First Grade Website - Week at a Glance

Week 7: October 6-10

Reminder-1/2 day Wednesday, October 8-dismissal at 10:50

Phonics: Words with wh at the beginning and ph at the beginning and end of words. High Frequency Words: could, would and should. Review words: they, their, were, talk and walk.

Reading: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. Words to know: character, setting, before, after, first, next, last.

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea. Identifying verbs as action words.

Math: We will finish Unit 1 this week and begin Unit 2. Students will solve story problems within 10. They will begin to understand the meaning of the equal sign and connect story problems to equations. Unit 2 Vocabulary- add to, take away, result unknown, put together, take apart, solve, compare, difference, equal sign, expression, expression, equation, addend, difference.

Social Science/Science: We will continue our Science unit Museum of Leafology. We will be discussing how plants are amazing, parts of a plant and how seeds are dispersed. We will be planting our own plants to identify the six main parts of a plant - seeds, roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruit.

Week 8: September 29-October 3

Reminder-No school on Thursday 10/2

Phonics: Words with ch at the beginning and end of words and digraphs review. High Frequency Words: talk and walk. Review words: she we they, their, were

Reading: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. Words to know: character, setting, before, after, first, next, last

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea. Identifying verbs as action words.

Math: Understanding adding and subtracting within 10 when one of the addends is one or two. We will be using dice and counters as tools for this addition/subtraction practice. We will also introduce various strategies to add and subtract. Some strategies that will be covered will be; counting on/back, counting all objects and using a counting sequence to find sums/differences. We will be looking at using surveys that provide data. Tallies will be used to help understand the data from the surveys. Words to know: survey, data, categories, questions, collections, tally marks, addend, sum and difference.

Social Science/Science: We will continue our Science unit Museum of Leafology. We will be discussing how plants are amazing, parts of a plant and how seeds are dispersed. We will be planting our own plants to identify the six main parts of a plant - seeds, roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruit.

Week 7: September 22-26

Phonics: Words with th at the beginning and end. High Frequency Words: were, they, their. Review words: goes, says, she and he.

Reading: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. Words to know: character, setting, before, after, first, next, last

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea. Identifying nouns as a person, place or thing will also be a focus during writing.

Math: Understanding adding and subtracting within 10 when one of the addends is one or two. We will be using dice and counters as tools for this addition/subtraction practice. We will also introduce various strategies to add and subtract. Some strategies that will be covered will be; counting on/back, counting all objects and using a counting sequence to find sums/differences. Words to know: plus, equals, addend, sum, all together, minus, difference, take away

Social Science/Science: We will continue our Science unit Museum of Leafology. We will be discussing how plants are amazing, parts of a plant and how seeds are dispersed.

Week 6: September 15-19

Phonics: Words with ck and sh. High Frequency Words: goes, says, she and we. review words: your, want, go, no, so

Reading: Answer questions about stories we read and retell stories in sequence. Words to know: character, setting, before, after, first, next, last

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea. Identifying nouns as a person, place or thing will also be a focus during writing.

Math: Understanding adding and subtracting within 10 when one of the addends is one or two. We will be using dice and counters as tools for this addition/subtraction practice. We will also introduce various strategies to add and subtract. Some strategies that will be covered will be; counting on/back, counting all objects and using a counting sequence to find sums/differences. Words to know: plus, equals, addend, sum, all together, minus, difference, take away

Social Science/Science: We will continue our Science unit Museum of Leafology. We will be discussing how plants are amazing, 'sleepy' seeds and parts of a plant.

Week 5: September 8-12

Phonics: Double consonant spelling rule with ll, ss, ff, zz along with -all, -oll and -ull words. High Frequency Words: your, want, go, no, so

Reading: Answer questions about stories we read and retell stories in sequence. Words to know: character, setting, before, after, first, next, last

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea. Identifying nouns as a person, place or thing will also be a focus during writing.

Math: Understanding adding and subtracting within 10 when one of the addends is one or two. We will be using dice and counters as tools for this addition/subtraction practice. We will also introduce various strategies to add and subtract. Some strategies that will be covered will be; counting on/back, counting all objects and using a counting sequence to find sums/differences. Words to know: plus, equals, addend, sum, all together, minus, difference, take away

Social Science/Science: We will discuss Community Helpers and what they do to help in our communities. We will begin our first unit in Science this week. The science unit is called Museum of Leafology. We will be discussing how plants are amazing and what 'sleepy' seeds are.

Week 4: September 1-5

Phonics: Short vowels u and e. Review the high frequency words learned in kindergarten. Words to know: he, be, me, from, look, book, are, was.

Reading: Continue to discuss good reading strategies that we can use to help us when we are reading a story including identifying the characters and setting of a story.

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea.

Math: Understanding adding and subtracting within 10 when one of the addends is one or two. We will be using dice and counters as tools for this addition/subtraction practice. We will also introduce various strategies to add and subtract. Some strategies that will be covered will be; counting on/back, counting all objects and using a counting sequence to find sums/differences. Words to know: plus, equals, addend, sum, all together, minus, difference, take away

Social Science: We will discuss Community Helpers and what they do to help in our communities.

Week 3: August 25-29

Phonics: We will be looking at short o and short u words. we will review the high frequency words learned in kindergarten. Words to know: I, a, go, see, like, can, we, the, play and said.

Reading: Continue to discuss good reading strategies that we can use to help us when we are reading a story including identifying the characters and setting of a story.

Writing: Continue to discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea.

Math: Add and subtract within 10 using different math strategies. Words to know: category, data, sum difference and survey

Social Science: We will finish our first social studies unit on following rules and expectations and why they are important.

Week 2: August 18-22

Phonics: Review the letters of the alphabet including the sounds of each letter.

Reading: Discuss good reading strategies that we can use to help us when we are reading a story. We will also begin putting those reading strategies to work as we begin to read and discuss the characters and setting of a story.

Writing: Discuss what a sentence is and practice writing a sentence with a capital letter, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end. We will also discuss how a sentence can describe a picture or an idea.

Math: Review skills learned in kindergarten including reading and writing numbers, counting to 100, comparing numbers, and 2D shapes.

Social Science: We will begin with our first social studies lesson on following rules and expectations. We will learn and discuss why rules are important and how we can follow our school rules and expectations in different places.

Week 1: August 13th-15th

Welcome to 1st Grade! As the school year begins we will spend the first few days...

Getting to know each other
Learning our daily routine and schedule
Setting and practicing classroom expectations
Exploring how we are going to be the best 1st grade learners we can be

Let our learning journey begin. 1st Graders are AMAZING!