1st Grade Newsletter

By 1st Grade Team
First Grade
January 05, 2024

Important Dates & Reminders

  • Please practice shoe tying at home
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday -  January 15 - no school
  • Quarter ends, early release - January 25
  • Teacher work day - January 26 - no school for students

What are we learning?

Language Arts

  • Develop vocabulary by listening to and reading a variety of poems. 
  • Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about what is read. 
  • Identify the theme of poems. 
  • Read and reread familiar stories and poems with fluency, accuracy, and meaningful

Math

  • Revisit counting forward orally by ones to 110, starting at any number between 0 and 110
  • Write the numbers 0 to 110 in and out of order. 
  • Count backward out loud by ones when given any number.
  • Count forward by ones, twos, fives, and tens

Science

  • Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices.
  • Investigate and understand that objects can move in different ways.
  • Investigate and understand that animals, including humans, have basic life needs that allow them to survive.
  • Investigate and understand that there are weather and seasonal changes.

Social Studies

  • Develop map skills
  •  recognizing map symbols including land, water, cities, roads, etc.
  •  use cardinal directions on maps 
  •  Read/create a simple map that include a title, and a  map legend

Questions to ask your child at home.

  • How were you a strong communicator today? 
  • What is one thing you learned in school today?
  • How did you collaborate at school ?