Week of April 23-27

Sorry for the delay in the blogging. I am finally able to access my blog again. Here are some activities to help enrich your child's learning at home!

Language Arts:

*read daily for 10-15 minutes (Required)

*If you haven’t already, start a personal journal for your child to write in everyday. 

*Write a letter to a friend or family member using all the correct parts of a letter (date in the upper right corner, greeting followed by a comma, body, and salutation including a comma and their name at the end). It would be really fun if they could find someone to write back and forth with (grandparents, cousins, etc.).  

*Practice spelling words

   Ideas: Prepares a paper with the spelling words written according the key pad of a telephone. For example, c-a-t would be 2-2-8 (C is on the 2 button, A is on the 2 button, and t is on the 8 button of a telephone key pad). Students will look at a telephone key pad to figure out the spelling word. They will write the spelling word on the paper the teacher has prepared. Or you can have your child tell you the “phone number” of each spelling word.

    Write a word on the sidewalk with a wet sponge or paintbrush. Aim a small fan at it to speed drying. The children write the words as many times as they can CORRECTLY AND NEATLY before the word "disappears".

Math:

*give your child a group of 10 numbers from 0-150. Have them order them from least to greatest or vice versa.

*choose a number from 100-150. Have them color the number in the hundreds place red, the tens place blue, and the ones place orange.

*Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s, to 150.

*Practice writing numbers from 100-150. I noticed a lot of students are struggling with this!

*Choose a number from 0-100 and have them write the number 4 different ways. They should know how to do this!

Science

 

*have your child write a list of all the things your family could do to help the Earth.

*have your child explore your front/back yard looking for differnt types of soil. They can then draw it and describe it.

Week of March 5-9

Hello!

Can you believe we only have 5 days until spring break??? This year has FLOWN by!

Math homework this week:  Unit 6: 17, 18, 19, 24, 27

A few dates to think about:

NO TUTORING THIS WEEK!

Wednesday 3/7- Math Benchmark Assessment for Cluster #4
Thursday 3/8- Open house... please attend to find out what your child has been doing at school!
Friday 3/9- K-2 Round Up at 2:10
3/9-3/18 - SPRING BREAK!

We will be finishing up research projects this week, so I will not be sending out supplemental homework. Also, we will not be doing Guided Reading this week because I will be pulling individuals to edit their research papers. This week will mostly be review and catching up as we prepare for the break!

Here's to 5 more great days!

-Ms. Corley

Week of Feb 20-24

Homework suggestions for week of February 20th:

    

Language Arts:

*read daily for 10-15 minutes (Required)

*If you haven’t already, start a personal journal for your child to write in everyday. This can include experiences, things they learned at school that day, fiction stories...anything as long as they're writing!!

*Practice spelling words:

-past, blast, fast, shame, name, game, of, or, let, how

-nickname, fasten, hour, country, water

*Idea: Let your child make their own flashcards to study with!

Math:

*Unit 6- 1,4,5 Unit 9- 19,20

   New way to report completion of homework!  Please make sure you are signing your child's blue folder homework sheet when they complete the homework!

*we are starting our time unit this week. Have students practice telling time. By the end of our unit, they need to know how to tell time on the hour and half hour.

*They can also practice putting times in order. Example: Joey, you have soccer at 6:00, piano at 3:30, and homework time at 7:00. Which one is the earliest? Latest?

Science:

*reseach an ocean animal and write a non-fiction book about it.

*make a food chain!

*Make a picture of an ocean animal using their surroundings as camoflauge.

Week of Feb. 6 - 10

Homework suggestions for week of February 6:

    

Language Arts:

*read daily for 10-15 minutes (Required)

*If you haven’t already, start a personal journal for your child to write in everyday. This can include experiences, things they learned at school that day, fiction stories...anything as long as they're writing!!

*Practice spelling words

   Idea: make a word search or crossword at www.puzzlemaker.com

Math:

*Unit 5: 14, 15, 19, 22, 26-27

   New way to report completion of homework!  Please make sure you are signing your child's blue folder homework sheet when they complete the homework!

*Find different items in your home to measure the perimeter (measurement around the outside of the item) and area (measurement when covering the entire item).  Remember we are using nonstandard units in 1st grade.  Select your measuring tools based on the object.  For example, if you are measuring your kitchen table use pieces of paper or if your measuring a sticky note use cheerios.

Science:

*We are starting a month long study of the ocean!  Get ready to have your ear talked off.  :)  Your child will probably want to soak up as much information that they can over the next few weeks. 

-Check out some non-fiction books about ocean animals in the library, then write some facts about that animal

-Draw a diagram of the ocean zones (sunlight, twilight, dark, abyss) and have your child draw some animals that live in those zones

Week of 1/30/12 - 2/3/12

Homework for this week:

LANGUAGE ARTS: 

*READ DAILY FOR 10-15 MINUTES (REQUIRED)

Optional:

*WRITE A STORY

    DAY 1-CREATE A CIRCLE MAP OF IDEAS

      DAY 2-WRITE THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY

      DAY 3-WRITE THE MIDDLE

      DAY 4-WRITE THE END

      DAY 5-ADD ILLUSTRATIONS

 

*PRACTICE SPELLING WORDS 

Spelling Words: sell, fell, shell, chest, west, best, up, so, by, be, contest, smelly, dime, freedom, layers

   IDEA: WRITE SPELLING WORDS in a sentence!

 

*THIS WEEK OUR CLASS WILL START OUR STUDY OF POETRY.  CHECK OUT THIS FUN POETRY WEBSITE:  WWW.POETRY4KIDS.COM

* Practice writing some poetry of your own!

MATH:

*UNIT 5, PAGES  7, 9, 11, 12, 13, (REQUIRED)

   Please make sure to sign your child's folder!
 

Optional Math HW:

*Choose a non-standard unit to measure with, and measure each person in your house! Then Compare! measure again with something else!

 

*FIND OUT THE AVERAGE LENGTH OR HEIGHT OF THEIR FAVORITE WILD ANIMAL (GIRAFFE, ELEPHANT, SEAL, ETC...) THEN CUT A PIECE OF YARN/STRING THAT LONG.  LET YOUR CHILD UNWIND THE YARN TO SEE HOW BIG THE ANIMAL REALLY IS.  IS THERE ANYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE THE SAME LENGTH OR HEIGHT?

*PICK SEVERAL NON-STANDARD UNITS OF MEASUREMENTS (PAPER CLIPS, STRAWS, CRAFT STICKS, ETC...) FOR YOUR CHILD TO USE TO MEASURE.  PICK AN OBJECT TO MEASURE WITH EACH OF THE NON-STANDARD UNITS OF MEASUREMENTS.  

DO YOU GET THE SAME ANSWER EACH TIME?  

WHY DO YOU THINK IT IS DIFFERENT?

SCIENCE:

*write a story about your favorite ocean animal!

 

*Draw a picture labeling all the zones of the ocean!

 

* View this fun ocean website with lots of activities! Click here!

 

Week of 1/23/12

Homework for this week:

LANGUAGE ARTS: 

*READ DAILY FOR 10-15 MINUTES (REQUIRED)

Optional:

*WRITE A STORY

    DAY 1-CREATE A CIRCLE MAP OF IDEAS

      DAY 2-WRITE THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY

      DAY 3-WRITE THE MIDDLE

      DAY 4-WRITE THE END

      DAY 5-ADD ILLUSTRATIONS

 

*PRACTICE SPELLING WORDS 

   IDEA: WRITE SPELLING WORDS ON AN INDEX CARD AND CUT UP TO MAKE A PUZZLE.  PRACTICE WORDS BY PUTTING THE PUZZLES BACK TOGETHER.

*THIS WEEK OUR CLASS WILL START OUR STUDY OF POETRY.  CHECK OUT THIS FUN POETRY WEBSITE:  WWW.POETRY4KIDS.COM

MATH:

*UNIT 3, PAGES 5, 7, 9, 13, 18 (REQUIRED)

   NEW WAY TO REPORT COMPLETION OF HOMEWORK!  SIMPLY sign homework sheet in your child's blue folder!

 

Optional Math HW:

*CUT A LENGTH OF YARN OR STRING AND GIVE TO YOUR CHILD.  CHALLENGE YOUR CHILD TO FIND 5 ITEMS THAT ARE EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF THE STRING, 5 ITEMS THAT ARE SHORTER AND 5 ITEMS THAT ARE LONGER.

*FIND OUT THE AVERAGE LENGTH OR HEIGHT OF THEIR FAVORITE WILD ANIMAL (GIRAFFE, ELEPHANT, SEAL, ETC...) THEN CUT A PIECE OF YARN/STRING THAT LONG.  LET YOUR CHILD UNWIND THE YARN TO SEE HOW BIG THE ANIMAL REALLY IS.  IS THERE ANYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE THE SAME LENGTH OR HEIGHT?

*PICK SEVERAL NON-STANDARD UNITS OF MEASUREMENTS (PAPER CLIPS, STRAWS, CRAFT STICKS, ETC...) FOR YOUR CHILD TO USE TO MEASURE.  PICK AN OBJECT TO MEASURE WITH EACH OF THE NON-STANDARD UNITS OF MEASUREMENTS.  

DO YOU GET THE SAME ANSWER EACH TIME?  

WHY DO YOU THINK IT IS DIFFERENT?

SCIENCE:

*TAKE A PRODUCT WALK AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.  LIST ALL OF THE PRODUCTS YOU SEE THAT ARE MADE FROM ROCK, SOIL OR WATER.

*YUMMY ACTIVITY TO DO JUST FOR FUN!!

RECIPE FOR DIRT CUPS

1 pkg (3.9 oz) chocolate instant pudding (To represent soil)

2 cups cold milk (To represent water that will turn the soil into mud)

15 oreo cookies, finely crushed (To represent rocks)

10 worm shaped fruit snacks (To just add some fun when eating)

Beat pudding mix and milk in large bowl with whisk for 2 minutes.  Let stand for 5 minutes then mix in 1/2 cup cookie crumbs.

Spoon into 10 (6 to 7 oz) paper or plastic cups and top with remaining cookie crumbs.

Refrigerate 1 hour.  Top with worms before serving.

Welcome back!

That two weeks went by fast right?!?!


I can't believe we are already halfway through with the school year! I am happy to be back, and one of my New Years Resolutions is to be better about posting on our blog :) Sorry I let it slide a little bit last semester!


Here is the math homework for 1/2/12 - 1/6/12:
Unit 3, pages 2, 20, 22, 41, 50