Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Most students can memorize the addition and subtraction math fact.
However, knowing how they got the answer and being able to apply that knowledge to harder math problems helps them in the upper grades and beyond.
Here are some strategies that we teach in class:

Literacy Night

Mrs. Cavett Counseling Lessons

Mrs. Cavettt comes to our class throughout the year to talk about how special we are. Her goals are for students to recognize they are special and diversity is to be celebrated.

Literacy Night

First Grade Literacy Night
                               Monday, Sept. 17th

          6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

 First Grade students are developing their enthusiasm for reading. As they continue to grow as readers, we are inviting all 18-19 first grade families to be a part of a special night about reading at home with your child. At Literacy Night, we will discuss just-right books, reading strategies, and introduce the take-home library. You might even see some super reading heroes in action!

Poet visit- Joe Mohr

Poet and Author Joe Mohr visited our classroom today.  He is a Clayton parent, published author and is in a band.  http://www.joemohr.com/

To see the video of Joe's Song. Superfluous

Mealworms

Mealworm

In Science we are learning about insects. The first insect we are studying is the Mealworm. Mealworms are the larva of beetles. Mealworms go through 4 life stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult beetle. The eat meal such as wheat meal, oat meal, or rye meal. The get their water through plants like potatoes and carrots. Mealworms burrow in their food and do not like light. Each student will get a habitat on his or her desk and is in charge of taking care of the mealworm. Usually, many children will even name their mealworms!

We have the first pupa.

The mealworm sheds its skin to reveal it is a pupa now.

Number Bonds

Number bonds is a way for students  to visualize numbers and compose/decompose numbers. 

Being able to visualize numbers is the key, and giving the students a graphic like the number bound is one way to help them do this.

Another way for students to think about numbers is to play “Bears in a Cave” 
"If I have 9 bears (cubes or beans)  and 6 are outside the cup (cave) how many went in to the cup/cave? "(3)

Students can access gregtangmath.com for great math games. 

These are the games that are perfect for first grade students right now.