1st Grade Newsletter
April 13, 2021
Language Arts
What are we learning?
Learning About Print through Research and Writing
- Ask questions about a line of interest.
- Use close observation to learn new information.
- Collaborate and discuss their observations and questions.
- Decide what message to send in the information piece.
- Take words apart to support reading multisyllabic words for meaning.
- Demonstrate appropriate rate, phrasing, intonation, and pausing to inform how reading sounds.
- Monitor and self-correct while reading.
- Take words apart efficiently and flexibly to support spelling and reading.
- Integrate appropriate rate, phrasing, intonation, pausing, and stress when reading orally.
Home/School Connection
- Think about a topic that interests your student. Have them check out different resources online or in books to learn more about that topic.
Math
What are we learning?
- 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
- Get 10 pennies. Shake them in a cup and spill them on the table. Count how many are heads and how many are tails. Then write a number sentence to go with those numbers.
Science
What are we learning?
- Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating data
- Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanation
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Investigate and understand that:
- The sun is the source of energy and light that warms the land, air, and water
- The sun’s relative position in the morning is east and in the late afternoon is west
- Identification of natural resources
- There are factors that affect air and water quality
- Recycling, reusing, and reducing consumption of natural resources helps to conserve them
- Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans
- There are relationships between daily and seasonal changes
Home/School Connection
- Talk about how recycling is good for the environment. See if you can create something old into something new.
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, by working hard in school.
- Understand that the people of Virginia make contributions to their communities.
Home/School Connection
Discuss how your student can show responsibility at home.
Positivity Project
- April 11th - 17th: Fairness
- April 18th - 24th: Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
- Check out some family resources here! Password: P2