Welcome to First Grade!

March 16-20

Language Arts

Stories: An Ocean of Animals

      "Mice"

"Caterpillars"

      Fire Trucks

Phonics:  contractions

Vocabulary: habitat, shallow, future, predator

Grammar: parts of speech, compound words

Writing: nonfiction writing 

Lightning Words:  friend, how, last, together, with, another, use, something

Math

• Unit 4 - Using 10s and 1s to Organize and Count

 *Lesson 15- Tens and Ones

    Objectives: 

*Students will organize concrete objects by 10s

*Students will count objects by 10s and then count on by 1s

*Students will make connections between concrete objects and visual representations of 10s and 1s

*Students will recognize that in a 2 digit number the digit in the 10s place represents the number of 10s. 

          Vocabulary: 

*digit, place value, row, column 

 *Lesson 16- Numbers to 120

    Objectives: 

*Students will read, write and count on from any number up to 120.

*Students will recognize patterns in the 120 chart that show relationships between numbers. 

*Students will recognize how counting patterns repeat after 100.

*Students will understand that 10 more or 10 less than a number results in a change in the tens digit but the ones digit remains the same.

*Students will mentally identify 10 more or 10 less than any two digit number. 

          Vocabulary: 

*digit, row, column, ones, tens