Thursday, April 9, 2020

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Morning message

Good morning first graders and happy Thursday! I have a video to share with you today about the subtraction strategies we have learned this year. I hope it helps with your math!

Love,
Mrs. Manz

Calendar

What shape is this? How many sides does it have? How many vertices? 

This shape is a trapezoid! Trapezoids have only 1 pair of parallel sides. Remember, parallel means that the lines could go on forever and never touch or cross. Which 2 sides are parallel? 

The top and bottom are parallel. 

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

Learning Activities

• Reading
• Review the “Read Aloud Like an Expert” chart 
• Read for 20 minutes.
• Study the books you read like a writer. What did you notice in the books you read that you might want to incorporate into your writing?
• Writing
• Re-read your book. Do a careful editing check.
• Make sure each sentence starts with an uppercase letter
• Use all lower case letters unless you used the word I or for names
• Make sure each sentence ends with punctuation
• Write for 20 minutes.
• Phonics / Word Study
• While you are reading, look for vowel team words (vowels teams are two vowels in the middle of a word, like the ea in team) in the books. Make a list and add the vowel team word each time you find one.

• Math
• Here is my video reminding you about our subtraction strategies. If you want, you can look at the slide show as well.

• Please write and solve 10 subtraction equations using 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 as the bigger number, and 3, 4, 5, 6,or 7 as the smaller number.  An example: 11-4=_______
• Please solve these equations:   16-6=______; 19-9=______; 18-8=______
• Please solve these challenge equations:  30-20=______; 40-20=______; 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.
• Challenge:  Build a foil boat to see how many pennies it can hold.  Materials:  pieces of aluminum foil about 8 inches long, a pot to hold water, water, a handful of pennies.  What:  build a boat out of 1 piece of foil.  Put it in the water. Will it float?  How many pennies can you put on it before it sinks?  Can you improve your idea, build a new boat, and hold more pennies?  Save your best boat for tomorrow!!!!!

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