1st Grade

Unit 1: How we express ourselves

September 8th - October 16th

Give an oral presentation that includes the following information:

Students will identify a cultural tradition that differs from their own.
Students will learn about other cultures through questioning and inquiry.
Students will share their own culture and traditions and they are going to be able to respect others.
Students will know how culture helps us understand the world we live in.

Voice: Student can participate and collaborate, and ask questions about the learning process
Choice: Students will choose a topic, ask questions, and manage projects. Students will choose strategies to work in problems.
Ownership: Students can reflect on their learning, analyze the content, and connect it to the real world.

Form: Everything has a form with recognizable features that can be observed, identified, described, and categorized.
- What important decisions have you made in the past?
- What are responsibilities?
- What kind of work do people do?
Function: Everything has a purpose, a role, or a way of behaving that can be investigated.
- How have people adapted to living here?
- Why do we name things?
- How do we celebrate people?
Connection: We live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.
- What are the similarities and differences between languages?
- How does our experiences allow us to connect with stories?
- How can you work as a group to achieve a common goal?

Math: Place value, quantity, compare,
Reading: selecting the grade-appropriate text, expressing yourself verbally, working in a team, making connections to the text.
Social Studies: good citizenship, community helpers, rules and laws, country traditions, family traditions now and past.
Science: Observe, classify, compare, size, weight