1st Grade Newsletter
February 9, 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
- Humility: February 14-20
- Cheering Others’ success: February 21-27
- Check out some family resources here! Password: P2