1st Grade Newsletter
January 12, 2021
Language Arts
What are we learning?
Learning About Nonfiction
- Use photographs, illustrations, and text to build their understanding and teach others about a topic.
- Use multiple sources of information in order to solve, monitor, self-correct, and confirm.
- Use known words and word parts to solve new words.
- Notice a range of punctuation and dialogue to reflect meaning through phrasing.
Home/School Connection
- Read a story. Draw a picture of a character in the story.
- Read a book. Write down words you do not know. Discuss these words with your family.
- Try to guess the ingredients in your dinner each night.
Math
What are we learning?
Counting and Number Part 2
- Count forward orally by ones to 110, starting at any number between 0 and 110.
- Write the numerals 0 to 110 in sequence and out-of-sequence.
- Count backward orally by ones when given any number between 1 and 30.
- Count forward orally by ones, twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects to 110.
- Group a collection of up to 110 objects into tens and ones and write the corresponding numeral to develop an understanding of place value.
- Given up to 110 objects, compare two numbers between 0 and 110 represented pictorially or with concrete objects, using the words greater than, less than or equal to.
**Students will learn about Money during asynchronous instruction with provided digital resources**
Home/School Connection
- Count the change you have in a piggy bank or draw a picture of a piggy bank with coins to count.
- Think of a common game (ex. Go fish, memory, bingo, etc.) Create a math fact game.
- Make place value riddles and solve them. Example: This number has 4 hundreds, 5 tens, and less ones than tens. What number could it be?
- Write your own story problems and solve them. Example: Bob found 12 shells. Then he found 5 more shells. How many does he have now?
Science
What are we learning?
Objects may vibrate and produce sound
Home/School Connection
- Listen to your first graders favorite song. See how many different sounds there are.
- Find something from nature to make sounds with.
- Use 1 item to make 3 different sounds.
Social Studies
What are we learning?
The First Virginians: Jamestown
- Explain the significance of the Jamestown settlement.
- Understand the perspectives of influential people and their effects on Virginia history:
- Powhatan
- Pocahontas
- Christopher Newport
Home/School Connection
- Make a nonfiction book about the Powhatan or Jamestown.
- Create a poster about Pocahontas with 3 facts about her.
Important Dates and Reminders
- January 18th - Martin Luther King Jr Day (no school)
- January 20th - Inauguration Day (no school)
- January 22nd - End of Quarter (2 hour early release)
- January 25th - Teacher Work Day (no school)
Positivity Project
- January 10th - 16th: Prudence
- January 17th - 23rd: Perseverance
- Check out some family resources here! Password: P2