Raz-Kids Daily Reading
Every month, we are inviting parents to UST to read a book to the G1 students. G1A and G1B classes will come together in the shared space to listen to the Mystery Reader read a story.
If you are interested, please click here and sign up. Thank you!
Wednesday, October 31st - ¥100 donation to dress up
Please bring ¥100 to school as a donation. The selected charity will be announced soon!
G1 students will not have P.E. on this day, but we will follow a normal schedule in the morning.
Thursday, November 1st - Tokyo Science Museum
Tokyo Science Museum website: http://www.jsf.or.jp/
1 Parent Chaperone Needed
For this field trip, we ask that one parent from each grade 1 class accompany us. If you are interested in being a chaperone for this field trip, please send me an email letting me know by Wednesday, Oct. 24th. If more than one parent is interested, I will mix the names together and pick one.
Are you ready for the field trip?
Please help your child bring these items to school on the day of the field trip:
- Orange UST shirt (P.E. shirt)
- Regular snack
- Regular lunch
- Water bottle
- Restroom Towel
* Students will bring their backpacks on the field trip. Inside they will have their snack, lunch, water bottle, and restroom towel. We will eat snack when we arrive to the museum, then we will have lunch at the location 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
Field Trip cost per student - ¥400
*This includes admission price for students + highway/parking fees included
Please send your child's field trip money to school in an envelope with his or her name on it by Monday, Oct. 29th.
Thank you!
Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship - How Can We Get Along in School?
During this unit students will:
- learn how to solve problems
- examine why we have rules
- understand how people can work together
To begin this unit, students discussed these questions:
Who is responsible for enforcing the rules?
What are the consequences if these rules are broken?
The class completed a K-W-L chart to discuss and answer the questions. At the end of the unit, we will review what we've learned and complete the chart.
To begin answering the question, "How do we get along in school?" the class listened to a story called The Goats on a Bridge. We read the first part, then stopped and brainstormed what might happen next. The students came up with a lot of different ideas, such as:
The story helped the students discuss how the goats could have solved the problem. I introduced the word cooperation and we asked ourselves, "Did the goats cooperate? How could they cooperate in a way that is fair to both of them? Next, the students played a game called Two on a Task. Each student thought about a picture they wanted to draw and without telling their partner their idea, they had to hold one colored pencil and draw a picture together. They were not allowed to talk. The students told me this was a difficult and frustrating task. The second time they played the game they were allowed to talk. The students discovered that being able to talk, share ideas, and listen to their partner made the task much easier. |
Subtraction Facts to 10
During this chapter, students are practicing these skills:
- Take away to subtract
- Count on to subtract
- Count back to subtract
- Use number bonds to subtract
- Write and solve subtraction sentences
- Tell subtraction stories about pictures
- Solve real-world word problems
- Recognize related addition and subtraction sentences
- Write fact families
- Use fact families to solve real-world problems
- Determine if number sentences involving addition and subtraction are true or false
Math Vocabulary
take away
subtract
minus
subtraction sentence
less than
subtraction story
fact family
This week students learned four strategies to subtract and are using these strategies to begin solving subtraction stories.
Ways to Subtract
- take away
- count on
- count back
- number bonds
Tackling Trouble
During Reading students were introduced to five reading strategy buddies: Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish, Stretchy Snake, Chunky Monkey, and Flippy Dolphin.
When we return from break, our class will meet Skippy Frog, Tryin' Lion, and Helpful Kangaroo.
Narrative Writing - Personal Narrative
When do I need a capital letter?
- the word I
- first word of a sentence - She likes apples.
- specific names (a person's name and title) - Ms. Allison
- special names (places) - Tokyo, Japan
- days of the week - Monday
- months of the year - November
- holidays - Halloween
Have a wonderful and safe Fall Break!
- Ms. Allison