Week 34
Here are some highlights from the week...
In honor of National Prevent Animal Cruelty month (April), we had a visitor from the Humane Society come talk to the first graders. They learned all about what the Humane Society does and learned about dog safety!
The amazing first grade readers are sounding like reading stars! They are solving tricky words and reading like fluent readers. This week we opened up the Room 112 recording studio, where the kiddos are getting a chance to record poems for the kindergartners. It is so exciting to see and hear all of the growth they have made!
The first grade farmers have been busy adding to their farms and calculating costs. They are hard at work earning money and calculating costs using multiples of 5's and 10's.
In writing, the first graders are planning and writing their realistic fiction stories. They are creating characters, introducing problems (uh-oh) and coming up with solutions (phewf). They are using dialogue within their stories to help develop their characters and add details to their stories.
A HUGE thank you to Kerry Rose (Alice's mom) for giving her time and materials so the first graders could create their beautiful clay gifts! Another HUGE thank you to Brandi & Sydney (Jocelyn's mom and sister) for putting together the Popsicle stick picture frames. Finally, thank you to Mrs. McGrady for the beautiful watercolor flowers and "All About My Mom" sheets. Hope you all are enjoying the incredible creations - They sure had a great time making them :)
Here's a fun math challenge activity that can be done anywhere - maybe even the park on a sunny day!
What You Need: Deck of playing cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed, Scratch paper, Pencil, 2 or more players
What You Do:
1. Have your child remove the face cards from the deck and set them aside.
2. Ask them to shuffle the deck and deal out four cards to each player. Make sure they deal them face down, so nobody can see the hand they were dealt. No peeking!
3. Place the remaining deck face down in the center of the table.
4. Have one of the players flip over the top card and place it face up on the table. This is the target number.
5. Announce that aces = 1.
6. Count to three and have all players turn their cards over at the same time.
7. Encourage players to add or subtract the numbers in any combination to try to reach the target number. Make sure that players use all four of their cards. Have players use scratch paper to verify their math.
8. Whoever can create an equation that hits the target number first gets one point.
9. The player to reach 3 points first wins!
10. When four cards become too easy, try playing with five cards instead.
Helpful Tip: Tell players to keep rearranging the layout of the cards to see new equation possibilities.
Reminders:
5/15 -- Art Literacy @ 12:30 5/16 -- Late Open @ 10am
5/17 -- Farm Field Trip!
5/18 -- Book order DUE!
5/18 -- Day of the Child @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm
In honor of National Prevent Animal Cruelty month (April), we had a visitor from the Humane Society come talk to the first graders. They learned all about what the Humane Society does and learned about dog safety!
The amazing first grade readers are sounding like reading stars! They are solving tricky words and reading like fluent readers. This week we opened up the Room 112 recording studio, where the kiddos are getting a chance to record poems for the kindergartners. It is so exciting to see and hear all of the growth they have made!
In writing, the first graders are planning and writing their realistic fiction stories. They are creating characters, introducing problems (uh-oh) and coming up with solutions (phewf). They are using dialogue within their stories to help develop their characters and add details to their stories.
A HUGE thank you to Kerry Rose (Alice's mom) for giving her time and materials so the first graders could create their beautiful clay gifts! Another HUGE thank you to Brandi & Sydney (Jocelyn's mom and sister) for putting together the Popsicle stick picture frames. Finally, thank you to Mrs. McGrady for the beautiful watercolor flowers and "All About My Mom" sheets. Hope you all are enjoying the incredible creations - They sure had a great time making them :)
What You Need: Deck of playing cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed, Scratch paper, Pencil, 2 or more players
What You Do:
1. Have your child remove the face cards from the deck and set them aside.
2. Ask them to shuffle the deck and deal out four cards to each player. Make sure they deal them face down, so nobody can see the hand they were dealt. No peeking!
3. Place the remaining deck face down in the center of the table.
4. Have one of the players flip over the top card and place it face up on the table. This is the target number.
5. Announce that aces = 1.
6. Count to three and have all players turn their cards over at the same time.
7. Encourage players to add or subtract the numbers in any combination to try to reach the target number. Make sure that players use all four of their cards. Have players use scratch paper to verify their math.
8. Whoever can create an equation that hits the target number first gets one point.
9. The player to reach 3 points first wins!
10. When four cards become too easy, try playing with five cards instead.
Helpful Tip: Tell players to keep rearranging the layout of the cards to see new equation possibilities.
Reminders:
5/15 -- Art Literacy @ 12:30 5/16 -- Late Open @ 10am
5/17 -- Farm Field Trip!
5/18 -- Book order DUE!
5/18 -- Day of the Child @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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