April 20-24

Welcome, first grade families!

We're excited that all four classrooms will be using this website to find lessons and other helpful links.

Below please find our plan for the coming week of April 20-24. We hope you were able to pick up your new learning packet at Buckingham on Friday or over the weekend. If you still need one, please let us know.

In addition to the lessons below, all classes will have whole-class WebEx meetings on Monday and Friday mornings! We hope to see you there! Schedule and links here:


Also, don't forget to keep your bodies moving! Click here for Mr. Douglass' P.E. lessons for this week!


This week in reading, we're focusing on the "or" sound made by all three spellings on the "corn card" below!

Click on the card to hear a video all about the sound "or"! :)

Monday, 4/20: Day 1

Priority Learning Task for Today:

Focus: phonics, sight words & vocabulary.

Learning Video: See Mrs. Brown Below!

Complete: page 236 in Day 1 of the packet.

POST: a picture or a recording of yourself reading and submit it to your teacher on either Class Dojo or Seesaw.

Loom _ Free Screen & Video Recording Software.mp4

Tuesday, 4/21: Day 2

Priority Learning Task for Today:

Focus: “Make 10/Break 10” with Penguins.

Learning Video: See Mrs. Stenkamp below!

Complete: page 40 in Day 2 of the packet

POST: a picture of completed page 40.

Extra: Tuesday's Listening Game

19 April, 2020 - Loom Recording.mp4

Wednesday, 4/22: Day 3

Priority Learning Task for Today:

Focus: Reading/Word Work

Learning Video: Read Along with Mrs. Hughes below!

Complete: Workbook page 246

POST: A photo of your work!

Extra: Templates

InteractiveReadAloud4.20.mp4

Thursday, 4/23: Day 4

Priority Learning Task for Today:

Focus: Informational Writing, Part 1

Learning Video: See Mrs. Larraneta's video below!

Complete: Think of a topic, write your title, write your hook.

POST: what your topic is.

Extra: Thursday's Listening Game

Informational Writing - Part 1.mp4

Friday, 4/24: Day 5

Priority Learning Task for Today:

Focus: Informational Writing, Part 2

Learning Video: See Mrs. Larraneta's video below!

Complete: Your Informational Writing

POST: Your finished story (either today or next week when you finish)

Part 2_ Informational Writing.mp4

Friday Extra: First graders, here is our Reader Writer Workshop story for this week! It's a good one! Click here to listen to Ms. Hughes read it to you.

Also, below is another link where you can watch a video of this inventor's inventions! Be thinking: what problem is he solving with his inventions? You can be an inventor too! What problem would you like to solve?