Reading Resources

First Grade Class Reading Padlet:

To add to our Padlet, click on the pink circle with the + sign. In the box that appears, you can add the title, author, and your name. You can add an image by clicking on the magnifying glass at the bottom of the box too! Happy Reading!

If you are having trouble posting to Padlet, email Julia your info and photo and she will post it. Thank you!

Social Studies Resources

Communities Scholastic Online Deep Dive (4/2-4/3)

In this longer project, you will explore communities and how important they are in our lives. We are very aware of that these days as we try to create a digital community with you all. Once you follow the link to the Scholastic Online Remote Learning Resources, you will 1) Watch a read-aloud, 2) Read a book yourself, 3) Watch a video about the meaning of "home" in different communities, and 4) Design your own community!

Writing Resources

Fundations Resources

Optional Extensions/Resources

Reader's Theater (Collaboration with Drama and Humanities)

We are highlighting how Humanities, Engineering, and Drama fit together through a Reader's Theater challenge. Reader's Theater invites children to read familiar books - often fairy tales - and then to put on their own performance of the tale. Choose one Reader's Theater activity from the options below and put on a show at your house! Bear in mind that, as you know, plays often have:

-Characters with costumes

-A set

-A script

-A program

Steps to putting on Reader's Theater at home:

1. Choose a story from the options below and watch it read-aloud or read it at home (if you have access to the book). Then, retell the story using props, characters, and a set.

2. Be creative as you design and build finger puppets or create costumes using items you have at home so that you and other family members can be characters.

3. Create at least one "set" that provides a backdrop for your play. Consider what you know from engineering about using light and shadow to create a scene.

4. Write a brief script of the dialogue for your characters. Practice using quotation marks to show dialogue and practice acting it out. Use emotions and inflection in your voice to show the effects of punctuation (!?.). Try to use phrases from the actual book as well.

5. Create a poster or program to advertise your show and invite your family to a performance. Consider that most programs include a date, time, slogan, and list of characters/actors.

If you are able, have an adult film or take photos of your play in action and share this with your teachers. You can email aradeva@mttam.org or jesser@mttam.org and then we will share with other teachers.