Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

Hi parents,
We have finally finished with exams and are really excited about 4th quarter and final quarter. So many things still left to do and learn!

Today we:

Reviewed our exams and corrected them to find our mistakes and earned some bonus points.

Began an introduction to Chapter 10 Math: Number Orders. Completed exercises in our books and took turns calling out numbers and using the words "right before" "in between" and "right after"

We practiced counting syllables and vowels in words. We separated words into syllables and added new vocabulary to our phonics booklets.

In social studies we talked about what "history" meant and different ways we measure time. Read an excerpt called "Understanding our Past".

Thank you to Julia who brought these great film cards so we were able to watch the watch the eclipse this morning as well as watch a live recording from Borneo where we could watch the Total eclipse! Kids loved it!

Important for tomorrow: 

Tomorrow, March 10th, 2016 -  Individual picture day, please make sure your child is wearing their proper uniform.


Homework: 
Math: MPB: 11.1Science: I am sending home a worksheet for Science Fair, as many kids have brought in questions but they still need extra work, please help you child's group fill this out. It should have the problem and hypothesis. Problem is Step 1 and Hypothesis is STEP 2. These are due by Friday  March 11th, 2016. 

Friday, March 4th, 2016

Hello parents! 

This week we have been working on writing our first fiction story. We have gone through all the process, such as brain storming, planing, drafting, editing and now they have completed their final drafts! I am very proud of their hard work on this. Today we focused on Science Unit 8, we pretended to be the galaxy and everyone played a role to understand these important facts:

• The sun does not move.
• The planets revolve around the sun.
• Earth takes 1 year to go around the sun.
• The moon goes around the Earth.
• The Earth is always spinning.

Important Reminders!

Tuesday and Monday will be Quarter Exam days
Dismissal will be at 11:45, please pick up your children by then.
If you have any questions regarding exams, please feel free to write to me this weekend.Kids will take home Science and Social Studies books in case they would like to review. Have a great weekend!

World Culture Day in Grade 1

Hello parents! Wanted to inform you that our presentations today were so great and thank you for all the support you gave you have your child in accomplishing these tasks! Enjoy pictures of them! I am sending home the last reviews for my exams next week. They can begin to take books home if you would like tomorrow to review on the weekend. 

Homework :

Prepare for Music Quarter Exam and Christian Living Exam.

Julia Talked to us about Cherry Blossoms in Japan

Miya told us about the Fashionable Country France

Bella spoke about her birthplace: Australia!

Nison made us hungry with pictures from American food

Fiona had so much to share about this beautiful island Taiwan!

Olivia showed us traditional Korean dress she looked so CUTE!

Olivia and her mom are from South Korea, she says she loves Kimchi, so does Ms. Lopez. So spicy I love it!

Jackie spoke to us about Mexico and their most famous celebration, Day of the Dead. Spooky stuff

Kevin also made us hungry talking about Italian food, like Pizza! Kevin's favorite

Jinny shared information about France, and taught us how to say "Hello" in french, Bonjour

Ahmrea shared her stuff about her hometown, the Philippines. She says the beaches are amazing :) 

Johnathan spoke to us about ancient Egypt, did you know they drank beer instead of water?!

Luca shared information about Israel with us. So much to learn about religion. He even  visited a great Israeli restaurant here in Kaohsiung to show us pictures of the food. He loved it!

Upcoming Quarter Exams 03/01/16

Dear parents, 
Hope you enjoyed this long weekend with great weather!

I am letting you know this weeks final exams schedule to help your children prepare:

Wednesday March 2nd - Health

Thursday March 3rd: Christian Living / Music

Friday March 4th: P.E. / Computer / Chinese

Monday March 7th: (HALF DAY) Language Arts/ Math/ Reading

Tuesday March 8th: (HALF DAY) Social Studies  / Science

If you have any questions regarding the exams, please feel free to write to me and Ill will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Some reviews were sent out on Friday, and the rest will be sent out tomorrow. Once again lets try to make this experience a positive one, we will be reviewing in class and making sure we understand all the topics before hand. This week will be focused on reviews.


Home work: 
Math: MPB 10.7 
Review for Health with your book and notebooks.
Social Studies: Presentation

Thursday, February 25th, 2015

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 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 :)

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!