Thursday, April 16, 2020

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.