Ms. Perlaki's
First Grade Class
Units
Launching the Reading Workshop
Readers use Strategies to Solve Words
"Story Champs" for Understanding Basic Story Structure
Character Study
Readers Learn From Informational Reading
Building a Repertoire of Strategies in Mixed Genre
Sight words are words that students should know by "sight" without having to sound them out. They are an important part of first grade.
Units
Launching the Writing Workshop
Revision
Writing a Sequence of Instructions: How-To Books
Information Books: Personal Expertise
Apprenticeship Writing: Studying Craft
Opinion Writing Letters for Social Action
Write Like a Scientist: Investigation Notebooks
Spelling Pattern Groups
Short Vowels (i.e. "a" in "apple", "e" in "egg")
Digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, qu)
Long vs. Short Vowels (if there is a magic/silent e at the end of a word, it makes a long vowel sound (i.e. "a" in "ape" vs. "a" in "apple"))
Long vs. Short Vowels (both the silent/magic e and vowel teams can create a long vowel sound (i.e. "meet" and "athlete" both have the long "e" sound while "egg" does not))
Other Vowel Patterns (oi/oy, ou/ow, i-e/ie/igh/)
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Building Number Patterns and Relationships
Addition and Subtraction Families
Building Number Sense and Understanding Place Value
Understanding Place Value with Money
Organizing, Representing, and Interpreting Data
Measuring Length and Time
Geometric Shapes and Attributes
Addition with Regrouping
Units
Engineering New Ideas (how light and sound help us communicate)
Survival Skills (how we can help living things survive)
Star Light, Star Bright (how we can use observations to learn about space)
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Our School Family (how citizens get along)
Time Flies When You Are Having Fun (how we can learn from the past)
Our Place in the World (how we impact the earth)
Decisions, Decisions (how we can be responsible consumers)
Photos of work that the kids are proud of and of creations they want to share!
An extensive list of free resources for students to use at home on a computer, tablet, or phone.