1st Grade Newsletter

February 9, 2021

By 1st Grade Team
1st Grade
February 09, 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 color.
  • Listen to some poems from this MyOn book Pucks, Clubs, and Baseball Gloves. Write a poem about your favorite sport.
  • Create an illustration and write a poem about it.

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

  • Make a song that teaches you how to add or subtract numbers.
  • Be a teacher! Using legos or a drawing record yourself teaching others how to add or subtract.

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

  • Think of an animal. Create or draw a picture of their shelter (where they live).
  • Share your All About Animal Book with someone that lives with you or over the phone.

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

  • Think about leaders in your community. Write a list of traits that make them a leader.

Important Dates and Reminders

  • February 15th - Presidents Day (no school)

Positivity Project

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!