1st Grade Newsletter
January 26, 2021
Language Arts
What are we learning?
Poetry
- Respond to a variety of poems through movement, performance, or participation in order to discover their personal interests and tastes in poetry.
- Through multiple readings, readers explain their personal interpretation.
- Determine whether they agree with the ideas in the text.
- Poets use tools (rhythm, repetition, line-breaks) to express feelings and experiences.
- Use multiple sources of information in order to solve, monitor, self-correct, and confirm.
- Use known words and word parts to read new words.
Home/School Connection
- Write a poem about your favorite food.
- Read a poem that does not have any pictures. Visualize what that poem would look like. Draw a picture of the picture you created in your head. Add details and color.
Math
What are we learning?
Addition and Subtraction Part 2
- Create and solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction within 10.
- Recognize and describe with fluency part whole relationships for numbers up to 10.
- Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 10.
- Demonstrate an understanding of equality through the use of the equal symbol.
Home/School Connection
- Pick up 2 non-face playing cards and add the numbers together as quickly as possible.
- Make a picture showing an adding story. Use color and put your answer on the back. Make as many as you would like.
Science
What are we learning?
Living Things
- Animals need adequate air, food, water, shelter, and space (habitat)
- Animals, including humans, have many different physical characteristics
- Plants and animals can be classified according to a variety of characteristics
- Plants need nutrients, air, water, light, and a place to grow
- Plants have parts with specific functions
- Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans
Home/School Connection
- Choose an animal. Write down and draw a picture for the 5 things they need to survive.
- Create a timeline for a day in the life of your animal. Be sure to label all the important parts.
Social Studies
What are we learning?
Being an American: Courage
- Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, by:
- Focusing on fair play, good sportsmanship, helping others, treating others with respect
- Recognizing the purpose of rules and practicing self-control
- Describe and make connections to the work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Home/School Connection
- Read a story about an important leader from the past or present. Make a list of reasons why they are a good leader.
Important Dates and Reminders
- February 15th - Presidents Day (no school)
Positivity Project
- Integrity: January 31-February 6
- Love: February 7-13
- Check out some family resources here! Password: P2