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On Thursday we celebrated the completion of our personal narratives. We used Ezra Jack Keats as a mentor and worked to write just like him. We included details and descriptive language to tell the reader more about our event. To celebrate our hard work we had a book premiere. Each author walked the red carpet and showed off his/her story. Then a "reporter" interviewed the author to find our more about the story. Here are some pictures from our book premiere!
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Today we learned how to add three numbers. This was a BIG deal for us in first grade. We are working on using the previous math strategies that we have learned to solve these problems.
1. check for a zero 2. check for doubles 3. check for a making 10 5 + 6 + 4 = In this problem we can make 10. 6 + 4 = 10. Then we can add 10 + 5 and solve the problem. 4 + 4 + 3= In this problem we can use what we know about doubles to solve the problem. 4 +4 = 8 and 8 + 3 = 11 Some students are still not comfortable using these first grade strategies. We can use our old strategy of drawing pictures to solve the problem. We can also count on or count back. We will continue to work on this in school! You can help at home too!! Today we started a unit on magnets. We shared what we know about magnets and what we are wondering about magnets. We are excited to learn about magnets and hopefully answer some of our questions!
Today we learned about pronouns. We learned that pronoun can take the place of a noun. We identified lots of different pronouns using the poem below. You can identify the pronouns in the books you read at home!
So I have to admit, after hearing about this strategy the first time I thought, "Why didn't I learn that?!?!" This is an amazing strategy that can be used to solve basic facts all the way up to way more challenging facts. We built the foundation for this strategy by making sure all the first graders know the "best friends" of ten aka the number pairs that make ten. Today we learned that we can find sets of ten in addition problems and use base 10 to solve the problem. Here are some visual examples of how this strategy works. Using a double ten frame (as seen above) we can model the two addends in the addition problem. The next step is to make a set of 10. We usually pick the number that is closest to ten. Here you can see that we made a set of ten and now the problem is 10 + 5. This is much easier for us to solve! Below is another way to think about the problem. This strategy takes time and practice. Not all students will "get it" right away. I will continue to expose the first graders to this strategy throughout the year.
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