Curriculum

Literacy

Building on what they learned in kindergarten, first graders learn more complex letter-sound relationships. They apply these new skills to longer decodable stories and informational texts and in their writing. Reading comprehension and fluency are emphasized. All skills are carefully integrated and taught in multiple modes—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic—to reinforce language learning.

Family Welcome Letter

Family Welcome Letter (Spanish)

Building a Super Reader

Math

Littleton Public Schools has adopted Reveal, a K–5 math program that will help us meet the core standards and make math meaningful, exciting, and accessible to all learners. The Reveal curriculum focuses on developing a deep understanding of math concepts, proficiency with key skills, and the ability to solve new & complex problems. Students in a our classroom talk about math, describe observations, explain methods, and ask questions. They are encouraged to find multiple ways to solve problems and show different ways of thinking. Hands-on activities engage them in exploring, developing, testing, discussing, and applying mathematical concepts.

What Will Students Learn This Year?

Number sense and number patterns

Students will:

• build understanding of the base-ten place value system on which our numbering

system is based;

• learn that ten ones can be grouped to form a new unit called a ten;

• extend their proficiency with counting sequence to 120 so that they can start with any

number to count to 120.

Addition and subtraction

The major focus of students’ math learning is on addition and subtraction. Students will:

• expand on the meanings of addition as adding to and putting together and subtraction

as taking from and taking apart;

• learn a new meaning of addition and subtraction – that of comparison. They

understand that addition or subtraction can be used to represent how many more and

how many fewer/less situations;

• expand on strategies to add and subtract, such as make a ten, decompose one or

both addends and adding by place value, and use addition to subtract.

Measuring lengths

Students will:

• explore ways to determine lengths of objects using everyday objects, such as paper

clips, connecting cubes, and tiles;

• realize that when measuring lengths, they need to align the measuring units end to

end with no gaps or overlaps.

Reasoning about geometric shapes

Students will:

• deepen their understanding of the attributes of two-dimensional figures, such as

squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons;

• distinguish defining attributes, such as number of sides and number of angles, from

non-defining attributes, such as size, color, or orientation.

Science

Littleton Public Schools has adopted twig science as our science curriculum, check it out!

We will learn about patterns in our sky, Animal reporters, Museum of Leafology and  Shadow town.