One Hundred Twenty-Second Day of School

The important pieces of the emergency at-home study packets are ready for pick-up for the parents whose children are absent today. Students attending school today will be taking their packets home with them. If you find yourself unable to get a packet before 3:00 today, study questions and information will be left on this blog which will be important for future assessments.

One Hundred Twenty-Third Day of School

In Writing, we drafted our arguments for our opinions which is writing the sentences for the 2 or 3 reasons for our opinions.

In Science/Engineering, when useed some common household items to show how to propel a mock zipline-type craft using air pressure. Later, time permitting, we will engineer a craft to hold a payload using the same zipline and air pressure setup to further answer the question: what can air do?

We have been asked by administration to work with our grade level to produce a home-based learning resource package in the event that officials decide it is in the best interest of the community to close the school in light of the current health situation. We are pushing to have the packets ready for the children to take home tommorrow. The packet is for you and your child to keep at home and use at such a time that the children are unable to attend class or the school is temporarily closed. In addition, this blog will be maintained with some notes on suggestions for study as well as lessons to keep the children's writing process going.

One Hundred Twenty-Second Day of School

In Writing, we planned our reasons for our opinion. At least 2 reasons are suggested. The open box on the left of the template will hold the plan for our reasons and can be divided as needed.

In Social Science, we became familiar with cardinal or relative directions and the compass rose on a map (tested).

Open House has been cancelled for tomorrow night.

One Hundred Twenty-First Day of School

In Writing today, we expressed a simple opinion about a favorite place. In 1st grade terms, a simple opinion likely incorporates the word best, although it could just as easily contain the word worst.
For example: Veteran's park is the best park. In subsequent lessons, we will be learning how to develop an arguement to support our opinion. Please find in your child's paperwork, the template we use for opinion writing sent home today to follow along with our unit.

Math Test

Of 18 students taking the test, 11 students passed with an adjusted score of 10 or better. The high score was 19 achieved by 3 students.

Math Test

Of 19 students taking the test, 9 students passed with an adjusted
Score of 14 or better. One student achieved a perfect score.

One Hundred Fifteenth Day of School

In Writing, we have looked at opinion anchor texts and started examining their structure. Yesterday we began brainstorming by making a list of places we've been which may inspire some opinion. Later, on those places will need to be labeled or rather categorized in order to facilitate an opinion statement. For example:

• Veteran's Park
• Disneyland
• Movie Theater

• Veteran's Park-park
• Disneyland-amusement park
• Movie Theater-place/activity

In this way, an opinion may easily be stated as: The movie theater is my favorite place to visit with my family; or, Disneyland is my favorite amusement park.

It has been a pleasure so far to meet with all of the parents so far for parent conferences. Do not worry if you will miss Open House next week as we will not be displaying projects like in years past due to the early scheduling of the event this year.

For Math, make sure to review with your child the skills they missed on the Math test this week as we will take the chapter test on Friday. Tests will be returned tomorrow. Some students struggled with ten more and ten less and some had difficulty with the less than and greater than symbols.