Announcements for April 16th, 2021

Science

Your scholar should have received a Unit 2 Ch.3 take-home study guide. Please run through these questions and answers at home to help prepare them for the test on April 21st. Next week we will start our chapter on growth and development!

History

We will still be discussing Unit 7, which is the Early Explorers and Settlers.

This is a great unit and the students are really enjoying it.

Math

This past week our first- grade students had quite a time learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour! Talk with your child about “how long” or “how short” of time it is to do a variety of activities. For example, it takes about 5-10 minutes to eat a snack, but 30 minutes to eat dinner.  Ask them, “Which takes longer?” Hopefully, they respond, “It takes longer to eat dinner.” Also, continue to help your child practice their “time-telling” skills at home as much as possible.   

 

This week our math scholars will learn to count, read, and write whole numbers to 100. They will first be introduced to the tens, i.e., 50, 60, the number symbols and the number words. Then, using countable items and number cards, students will be led to see that they can count in tens and ones to write the corresponding number symbols. They will also continue to practice telling how many tens and ones a given-number is. At the end of the week the scholars will begin to learn how to estimate the quantity of an item within a container by comparing the proportion of the unknown quantity with a known quantity within another container of the same type. This method of estimation is useful for quantities that differ by about ten or in multiples of ten.

Literature

We are enjoying Elmer and the Dragon thus far! We have learned that Elmer and the Dragon have not travelled very far due to a storm. We have also learned that pink lollipops are a treat that makes everyone feel better!

If your scholar does not have this book, you may order it by Clicking here. 

Other Announcements

Encourage your scholar to persevere striving for excellence in their schoolwork,  and behavior until the end of the school year. This will build the virtue of integrity!

 

It is best practice to help your first grader check their take-home folder daily to clean out their folders and keep graded papers home (unless it needs a parent signature), and make sure that homework is completed and put back into their black folder. Thank you for your support in helping your child be organized and responsible for their homework and folder.

 

Reminder: Please send your child to school with a book from home so that they may read quietly during dismissal time. Thank you.