January 13, 2012
We have just one week left of marking period two. We are finishing our personal narratives, our memory quilt, our culture project and our math assessment.
Mrs. Wasser and I are focusing on what LISTENING means. It is hearing what is said, thinking about what is said and DOING what is said. It is a VERY important skill that many of us need to work on.
Our first grade team is taking a couple of half days to look at marking period three and the new curriculum/materials. So far we are pleased. There is a geography project where we learn about direction words, map symbols, landforms, natural and human-made resources. We start off identifying and using this information as it relates to the USA. Then we will do the same with another country. I'm looking forward to it. In math we will explore nonstandard measurement and in reading we will continue to focus on informational text.
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December 16, 2011
As we enter the week before winter break we will continue to work on solving
math story problems involving three addends. These may be addition, subtraction or even multiplication problems for those of us who understand that idea. We are finding out that it is imperative to draw each part of the problem out and to cross off information that is not needed within the problem. Then it is okay to assign a number sentence (equation) to our drawing.
Many of us are having difficulty figuring out th...
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