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1st Grade at Burroughs Community School
1st Grade at Burroughs Community School
First Grade is a year of exceptional growth for your student! They will develop their foundational reading skills, critical thinking skills and foundational mathematical number sense skills. We will explore our community and learn to ask questions about our surroundings. We will develop our social-emotional skills and learn that we can do difficult, challenging tasks! Check out our end of year goals that will guide my planning and instruction for literacy and mathematics.
First Grade is a year of exceptional growth for your student! They will develop their foundational reading skills, critical thinking skills and foundational mathematical number sense skills. We will explore our community and learn to ask questions about our surroundings. We will develop our social-emotional skills and learn that we can do difficult, challenging tasks! Check out our end of year goals that will guide my planning and instruction for literacy and mathematics.
Math: End of Year Goals
Math: End of Year Goals
Numbers, Operations and Algebra
Students will be able to count, compare, and represent numbers up to 120, with an emphasis on groups of ten's and one's.
Students will use a variety of models and strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems in real world and mathematical contexts.
Students will use number sentences to represent and solve mathematical problems
Students will create real world situations corresponding to number sentences
Students will recognize and create patterns and learn rules to describe patterns.
Geometry
Students will describe the characteristics of basic shapes
Students will use basic shapes to compose and decompose other objects in various contexts.
Students will use basic concepts of measurement in real world and mathematical situations involving length, time and money.
Literacy: End of Year Goals
Literacy: End of Year Goals
Literature and Comprehension:
Students will be able to ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Students will be able to retell stories, describe characters and setting using key vocabulary.
Students will be able to explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.
Foundational Skills:
Students will demonstrate and understanding spoken words, syllables and sounds (this is called "Phonological Awareness"
Students will know all letter names and one-to-one letter-sound correspondences for all consonants and vowels -- both long and short sounds.
Students will know the spelling-sound correspondences and how to properly decode consonant digraphs, initial and final consonant blends, and vowel digraphs.
Students will learn how to decode one and two syllable words and read these words fluently in a passage.
Students will recognize and read irregular words in context, often called "high frequency words".
Students will use these all these foundational skills to become accurate and fluent readers who comprehend what they read!
Hello! My name is Susan Buchholz. I have been teaching in Minneapolis for many years. I joined the Burroughs staff in 2020 and have loved getting to know the wonderful community. I earned my BS from UW-Eau Claire and my MS from Minnesota State,University -Mankato. I love working with the younger students with their natural curiosity, enthusiasm and love for learning. My goal is to nurture all of these things and the other characteristics that make your child so special! I also strongly believe in the partnership between families, students and teachers.
My husband Joe and I live in Bloomington. We have two kids-Caroline, who is at the University of MN working on her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, and John, who graduated from Iowa State University and has his first real job in Civil Engineering. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, going for walks, reading, seeing music and going to our cabin.
The best way to contact me is through email: Susan.Buchholz@mpls.k12.mn.us
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