One Hundred-Second Day of School

 In Writing, we have begun our second persuasive writing piece. We will be writing a persuasive letter. Our first task was to make a list of adults who could be recipients of a letter. Our next task was to decide upon an issue we cared about and then decide who would be the audience for our arguement.

Ninety-Sixth Day of School

 In Writing today, we added closing statement to our drafts which completes all of the necessary elements of opinion writing.

In Math today we solved by constructing a table. Math application problem:

    Larry asked his friends whether dogs or cats are smarter. Nine of his friends think dogs are        smarter and 6 think cats are smarter. Make a table to show Larry's data collection. How            many friends did he ask?

Unsatisfactory notices have been turned in and will be sent home likely next week. These are sent to notify parents that is might be possible that your child could be receiving a 1 or 2 in a particular subject.

Ninety-Fifth Day of School

 In Writing Today, we drafted our openings.

Math application problem:

    I have 2 crayons. Each crayon is 9 centimeters cubes long. I also have a paintbrush. The            paintbrush is the same length as 2 crayons. How many centimeter cubes long is the                    paintbrush?

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.