Thursday, May 20th
Grade 1 Information
Grade 1's first Science Fair task was due on Friday, May 21st.
This week students needed to:
- Select one science project (from the G1 list)
- Write the question
- Explain why they chose the project
- Explain what they think is going to happen (hypothesis)
- Start to gather materials
Task 2 - Due Friday, May 28th
The next Science Fair task for grade 1 is due next Friday. Students will need to complete Task 2's activity page (sent home on Friday, May 14 in your child's homework folder and posted on Seesaw). Please help your child list the materials they're using for their project and write at least 5 sentences to explain step-by-step what they'll be doing (procedure).
After preparing their materials and thinking about the procedure, students are ready to do their project. Please help your child take lots of videos and photos that they will be able to include in their final video presentation.
Thank you again for all your help at home!
Science readers build up a base of knowledge on a topic by reading deeply about the topic.
This week students continued reading about their animal to help them complete their animal report.
Our class learned that nonfiction readers think about their book in parts by identifying the topic or main idea of a section (e.g. The whole book is about elephants. This section is about what elephants eat.). We imagined someone saying, "Is this section REALLY about that? Prove it!" They worked together to complete a main topic and key detail graphic organizer to practice supporting their ideas with evidence from the text.
Report Writing
Report Writing - When you write a report, you share factual information. You share what you have learned about a topic.
This week students completed their pre-writing page for their animal report, writing facts they've learned about what their animal looks like, what their animal eats, and where their animal lives. The class also learned how to take information from a gathering grid (pre-writing page) and write their ideas in complete sentences for their first draft.
Students will work on their drafts next week.
Length and Weight
To end our Length and Weight math chapter, students practiced measuring weight using different objects (e.g. paper clips and connecting cubes).
- counting to 40
- counting on
- place value (tens, ones)
- comparing numbers (compare the tens, compare the ones)
- ordering numbers (least to greatest, greatest to least)
- number patterns
What do families need and want?
This week students were introduced to a new social studies question to help us learn about needs and wants. Students drew pictures of things that families buy, then shared their work with the class. We organized their ideas into four groups: food, clothing, shelter, other. Our class learned that some things we need to have (needs) and other things we don't need, but would like to have (wants).
- Ms. Allison