1st Grade Newsletter

By 1st Grade Team
First Grade
November 21, 2024

Important Dates & Reminders

  • Book Fair: 12/2-12/6
  • Literacy Night 12/4 5:00-6:30
  • 1st Grade Winter Celebration 12/16 from 2:15-3:15
  • Family Food Market 12/18
  • Winter break: December 23- January 3, 2025. We will return to school on January 6, 2025.

What are we learning?

Language Arts

  • We will be learning, reading, and writing about being a good community member.
  • We will be learning about r blends, s blends, and final consonant blends in phonics
  • We will be learning about noun-verb agreement with singular and plural nouns
  • We will be learning about personal and possessive nouns

Math

  • We will be finishing up our shapes unit where students sorted and classified shapes based off of different attributes.
  • Students have been learning about squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles.
  • We will begin our new unit of counting and numbers where we will skip counting by 10’s, 5’s, and 2’s.
  • We will also be learning about money and counting coins.

Science

  • We will be learning about motion and sound.
  • We will be reviewing plant and animal needs.
  • We will be learning about changes that are happening in winter.

Social Studies

  • The student will classify goods and services and how people are consumers and producers
  •  The student will  explain how individuals make choices to meet their basic needs

Questions to ask your child at home.

  • In what ways do people make choices?
  • How do people get the things they want?
  • What are you thankful for?