LANGUAGE ARTS LEARNERS!
PROGRAMS: TREASURES READING & NYS ELA LISTENING STRAND
Watch your reading soar this year...
We will develop these first grade skills:
- Phonics -Reading and Spelling Strategies
- High frequency sight words
- Reading Fluency and Expression
- Expand our reading, writing and speaking vocabularies
- Comprehension Skills - literal text meaning and beginning inferencing skills
- Literature listening Skills and Discussion- Literary Elements and Literary Comparisons will be explored
- Grammar- verbs and verb tense usage, nouns, pronouns, proper nouns, punctuation, contractions, adverbs, adjectives, compound words,
- Writing Workshop- We will explore Narrative, Persuasive/Opinion and Expository Writing Styles
www.engageny.org/resource/grade-1-english-language-arts-listening-and-learning-strand
FIRST GRADE MATH MATTERS!
We will build on what we have learned in Kindergarten as well as new topics and math strategies...
- Addition and Subtraction- single and double digit to 100
- Number Bonds
- Ten Frames
- Counting on; Counting back
- Word Problems
- Base Ten/Place value
- Comparing Number Values
- Ordinal Numbers
- Linear Measurement, Time, Calendar
- Geometric Shapes- 2D & 3D
greatminds.net/support/parents
SOCIAL STUDIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS!
TOOLS: SCHOLASTIC NEWS
- All about "me and my family"
- "Me on the map" and Geography
- Holidays- Seasonal and National
- Wants and Needs- Economy and Money
- Global Citizenship- How we impact the world and Earth
FIRST GRADE SCIENTISTS!
This year we will be exploring the following topics in science...
- Human Body Systems
- Magnetism
- Liquids, solids and Gasses
- History of the Earth
- Earth's Habitats, Plant Life & Animal Life
- Insects
DW SPRING 2017 SCIENCE FAIR:
I encourage everyone to participate in this year's DW Science Fair & Invention Convention.
As we go through our science units this year you will surely begin to think of some exciting Science Fair Projects that would compliment our many units of study.