Ninety-Fourth Day of School

 Today in Writing, we added transitions to each reason supporting our opinion.

Math application problem:

    Corey measures his pencil at 15 cm long. He then sharpens his pencil and measures it again as 4 cm less than before. How long is Corey's pencil now?

Grades for this assignmemnt have been posted to Schoology.

For our unit of content, we added a few facts:

• The brain has 3 main parts:
• the cerebrum, the largest part which process thoughts and memory,
• the cerebelum helps us with balance and movement,
• and the brain stem which controls breathing and heartbeat.
• The teeth are the only part of the skeletal system that we can readily see.

Grades for our most resent reading assessments have also been posted to Schoology.

Ninety-Third Day of School

 In Writing today, we drafted our reasons supporting our opinion.

Ninety-Second Day of School

In Writing today, we talked our reasons for our opinion and then planned (quick-sketched) them for drafting tomorrow.

In our content lesson, we learned about the nervous system:

• The brain is considered the "control center" of the nervous system.
• Our brain is wet and wrinkled and weighs about 3 pounds.
• The brain sends messages using a nerves which run throughout our body.
• The brain control voluntary and involuntary muscle movements.
• Our brain processes a million messages every second. 
• There 86 billion neurons in the brain.

Math application problem: 

    Julia's lollipop is 15 centimeters long. She measure it with 9 red cubes and some blue cubes.     How many blue cubes did she use?

Grades for this assignment have been posted to Schoology.

Ninetieth Day of School

 Today marks the middle of your child's 1st grade year.

In Writing today, we drafted our opinion statement. Most opinion statements are no more than 5-7 words in length.

 

Eighty-Ninth Day of School

 In Math today, we began a new unit on measurement.

In Writing, we revisited our opinion brainstorming lists to add other things we may have an opinion about whether good or bad. We then selected a topic for our paper and stated our opinion about that topic. A digital record was made of those statements.

In our content unit, we learned about the circulatory system.

• The heart, blood, veins, arteries, and capillaries are important components of the circulatory system.
• The heart has 4 chambers and is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
• The heart works harder during physical exertion.
• The heart is an involuntary muscle.

Eighty-Eighth Day of School

 In Writing today, we practiced formulating opinions. First, we had to distinguish between a fact and an opinion. Fact: Mind Craft is my favorite game. Opinion: Mind Craft is the best game.

In Math today, we learned about constructing a table as a strategy. We learned that if we contruct a proper table, there is no need for a statement.

Math application problem:

    Carla, Jose, and Yanni each have 8 cherries.They all get more cherries to put in their                 bowls.Now, Carla has 12 cherries, Jose has 14 cherries, and Yanni has 16 cherries.

    How many cherries did each of them add to their bowl?

Eighty-Seventh Day of School

 Math application problem:

    Micah had 16 toy trucks. He lost 9 of them. Charles had 1 truck. He received 6 more from        his mom. Who now has more trucks, Micah or Charles?

Grades for this assignment have been posted to Schoology. If you notice your child has not scored at least a 3 on any of these spplication problems, it might be a good use of time to review them at home. Your child will be taking a number of types of math exams before the next progress report, an exam which looks very much like the application problem found here in the daily messages, fluency exams, a district online exam (similar to IXL), and an exam with math equations like those seen on the homework assignments.

We have nearly finished administering the middle of the year reading exams.

Eighty-Fifth Day of School

 In Writing today, we constructed arguements for dogs or cats being better pets.

Math application problem:

    There were 16 coats hanging on the rack. Nine children took theirs outside with them. How     many coats were still on the rack?

Tomorrow we will learn about the digestive system.

Eighty-Third Day of School

 Math application problem:

    Julian had 7 markers. His mother gave him 8 more markers. He lost 9 of the markers. How        many markers does Julian now have?

Grades for this assignment have been posted to Schoology.

Today in our unit for content we learned about the muscular system.

• Muscles work together to help us move our body.
• Muscles are connected to bones with tendons.
• Voluntary muscle movements are muscle movements we decide to make.
• Involuntary muscle movements are muscles that move on their own.
• We have more muscles in our body than bones.

Eighty-Second Day of School

For Writing, We began our unit on opinion writing by examining an opinion anchor text called Red is Best. We then generated our own list of "bests" and what category of things our "bests" or "favorites" would belong to. For example:

1. spaghetti                food
2. Mine Craft             game
3. blue                        color

In our unit for content, we learned about the skeletal system.

• Bones are organs which work together to provide structure to the body and protect softer organs.
• Bones are connected by joints.
• Bones are hollow which makes then lighter and stronger and filled with marrow.
• We have approximately 206 bones.

Eighty-First Day of School

 Today we started a unit for content, listening comprehension, and speaking about the human body. Our main concepts of the day:

• The body contains organs.
• Related organs work together in a system to performs functions.
• Systems network. 

Math application problem:

    

    There were 17 soccer balls on the field. The team used 9 of them. How many were not used      by the team.

The scores for this assignment have been posted to Schoology.