Grade 1
JANUARY 2023
ELA (English Language Arts): Consonant blends, digraph blends, blending, reading and segmenting up to 4 sounds, R-controlled words, suffixes, contraction not, sounds oo, u
Writing: Genre for Trimester 2 - informational
Math: Place value, comparison, addition and subtraction to 40
Social Studies: Maps, US symbols
Science: Light/sound
Family Connections: Weekly Spelling homework lists will be posted, along with Wonders activities, Freckle and nightly reading
Room 15: The 100th Day of School is on Monday, February 6th. Please bring in a bag of 100 small items that are the same to count. They will not be handled by anyone else.
Special Activities: Black History- stories and writing pieces
NOVEMBER 2022
ELA (English Language Arts): Glued sounds, digraphs, capitals and periods, plural nouns, sequence, verbs, contractions, inflectional endings, writing paragraphs
Math: Adding and subtracting within 10, place value, measurement, compare distances
Social Studies: US symbols, maps
Science: Light/Sound Communication
Family Connections: Please check Google Classroom for the spelling word list and use the TicTacToe board.
Monthly Themes: Holidays- Hanukkah and Christmas stories; MLK Day- story and writing piece
Special Activities: Room 15- activities with our adopted calf, Dorito, from Emma Acres Farm
Please sign the Spelling TicTacToe board and return on Fridays. The list and board are also posted on Google Classroom.
Special Activities: Room 17- winter-themed mindfulness activities
Have a wonderful holiday season!
OCTOBER 2022
ELA (English Language Arts): We will be studying bonus letters, glued sounds, trick words, punctuation, narrative story form and writing opinion text and realistic text. In writing, we are working on beginning sentences with capital letters, using spaces between words, and ending with punctuation. We will be working on our writing piece for Trimester 1.
Math: We will study subtraction word problems, related facts, and decomposing numbers.
Social Studies: Elections, citizenship
Science: Sky patterns
Family Connections: Please check Google classroom notices or the folder daily. Please update your child’s extra change of clothes to something warmer. They can keep it in a bag in their cubbies.
Spelling Homework: Please sign and return the TicTacToe board each Friday. We have our Spelling word check-in on Fridays. The list and board are sent home on Mondays. They are also posted on Google Classroom.
Special Activities: Fall Activities
SEPTEMBER 2022
ELA (English Language Arts):-Wonders: Initial, medial, final sounds, blending, 3-sound short vowel words, segmenting/spelling 3-sound short vowel words, story retell in detail and sequence, high frequency words, spelling words, alphabetical order, phoneme isolation, plural nouns, deletions, inflectional endings, short a, short o, word order
Writing: Informational (Science-Seasons)
Math: Eureka Module 1: commutative property of addition, equal sign, addition within 10, subtraction as unknown addend and subtraction word problems
Social Studies: Voting, elections, citizenship
Science: Patterns in the sky, seasonal patterns
Family Connections: Please read together nightly. Also, please put a change of clothes in your child's backpack. We have a lot of spills! Please note that we are a peanut and tree-nut free classroom. Please do not send these items for our morning snack or lunch. We request a healthy choice for snack. We are doing an excellent job! First grade rocks!
Special Activities: Nature Walk/Leaf Writing
Upcoming in October: Spelling Homework