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A Day Year in the Life of a First Grader...
ScheduleClassroom Community
CurriculumSupporting your 1st Grader
(More Info in the folder)
Classroom Community• Morning Meeting and
Afternoon Meeting
• Positive learning community: Take risks, Mistakes are OK
• Children are involved in setting expectations,
self-monitoring behavior, and problem solving.
• Everyone contributes and has responsibilities.
First step in learning.
Play is still a BIG part of Grade 1.
CollaborateCreate/InnovateTake RisksProblem Solve
1st Grade is a BIG year for Reading!
• 3 teachers support literacy
• Individualized and based on on-going assessments
• Work on skills and strategies in isolation and within books.
Reading + Word WorkW
ord W
ork
Comprehension
Fluency and Expression
Whole Word Recognition
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
ReadingComprehension
Fluency and Expression
Whole Word
PhonicsPhonemic
Awareness
Reading...it’s more that just the words!
• Schema/Background Knowledge• Questioning• Inferring• Visualizing• Vocabulary
What can you do to support Reading?
• Take-Home Book Bags• Encourage reading strategies• Share your own “reading life”• Celebrate a variety of interests in
reading• More info in blue section of packet.
Writer’s Workshop
• Familiar Structure:-Mini-Lesson-Independent Writing-Conferring/Small Group-Share
• Writing Partners
Units of StudyNarrative • Small Moments
• Realistic Fiction
Opinion • Writing Reviews
InformationalNon-Fiction
• How-To Books• All About Books
Other • Songs from the Heart: Music and Poetry
Publishing and Celebrating• At the end of each unit
• Preserves the child’s own writing
• Celebrates our growth as writers
We work on other writing skills, too!
• Handwriting• Spelling• Capitalization & Punctuation• Grammar (nouns, verbs...)
What Can You do to Support Writing?
• Admire what your child brings home (Take interest in the CONTENT of their writing.)• Make your child feel like a famous
author!• Acknowledge and encourage risk
taking• Tell Stories• More info on writing on PURPLE page.
Foundational Ideas of Singapore Mathematics:
Focuses on “thinking” vs. “merely doing.” Students learn to persevere in problem solving.
Encourages flexible thinking and perspective taking.
Learning progresses from:
First Grade Math Topics:
Numbers and Operations (Addition and Subtraction to 100)Mental Math Strategies
Money, Calendar, and Telling Time
Geometry: 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs
Measurement: Length and Weight
Getting Ready for Multiplication and Division
What Can You do to Support Math?• Help to instill positive attitudes about math!
• Make math a part of your lives: play games, build, cook...
• Students should be able to do homework INDEPENDENTLY.
• Practice Math Facts (we’ll be providing more guidance on this).
• Try Problem of the Week!
• Attend Math Night on October 18th!
• More details on the YELLOW page in your packet.
1st Grade Science is all about the Earth!
• Practice being a scientist and following scientific process
• Recording in a science journal• Most field trips support science
Units of Study:RocksOceans and IslandsDinosaurs and Fossils
SOCIAL STUDIES• Community Building• Change Makers• Maps and Globes• C.A.R.E• Holiday and Birthday Traditions (pink paper)
Sneak Peek at Homework
HOMEWORK• Start in Oct.• T/W/Th• Primarily Literacy
and Math
Book Bags+Logs• All days of week• Please initial each
day• Feel free to write
comments or notes.
• Initial each day.
• Look for teacher feedback here.
• Main goal of homework: RESPONSIBILITY
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