altogether?
10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10=80 80+2=82
Language Arts and Spelling: We have been reviewing the parts of speech nouns and verbs and have moved on to introduce adjectives. The spelling words this week are all adjectives and students will be using a lot of them to form sentences with the intention of describing characters in stories. We are in the process of creating personal short stores. Today we worked on character development and adjectives.
Spelling Words: pretty, massive, terrible, horrible, bright, brave, wild, loud, beautiful, honest, wise, perfect, silly, fancy and selfish
Reading: Story Maps, developing characters. understanding problems and solutions in story plots.
Social Studies: We continue to learn about culture in different countries and what they mean. Its hat time again for Class Presentations!
Assignment Oral Presentation: For this presentation, each child has a country and they must present certain information about that country's culture. Here should be the important topics to discuss: Language, food, religion, clothes, music and any interesting information. Their presentations do not have to be long, but must include this information. Kids can bring any souvenirs or food that they would like to share from their country. If you would like to change their country for any reason just let me know. And I hope this will really encourage the kids to really learn about the world!
Due: Presentations will be Wednesday March 2nd
Bella Australia
Olivia Korea
Ahmrae Philippines
Jonathan Egypt
Jackie Mexico
Julia Japan
Jinny France
Nison USA
Fiona Taiwan
Miya England
Kevin Italy
Hank China
Luca Russia
Jason Brazil
Homework today:
Fill out a Story Elements page with any of your library books or books you may have at home.
Have a great night!
Math: Continue to work on place values. We are learning how place values can make adding and subtracting easier, as now we can work so well with 1-9 digits. We are looking at different ways of forming numbers and of solving word problems that include multiplication by understanding place values.
Multi step operation example: If Jon has 8 boxes or apples, and in each boxes there are 10 apples, how many apples does he have? What about if there are two more apples outside of the box? How many apples altogether?
10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10=80 80+2=82
Language Arts and Spelling: We have been reviewing the parts of speech nouns and verbs and have moved on to introduce adjectives. The spelling words this week are all adjectives and students will be using a lot of them to form sentences with the intention of describing characters in stories. We are in the process of creating personal short stores. Today we worked on character development and adjectives.
Spelling Words: pretty, massive, terrible, horrible, bright, brave, wild, loud, beautiful, honest, wise, perfect, silly, fancy and selfish
Reading: Story Maps, developing characters. understanding problems and solutions in story plots.
Social Studies: We continue to learn about culture in different countries and what they mean. Its hat time again for Class Presentations!
Assignment Oral Presentation: For this presentation, each child has a country and they must present certain information about that country's culture. Here should be the important topics to discuss: Language, food, religion, clothes, music and any interesting information. Their presentations do not have to be long, but must include this information. Kids can bring any souvenirs or food that they would like to share from their country. If you would like to change their country for any reason just let me know. And I hope this will really encourage the kids to really learn about the world!
Due: Presentations will be Wednesday March 2nd
Bella Australia
Olivia Korea
Ahmrae Philippines
Jonathan Egypt
Jackie Mexico
Julia Japan
Jinny France
Nison USA
Fiona Taiwan
Miya England
Kevin Italy
Hank China
Luca Russia
Jason Brazil
Homework today:
Fill out a Story Elements page with any of your library books or books you may have at home.
Have a great night!
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Science Fair
Hello
parents! Hope you had a great weekend. This post is dedicated to answering some
of your Science Fair questions and some information that might help
you.
First there are many resources that can help you look for questions and topics for Science Fair Questions, as well as help you understand how to complete each step. I will be working with the kids by modeling a science project in the following weeks so they can understand what will be expected from the judges. As a group project we will be doing the following experiment in class:
Question: What effect does soda, coffee, and tea have on our teeth?
This will be the first step, developing a question (problem) in order to make an experiment. If you are still undecided on a project, you can fill in the information on this page to generate ideas:
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml
or
https://sciencebob.com/science-fair-ideas/ideas/
If you would like to build something, for example a volcano, it must include a problem/purpose. For example:
Will the eruption of a model volcano be bigger is I use more baking soda or vinegar?
These are examples of how a board should be organized at the end of the project, there are many different styles of boards and some contain more information, but the most important steps that must be shown for Grade 1 students include:problem, materials, hypothesis, procedure, data and results and conclusion. They do NOT need to worry about controls and variables. We will be discussing each one in class and I will be updating with examples.
First there are many resources that can help you look for questions and topics for Science Fair Questions, as well as help you understand how to complete each step. I will be working with the kids by modeling a science project in the following weeks so they can understand what will be expected from the judges. As a group project we will be doing the following experiment in class:
Question: What effect does soda, coffee, and tea have on our teeth?
This will be the first step, developing a question (problem) in order to make an experiment. If you are still undecided on a project, you can fill in the information on this page to generate ideas:
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml
or
https://sciencebob.com/science-fair-ideas/ideas/
If you would like to build something, for example a volcano, it must include a problem/purpose. For example:
Will the eruption of a model volcano be bigger is I use more baking soda or vinegar?
These are examples of how a board should be organized at the end of the project, there are many different styles of boards and some contain more information, but the most important steps that must be shown for Grade 1 students include:problem, materials, hypothesis, procedure, data and results and conclusion. They do NOT need to worry about controls and variables. We will be discussing each one in class and I will be updating with examples.
I will be assigning different parts of the projects to be written on different days and will work with students in class to make sure they understand what is expected. We are still about 2 months away so we have enough time for working on everything and I will guide them along the way.
The first part will be formulating a question/problem:
Examples:
·
Does
music have an affect on plant growth?
·
What
is the best way to keep an ice cube from melting?
·
Can
the food we eat affect our heart rate?
·
Can
background noise levels affect how well we concentrate?
·
Does
acid rain affect the growth of aquatic plants?
·
Does
the color of light used on plants affect how well they grow?
·
What
plant fertilizer works best?
·
Does
the color of a room affect human behavior?
·
Do
athletic students have better lung capacity?
·
What
brand of battery lasts the longest?
·
Do
natural or chemical fertilizers work the best
If you are having
problems formalizing a question, please send me the group information and I
will work with that group to help them make one around their topic. If at any
point you would like to change the question, you just have to let me
know.
Questions are due
Monday January 29th. They
will be taking a form home this week to fill in.
If you have any
questions, please don't hesitate to let me know, you can send me Line message
or email!
Thank you!
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Hello parents!
Today in Grade 1 we....
Reading and Language arts: Reviewed and discussed what are elements of elements of a story. What are the following terms and how to recognize them in a story: title, writer, setting, characters and plot. We also integrated problems and solutions into the lessons. This is a way to work up to writing our first book report.
Introduction to chapter 10: Place Values! We learned what place values mean and where we can identify the ones, tens and hundreds place.
Science: Completed Science Review to prepare for Unit 7: Weather and Seasons assessment tomorrow.
Homework:
Math: MPB 10.1 and 10.2
Science: Read you science review to parents. Pages 287-289
Have a great night!
Today in Grade 1 we....
Reading and Language arts: Reviewed and discussed what are elements of elements of a story. What are the following terms and how to recognize them in a story: title, writer, setting, characters and plot. We also integrated problems and solutions into the lessons. This is a way to work up to writing our first book report.
Introduction to chapter 10: Place Values! We learned what place values mean and where we can identify the ones, tens and hundreds place.
Science: Completed Science Review to prepare for Unit 7: Weather and Seasons assessment tomorrow.
Homework:
Math: MPB 10.1 and 10.2
Science: Read you science review to parents. Pages 287-289
Have a great night!
Monday, February 15, 2016
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Hi everyone! Here is a recap of our day!
Language Arts: Worked on a new paragraph! all About My Family. As soon as these are returned students will have to rewrite for a final draft.
Math: Completed Chapter 9: Fractions and Probabilities! Tomorrow we begin chapter 10 :)
Science: Began and completed first half of Unit 7: Weather and Seasons review to prepare for assessment on Thursday.
Homework for tonight:
Write spelling words three times each.
Reading Log with new library book.
Have a great night :)
Language Arts: Worked on a new paragraph! all About My Family. As soon as these are returned students will have to rewrite for a final draft.
Math: Completed Chapter 9: Fractions and Probabilities! Tomorrow we begin chapter 10 :)
Science: Began and completed first half of Unit 7: Weather and Seasons review to prepare for assessment on Thursday.
Homework for tonight:
Write spelling words three times each.
Reading Log with new library book.
Have a great night :)
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Science Fair Rubric
Student Name(s):
__________________________________________________
Project Title:
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No
(0 pts)
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Somewhat
(1 pt)
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Mostly
(2 pts)
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YES!
(3 pts)
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Appearance of
Project:
Is the board well organized?
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Is the text easy to read and the
headings and
title easily visible?
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Did they use appropriate graphics,
images,
models
or demonstrations to help make their
ideas clear?
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Purpose:
Did the group
explain why their project is
important and interesting?
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Hypothesis:
Did the group
suggest an answer to their
question?
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Did they explain why they think so?
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Did they use background research to help
form
their hypothesis?
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Materials:
Are all the
materials for the experiment listed?
(Did they list quantities?)
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Procedure:
Are the steps
of the experiment clear?
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Data (quantitative
and or qualitative):
Is the data presented clearly (In tables,
charts,
graphs, photos, etc)?
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Results:
Did they make
observations about their data?
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Did they
explain their observations clearly?
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Conclusion:
Did they say if
their hypothesis was correct or
not?
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Did they try to
explain why or why not?
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Did they talk about possibility for future
experiments (*extra credit for Grade
1-3)
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Oral
Presentation:
Were the
students able to talk about their
experiment?
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Were they able to answer questions?
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Judge’s comments
to the student:
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