Kenneth D. Taylor - Grade 1 - Ms. Moore

Hello Parents and Guardians, Whew! June is flying by. It is hard to believe that the year is wrapping up so quickly. We have been really busy over the past few weeks. Here are some of the things we have been working on: Math In math we have been working on comparing numbers using the terms greater than, less than or equal to. We have also been using the signs <, > or =. While learning about the mathematical signs, we talked about thinking of them as an alligators mouth.  Therefore, the sign should open towards the bigger number because it wants more food! We also did a visual enactment of this concept, as a student in our class happened to be wearing a dinosaur shirt. If you look in the picture below he is getting ready to "eat" the larger number of students.    We have  been exploring representing numbers using base ten materials (tens and ones). Science/Literacy We discussed changes that occur on a seasonal basis and wrote about some...

Dear parents and guardians, I am back in full force, hopefully for good this time! Feeling much better and healing up! The students have been very resilient over the past 2 weeks, working diligently even on days where I was absent. Way to go grade ones! Just a reminder to please send back all home reading and library books if you have not done so already. We will not be doing any more book exchanges or sending home any new home reading books this year. The Raz-Kids accounts remain active so this may be a good tool to use to keep your kids reading at home :). This week we have continued to work hard on our writing during journals and letters to home. The expectations for editing continue to rise with students being expected to notice errors in capitalization, punctuation, and spelling of sight words. They should also be checking to see if they have used their blends and digraphs and if there are any spots where they should be adding some descriptive language. We have learned a T...