We completed all seminars for the first unit today. Thank you parents for your support. I've never completed an entire class before in the first unit. We are almost complete with our reading battery. I will post statistics tomorrow. If you would like to know your child's individual score you can come see me or wait for conferences. Fluency scores will be posted in the classroom.
We had our fifth dance lesson with Ms. Marrin. Today we learned some break dancing as well as its origins.
In past years the concept presented today in math has stumped many 1st graders. This publisher presented the material a bit differently and made it easier to teach and hopefully learn. With the notion that subtraction finds differences we compared different sized collections today. We discovered that if you subtract the smaller collection from the larger, you will find the difference. The question for the difference is presented in two different ways: how many less, and how many more. This can sound confusing. The answer however remains the same for both questions (thankfully). The homework is the math sheet on comparing.
If you received an unsatisfactory notice, please sign and detach the bottom portion and return it to school so that I know you have seen it.
If you would like a visual record of some of your child's classroom activities, send along a flash drive and I will try to record such things as oral reports. It just has never seemed right to me that I'm the only adult that gets to see all the things your students are doing. It would be helpful if there was some place to write your child's name on the outside of the drive or better yet, attach it to a lanyard with your child's name. You can also bring the flash drive along with you to parent conferences. I am at least hopeful I can get this to work.
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