In Social Science, we have been mapping skills and have been learning about cardinal/relative directions and how to use them. These skills will have us going on a few treasure hunts before the year is done.
In Writing, we are working on our procedure unit. We have learned about the imperative voice for writing instructions.
Schoology was updated with scores for Reading, Wrting, and Math.
In Writing today, we began the revision process for our persuasive writing.
In Social Science, we began our map study unit.
Thank you, parents, for all of the treats we were able to share with our classmates yesterday. It made for a very exciting afternoon.
Parents, in case you have not noticed yet, please look for Math homework going home just about every day. We took a homework break last night.
We are halfway through our 1st grade year. Our last lesson about ancient civilizations taught us that the Egyptians were similar to the Mesopotamians in that they also a polytheistic society who attributed control of unexplained natural phenomenon to gods. Their gods often took the form of humans with various animal heads like a crocodile or birds. Jumping a few thousands years towards the present, we began our study of ancient cultures of the Americas beginning with the Mayans. We learned that:
We have begun the second part of our Early World Civilizations unit in content knowledge. We are learning about and comparing Egyptian civilation to the Babylonians. We have learned that both civilations relied heavily and were built near great rivers. They each had writing systems for keeping historical records. In the course of our discussion we learned that there are 7 continents and 4 (or 5) oceans.
There is Math homework tonight. Two math reports will be scored and reported to Schoology soon.
Tomorrow (time and circumstance permitting) we will show what we know about opinion/arguement/persuasive writing as we take our writing pretest.
In Science we began a unit on earth science where we examine Earth's relationship to the sun. We learned the term 'perihelion'. And how important the tile of the Earth's axis is in determining our weather patterns.
We have begun our middle-of-the-year Reading battery assessment for mid-year reporting.
A holiday event for the students and their families of Caroldale sponsored by Community Loving and Healthy Start is taking place this Saturday at 22209 Vermont Ave from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free with registration at https://bit.ly/holiday-loving
Technical issues have caused a number of delays in disseminating information.
We have completed revision and editing lessons for our informational pieces. Growth is clearly evident in several students' work.
There is Math homework tonight. If you are a parent wondering your child's homework may be, at least one set was left in the classroom.
In our content knowledge unit, we learned that people in the Mesopotamian region were plytheistic. When their knowledge (scientific) could not help explain phenomenon, it was attributed to gods and goddesses.
The 1st grade team has decided that 1st graders will wear festive bright colors for the winter performance next week.
Our next goal in Learning ABC is level I. We are keeping an eye out for x10 and x15 badges as well. Also, the student with the most skills mastered between now and the end of January in IXL, will receive a prize.
In our content knowledge unit, we learned how records were kept from at least 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia:
