The links below are optional but highly recommended activities to keep your child engaged and learning throughout the year. Please let me know if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them or find the answer for you! I am ALWAYS here to help you!
Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas. Check it out!
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This is an amazing resource where you can watch and read stories. There are also activities for you to do that go along with the stories! Each week has 5 days full of activities. You can do them in any order you choose but try to experience them all!
THESE ARE THE TOPICS/OBJECTIVES TYPICALLY COVERED IN FIRST GRADE
Watt's So Bright?: Discovering Light Properties
NYS Standard Topic: Waves: Light and Sound
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Make observations (firsthand or from media) to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
It's Just a Phase: Patterns in the Sky
NYS Standard Topic: Space Systems: Patterns and Cycles
Use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
Lend Me Your Hears: Discovering Sound Properties
NYS Standard Topic: Waves, Light, and Sound
Students will explore sounds and vibrations and relate simple terms like loud, soft, high and low to the concepts of volume and pitch.
Students will make a model of a wave and learn that sound travels through air, liquid and solids.
Students will investigate echoes and learn how animals use echoes to communicate and survive.
Exploring Organisms
NYS Standard Topic: Structure, Function, Information Processing
Carolina Biological Building Blocks of Science Kit
Introduces students to the importance of structure and function in plants and animals and the ties that exist between parents and their offspring.
Students actively investigate the difference between living and nonliving things.
Students begin to observe patterns that exists between parents and their offspring
Students begin to observe the pattern that offspring look similar, but not identical, to their parents and begin to understand that variations exist between the parents and offspring of all members of the plant and animal kingdoms.
Students design a solution to a real-life problem that exists for human parents in the care of their offspring.