Mrs. Manz's Message: April 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Friday, May 1, 2020

Friday, May 1, 2020

Click here for today's video morning meeting.

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square:

We will be tracking Tad's movements on a 120 chart by coloring in the squares Tad lands on the same color as the calendar square. Today we will color square 24 orange because 20+4= 24!

You can make your own 120 chart or print this one out to follow along with Tad and make your own secret picture, too!

Family Flex Friday

Today is your first student and family flex Friday! You can use today to catch up on any work you missed, try some of the optional writing, science, social studies, art, PE, music, learning center, or chess activities, or do anything else you want!

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Notes

Feedback form

Here is a link to our weekly Family Feedback form. Please fill it out to let me know how this week of learning went for your family.

Small group check-ins today

Today we will have small group check-ins starting at 9:00. Look at the Small Group Check-in document for your child's small group time and zoom link.

Family contact information

Here is a document with the family contact information from our class survey.

Morning meeting

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Thursday, April 30, 2020 4-30-20

Today is the last day of April. It will be a new month tomorrow.

What is the next month? What will the date be tomorrow?

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Today is the last day of April. See the video morning meeting above to learn more about the April calendar.

Learning activities for Thursday

Wellness

Look at the clouds.

Find shapes, animals, and objects

Reading

Read a book or ebook (Raz-klids, Sora) on your Book Club topic.
Stop on each page and write an important fact.

Math

Practice your counting on skills by solving equations. Use the objects from your toolkit to create and solve equations in which the answers are up to 16.
Example: I have 16 coins, I close my eyes and grab a handful and drop them. I got 6 pennies and 8 nickels. 6+8=______

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Notes

Make sure to fill out our optional family information survey, if you want your contact information shared with everyone in our class.
See you at our 9 am morning meeting via zoom!

Morning message

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 4-29-20

Today is Wednesday.

Yesterday I read two poems about tadpoles and frogs. Do you remember the other name for a tadpole? It starts with a p…

What are some other spring animals you have seen?

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Today is the second to last day of April! Here is today's calendar square.

What is this shape? It's not a polygon because it has rounded edges. Is it a circle? No. Is it an oval? No. It's an egg shape! Where can you fold it to make 2 equal parts?

Learning activities for Wednesday

Wellness

Play Salad bowl - Each person in the family writes down a person, place, or thing on a little piece of paper and puts it in a bowl. Then take turns acting out each thing and have people guess (charades).

Reading

Log on to Bookflix (Username: summitst Password: bookflix).
Choose a nonfiction book.
Stop on each page and jot down on a post it note about what that page was mostly about.

Math

Play Bump. (It's easy to draw your own)

Did you know that if you Google "roll a dice" it brings up a virtual dice!

Make sure you are counting up from the larger number to add.

Monday, April 27, 2020

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Morning message

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 4-28-20

Today is Tuesday.

Did you go out in nature yesterday? It was a bit rainy but when you do venture out in the rain you might notice new things.

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square. What do you notice?

This shape has 4 sides and 4 vertices. The top and bottom are longer than the sides.

This shape is a rectangle.

Learning activities for Tuesday

Wellness

Have a Picnic - bring breakfast, lunch, or dinner outside and eat on a blanket (bundle up if it’s snowing!!) :) - Play the game “I’m going to a picnic and I’m bringing…” - Each person takes turns remembering (in order) what everyone is bringing and then adds one thing each turn.

Reading

Log into Scholastic News online (password rmanza).
Listen and read the March issue Make Way For Ducklings
Do comprehension questions on page 4.

Math

Use your home math toolkit and practice solving some addition equations using manipulatives. Try to create and solve at least 20 equations. Remember to check your answer.

Monday, April 27, 2020

Week 5 notes

We will continue to have whole class morning meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:00 am.
I will host small group check-ins on Tuesday and Thursday. These groups will change each week.

Click here to see this week's small group rotations and zoom links.

I have received a number of requests from families wondering how to get the contact information of other kids in our class. I am not allowed to give out contact information without your consent.

If you would like to share your contact information with other families in our class, please fill out this form.

If you do not want to share your contact information do not fill out this form.

Morning message

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Monday, April 27, 2020 4-27-20

Happy Monday first graders!

I missed seeing and talking with you over April break! I hope you had a fun!

What is something fun you did over break?

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is our updated calendar observation chart. What patterns do you notice?

Here is today's calendar square.

This shape has 4 sides and 4 vertices so it is a quadrilateral, but it is sort of shifted to the left. It cannot be folded into equal parts. It does not have symmetry

Learning activities for Monday, April 27

These learning activities can be found in this week's learning packet. It is also available on our distance learning Google Site.

Wellness

Outside Treasure Hunt - Hide 10-20 items outside and have other people look for them.

Reading

Watch the reading strategy video.

Read a book and stop on each page and think about what you read.

Math

Watch this math addition strategy video.

Now collect and build your math toolkit, and solve 10 equations that you create using your math toolkit as was described in the video.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Friday, April 17, 2020

Message

Happy Friday first graders! We will have an afternoon meeting today at 2:00. We will do the "weekend's near" greeting, but it will actually be "vacation's near" since next week is our April break. Think about what your word and movement will be.

Love,
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square.

How many sides and vertices does this shape have? Do you know the name of this shape? Hint: It's not a rhombus because a rhombus has equal sides. On this shape two sides are shorter and 2 are longer.

Learning activities for Friday

Reading

Read (or reread) a few of the books on your topic.

Stop and think about the key details in each book.
WHO or WHAT is this book mostly about.
WHAT is happening?
WHEN or WHERE is this taking place?
WHY is this happening.
WHY is this important.
HOW does this work.

Writing

Jot down the answers to some of the questions above about one of your books. You can do this on paper or in a Google Doc.

Math - Problem Solving Friday - Remember to show your work, and use an equation to prove your answer.

A cook fed 5 adults and 1 child. How many people did the cook feed?
Landon has 6 comic books. Amelia has 7 comic books. How many comic books do they have in all?
If you have 5 apples and your friend takes away 4, how many apples will you be left with?
Griffin is reading a book that has a total of 18 pages. If he has read 7 pages, how many pages does he have left to read?
Make up a word problem of your own, and ask someone in your family to answer it.

Science - Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It

Problem: What Happens when DRY PAPER IN A GLASS IS DUNKED INTO WATER?????
You will need: Paper, glass, dishpan of water
What to do: Wad up a piece of paper and wedge it into the bottom of a drinking glass. Turn the glass upside down and push it into a dishpan of water.
More science fun: Use taller or wider glasses. In which type of glass (taller or wider) does water rise more? Push the glass completely below the surface of the water. Does the paper still remain dry?
The paper will not get wet! How it works: A small amount of water is forced into the mouth of the glass when the glass is pushed below the surface of the water. However, since the air in the glass cannot escape, it presses back against the water until the pressure of the air equals the pressure of the water. The wad of paper wedged into the bottom of the glass is safely out of the reach of the water, so the paper does not get wet

Social Studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.

Next week - April break

Next week is April break.

As always, reading every day for 10-20 minutes is the most important thing you can do. You can read books or online materials from our online reading resource list. Here is the April break homework packet that I usually send. It is optional. It has some reading ideas, some fun spring writing paper, and some math games.

If you are looking for more ideas of things to do:

You can also complete any item from the Distance Learning Packet that you have not completed.
You can do a virtual tour. Even Recycle Rhonda hosts a virtual tour!
Learn a new skill (I'm teaching Millie a new trick and trying to learn to juggle)
Play chess (Mr. Mills has been adding new things to his Summit chess website)

Here is a website for kids with online chess

Play math games

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Morning message

Thursday, April 16, 2020 4-16-20

Good morning first graders!

I hope you are finding lots of books and resources about your nonfiction book club topic! If you need help finding more books let me know and I will see what I can find. Ms. Wright is also helping look for books. Her email is jewright@ewsd.org if you want to contact her.

Love,
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square.

Trace this figure. Cut it out. Can you fold it into equal parts?

This is an interesting one! It can be folded any way into equal parts!

Learning activities for Thursday

Reading

Read (or reread) a few of the books on your topic.
Stop and think about the key details in each book.

WHO or WHAT is this book mostly about.
WHAT is happening?
WHEN or WHERE is this taking place?
WHY is this happening.
WHY is this important.
HOW does this work.

Writing

Add to the nonfiction text feature example you started yesterday or start a new one.

Math - Subtraction Practice Thursday

Please write and solve 8 subtraction equations using 8, 10, 12, or 14 as the bigger number, and 5, 6, 7. 8,or 9 as the smaller number. An example: 12-10=_______
Please solve these equations: 19-10 =______; 29-9=______; 22-10 =______
Please solve these challenge equations: 90-10=______; 50-20=______; Please make 5 other equations like these and solve them.

Science - Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It

Problem: What falls faster?
You will need: Paper, books, coins
What to do: Place a piece of paper on top of a book; make sure that the paper is smaller than the book. Drop both together. What happens? Now drop a piece of paper by itself. What do you notice?. Do a similar experiment with a smaller piece of paper placed on top of a large coin (instead of on a book). What happens?
How it works: The book and coin push aside the air in front of the paper. For this reason, the paper falls at the same (fast) rate as its heavier “helper” (the book or coin). A piece of paper falling by itself cannot as easily overcome air resistance. Consequently, it falls more slowly.
More science fun: Drop different sizes of paper on different weights of books and coins. Which combinations of sizes and weights falls fastest?

Social Studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Morning message

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Happy Wednesday! On Monday, I asked you all to come up with a topic you want to learn more about. We will share these topics today.

Love,
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square.

Wow! How exciting! It's the letter S. We now have three letters that we know will be in our mystery word puzzle. Do you have any ideas what the mystery word will be?

Learning activities for Wednesday

Reading

Watch Mrs. Manz’s video on nonfiction text features. Look at this Nonfiction Text Features chart.

Read (or reread) a few of the books on your topic. Make sure your books are nonfiction. If you have fiction books, put those aside in a “fun to read” pile instead of your “nonfiction book club” pile.
For each book, look closely for nonfiction text features. On your book list from Monday make a note about what text features that book has.

Writing

Choose one of the nonfiction text features. Make your own example of that text feature about your topic.

Math - Addition Practice Wednesday

Please make and solve 8, 2 number addition equations using numbers between 6 and 14. Be sure to challenge yourself! example - 6+13=___)
Please solve these 3 number addition equations. Tip: remember to look for easy number matches to add first!

4+8+6=______
7+1+9=______
7+4+3=_____
Please create 3 more equations to solve yourself. Be sure to challenge yourself!

Solve these equations:

3 +10=_______
40+10=_______
23+10=_______
Make 3 other addition equations using 10 and another number and solve them. Challenge yourself.

Science-Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It

Watch Mr. Neil’s introduction to this activity here Which Falls Faster?

Materials: Notebook paper
What to do: Crumple a piece of notebook paper into a ball. Drop it at the same time as you drop a flat sheet of notebook paper. Which piece of paper takes longer to fall?
How it works: There is more air pressing on the surface of the flat piece of paper than on the surface of the paper ball. The crumpled up ball has less air to push out of the way as it falls than the flat piece of paper does.
More science fun: Do the experiment with different sizes and shapes of paper sheets and paper balls. Which sizes and shapes fall fastest? Which falls slowest?

Social Studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Morning message

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4-14-20

I am so excited for our new Reader's Workshop Unit! I loved hearing from so many of you about what your topic for your book club is. Remember, this is a topic you are going to learn all about. Then, you will design a project to teach others about it.

Love,
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square.

What shape is this?

It's a trapezoid! It has 4 sides and 4 vertices. One set of sides is parallel. Remember, parallel means that they could go on forever without touching. Which set of sides is parallel?

Learning activities for Tuesday

Reading

Read a few of the books on your topic. Think about if each book is “just right” for you. You know a book is just right when you can understand and remember it, you can read or figure out most of the words, and it’s interesting to you. Some of your books might be online and can be read to you (like bookflix)

Writing

Reread your question list about your topic from yesterday.
Add a few more questions about your topic.

I wonder…
I’d like to know...
I'm curious about…

Maybe you read the answer to some of your questions. Make a note of any answers you found.

Math Counting/Place Value Tuesday

Watch Ms. Lines’ math video.

Please gather a group of things that you have enough of to make a “counting collection” of 108. How will you organize your counting, today please try organizing in groups of 10.
Bonus Challenge: Predict what number you would make if you add 10 more objects to your group of 108. Add those 10, and see if your prediction is right!
Then using your collection please make the following numbers: 39 - 53 - 78 - 91

Science Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It.

Activity: Make and explore with a paper fan
Materials: paper, tape
What to do: Fold a sheet of notebook paper into an accordion shape. Pinch together the folds, 1 to 2 inches from one of the ends. Tape the folded end to make a handle. Grasp the handle and wave your hand back and forth. You will feel a cooling breeze on your face!
How it works: Even though you cannot see air, it is just as real as objects that are visible. Air has mass and takes up space, just like visible objects. When the paper fan moves the air, you feel the motion of the air as a breeze on your face.
More science fun: Make fans out of larger and smaller paper. Which size gives the strongest breeze? Is there a limit to the size (smallest or largest) of the fan that you can make?

Social Studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Monday, April 13, 2020

Make sure you sign up for a individual check in with Mrs. Manz on our class sign up sheet. These check ins are part of how we are taking attendance.

Morning message

Monday, April 13, 2020 4-13-20

Happy Monday! Today Ms. Feller will do an activity with us. You will need a marker and a piece of paper.

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here are the calendar squares for the weekend and today.

Trace these shapes. Cut it out. Can you fold it into equal, congruent parts? How many? Does the shape have symmetry?

Learning activities for Monday

Writing

Watch Mrs. Manz’s Nonfiction Book Club video.

Think of a topic you want to learn more about. It could be an animal, a sport, a person, or something else.
Write the topic on the top of a piece of paper.
Write a bunch of questions below the topic that you have about that topic. Try to write 5 or more questions.

Reading

Find some books (online or print) that go with the topic you choose in the writing section.
Make a list of these books. Include the title, author, and how to find it. Remember, when we write book titles each word in the title starts with an upper case letter and we underline the title. For example: A Tadpole Grows Up Pam Zollman Bookflix
Try to find at least 4 books on your topic.
Email your teacher with your topic. Let them know if you are having a hard time finding just right books on your topic.
Here are some online reading resources to look through.

Math - Measuring Monday

Go around your house, and gather 5 things that you can bring to your work area, and measure. Using your ruler or the paper one from the link, 11 inch ruler, measure each of the 5 objects, and then arrange them in order from the smallest on top, to the largest on the bottom.

Science - Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It.

Problem: Make a paper airplane that will fly across the room.
Materials: paper, and any other thing you think might help like a paperclip or rubber band
Improve: Not that you have an airplane that will fly across the room, take it outside and see how far it will fly? Can you improve it even more?

Social Studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Friday, April 10, 2020

Friday, April 10, 2020

Here is our video morning meeting for today! Here is a paper explaining the symmetry activity.

Morning message

Friday, April 10, 2020 4-10-20

Happy Friday! Today we will have a video morning meeting! The weather looks warm, but a little cloudy this weekend. What will you do to move your body this weekend?

Love,

Mrs. Manz

Calendar

Here is today's calendar square:

Woah! What is this shape?

It’s the letter H. It has 12 sides. Can you count them.

Trace this shape. Cut it out. Can you fold it into equal, congruent parts? How many? Does the shape have symmetry?

We now have 2 letters on our calendar. E and H. Remember, we need to use the letters to figure out the blank work in our calendar puzzle.

Here is the calendar chart to look for patterns.

Learning activities for Friday

Reading

Free Read Friday! Read for 20 minutes.

Writing

Publish your book. Make sure you have a title. Color your pictures. You might want to add an “about the author” blurb.

Phonics/ word study

While you are reading, look for igh words (night, sigh) in the books. Make a list and add the igh word each time you find one.

Math - Problem Solving Friday

Today we will solve “word problems”. Please remember to show your work, check by writing an equation, and show an answer.
Problem #1 - Mr. Neil had 6 Oreos. Mrs. Neil gave him 5 more. How many Oreos does Mr. Neil have now?
Problem #2 - Mrs. Manz baked cookies. She made 20 cookies. 12 of them were sugar cookies. The rest were chocolate chip. How many chocolate chip cookies did Mrs. Manz make?
Problem #3 - Miss Lines read 5 books on Wednesday. On Thursday, she read 9 books, How many more books did Miss Lines read on Thursday, than she did on Wednesday?
Write your own word problem!!! Please write your own math word problem, and have someone in your family try and solve it!

Science - Engineering Process - What is the Question or Problem; Imagine a solution; Plan your design; Create your design; Test it; Improve It.

Waves and Boats - Problem: What happens to your boat when a wave hits it? Materials: Your boat from yesterday, some pennies, a pot with water, and a small ball like a tennis ball. What: Put your boat with pennies in the pot of water. Leave it alone until it sits on calm water. Then, drop the ball (don’t throw it!) into the pot from about 4 inches above the water. What happens? Keep dropping the ball from higher spots and seeing what happens. When does the boat sink? Take some pennies out, does that change how high the ball can go before the boat sinks? What else can you try?

Social studies

Each day, notice the weather and fill it in on the weather graph.