1st Grade Newsletter

May 11, 2021

By 1st Grade Team
1st Grade
May 11, 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.

Independent Reading/Writing Project/Choice Unit

  • Reading goals and standards depend on the unit of choice.*
  • Writing goals and standards depend on the unit of choice.*
  • 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.
  • Please contact your child’s teacher to know which unit is being taught.

Home/School Connection

  • Make a slide on google about an animal you have researched. Include what you have learned and what you already knew!
  • Create a picture book about someone in your family. Ask questions to learn more about them!

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

  • Create a comic or a story of a child learning how to add or subtract.
  • Help your friend! Your friend thinks you cannot add up 3 numbers to get to 10. Explain how you CAN add 3 numbers that will equal 10.

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

  • Go outside in the morning to feel the temperature. Do you feel cold or need a jacket? Then, go outside after lunch. How has the temperature changed? Has it gotten warmer or cooler the longer the sun has been up.

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

  • Draw a picture of yourself doing something in a responsible way.
  • Make a list of words you think of when you hear the word responsible.

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

  • Go outside in the morning to feel the temperature. Do you feel cold or need a jacket? Then, go outside after lunch. How has the temperature changed? Has it gotten warmer or cooler the longer the sun has been up.

Positivity Project

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!