Mrs. You‘s 1st Grade Newsletter
Mandarin Immersion-Week 4,Aug 16-20
Green and Blue Class
math
Model 1 Sums and differences to 10
In this first module of Grade 1, students make significant progress towards fluency with addition and subtraction of numbers to 10 as they are presented with opportunities intended to advance them from counting all to counting on, which leads many students then to decomposing and composing addends and total amounts.
In Kindergarten, students achieved fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 5. This means they can decompose 5 into 4 and 1, 3 and 2, and 5 and 0. They can do this without counting all. They perceive the 3 and 2 embedded within the 5.
Topic A continues the work of developing this ability with all the numbers within 10 in put together situations, with a special focus on the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9, since recognizing how much a number needs to make 10 is part of the Kindergarten standards and easier for most children. Students decompose numbers into two sets, or conceptually subitize, in Lessons 1 and 2, and record their decompositions as number bonds.
T: How many dots do you see?
S: 8.
T: What two parts do you see?
S: I see 5 and 3.
T: Did you need to count all the dots?
S: No! I could see the top row was a full five, so I just said 6, 7, 8.
In Lesson 3, students see and describe 1 more as + 1. They use the structure of the first addend rather than its cardinality, just as the student speaking in the above vignette used the five. The number is a unit to which they can add one, or count on by one, without recounting. All three lessons in Topic A prepare students to solve addition problems by counting on rather than counting all. we are developing math ability with all the numbers within 10 input together situations, with a special focus on the numbers 5, 6 and 7, since recognizing how much a number needs to make 10 is part of the Kindergarten standards and easier for most children. We decompose numbers into two sets, or conceptually subitize, and record their decompositions as number bonds.
Science
Ready to learn and shine
❓ Weekly Essential Question(s)
What can we see in our room?
In Science lessons this week, we carry out an investigation to count how many shapes we can see at various pictures with the lights turned off and compare this to how many we could see with the lights turned on. We find out that it was harder to see certain things when it was dark. We test various materials to determine which ones will best block the light coming in the windows of our classroom. We learn that the materials can block all lights called transparent, the materials can block some lights call translucent and the materials can block all lights called opaque.
Mandarin
Mandarin Matrix NOVICE 1
Book:
N1 U1 01 我们可不可以坐下? Can we sit down?
Synopsis:
It is storytime. As the teacher reads on, more and more students joined in. Towards the end, she asks one of the students to sit in her place and read to everyone.
New Vocabulary:
me我, you你, good好, plural marker for pronouns and a few animate nouns 们, can 可以
Language Comprehension:
Recognize and understand the meaning and usage of the pronouns 我, 你, 我们, 你们 in reading and listening
Recognize and understand the meaning and usage of 好 and 可以 in reading and listening
Recognize a proposition (e.g. 我们坐下,可不可以?)
Understand and recognize basic directional complements in
a sentence (e.g. 你过来, 你来坐下, 小羊在山上, 小虫在土里)
Language Use:
Ask for permission, make a proposition (e.g. 我们坐下, 可不可以?)
Express permission to a proposition (e.g. 你们可以坐下。)
Describe where things are using directional complements:
上, 下, 里
Match the words:你,你们,我,我们to the supporting visuals
Identify the correct directional placement to the
supporting visuals
Write the words 你 and 好 in the correct stroke order
Match the text to the supporting audio
Upcoming
Week 3, Aug 16-20
Math
MODULE 1 Sums and Differences to 10
Topic B: Counting On from Embedded Numbers
Lessons 6–7: Represent put together situations with number bonds. Count on from one embedded number or part to totals of 8 and 9, and generate all expressions for each total.
Lesson 8: Represent all the number pairs of 10 as number bonds from a given scenario, and generate all expressions equal to 10.
Topic C: Addition Word Problems
Lesson 9: Solve add to with result unknown and put together with result unknown math stories by drawing, writing equations, and making statements of the solution.
Lesson 10: Solve put together with result unknown math stories by drawing and using 5-group cards.
Lesson 11: Solve add to with change unknown math stories as a context for counting on by drawing, writing
Science
❓ Weekly Essential Question(s)
What can we see in our room?
📑 Weekly Standard(s)
1.P2U1.1: Plan and carry out investigations demonstrating the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light and predict how objects with similar properties will affect the beam of light.
Mandarin
Book:
Mandarin Matrix Novice 1 level Unit 1 Book 2 上楼梯 Going upstairs
Synopsis:
During a playdate, Dad asks the children to play upstairs.
He asks the children to walk up and down the stairs carefully instead of running. Meanwhile, the sink upstairs overflows. What will the children say about Dad rushing upstairs to stop the running water?
New Vocabulary:
me我, you你, good好, plural marker for pronouns and a few animate nouns 们, can 可以
Language Comprehension:
- Identifyandunderstand我,你,好,们,可,以
Recognize greetings (e.g. 你们好!)
Understand the meaning and usage of affirmative-negative questions (e.g. 好不好?)
Identify and understand the usage of verb+directional complements (e.g. 上去, 下来, 下去)
Understand the meaning and usage of a proposition (e.g. 你们上去,好不好?)
Understand the meaning and usage of the reduplication of adjectives (e.g. 你们好好走下来。)
Language Use:
Ask and answer affirmative-negative questions
Take turns making and answering to propositions using 好 and 可以
Match the words: 左, 右, 上, 下 to the supporting visuals
Match the right phrases to the supporting visuals.
Write the words 我 and 们 in the correct stroke order
Match the text to the supporting audio
Friday Aug 20, Early release
Contact us
Miss. Annie
Yóu Shūqí lǎoshī.
Miss. Annie, Shuqi, You
Email: Shuqi.you@dvusd.org
Website: https://www.dvusd.org/Page/52696
Location: Gavilan Peak classroom 210
Phone: 623-445-7436
Ms. Tsau
Email: lisa.tsau@dvusd.org
Website: https://www.dvusd.org/Page/4570
Location: Gavilan Peak classroom 211
Phone: 623-445-7437