1st Grade
First Grade Enrichment
READING/WRITING: First Semester we have been focusing on:
Deductive Thinking - using clues to determine what belongs and what doesn't belong
Logic Elimination Puzzles
Brainstorming and inventing through divergent thinking using the P.E.T.S. program (Primary Education Thinking Skills or PETS™ is a systematized enrichment and diagnostic thinking skills program. Lessons are presented in convergent analysis, divergent synthesis, visual/spatial thinking, and evaluation, suitable for grades K-3. The program aligns to the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy)
MATH: First Semester we have been focusing on:
Level 4 activities based on the 1st grade standards (Comparing numbers through place value games; applying place value to different real-life scenarios; problem-solving with adding and subtracting; number sense puzzles).
Algebraic thinking with symbols and pictures.