We continue to stay busy busy in Room 16!
We have officially started our new writing unit - informational/teaching books! We have learned that we are ALL experts on something. Many of us are experts on animals, games, or sports! We have also learned HOW to write a teaching book:
It is important we say it across our fingers because we need to know AT LEAST five things about our topic to be considered an expert. If we can only think of two or three things about our topic we have to think of a NEW topic.
In Math we have begun SUBTRACTION! We know that a subtraction sentence is minuend minus subtrahend equals difference. We also know that the minuend is ALWAYS going to be the biggest number. Just like addition, we will be learning various strategies to help us solve subtraction sentences. Today we learned how to draw a picture and CROSS OUT to help us find the difference. We will also discover the relationship between addition and subtraction (HINT: fact families!)
In your child's Flyer Binder you will find an XTRAMATH flyer. Xtramath is an online fact fluency program. I encourage you to have your first grader use xtramath to practice addition facts. Although we have learned various strategies to help us solve addition sentences, the BEST strategy is to JUST KNOW IT! Xtramath will help with just knowing it!
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our adopt a family program! We have A TON of items in our boxes!
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