1st Grade Newsletter
April 27, 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.
Positivity Project
- April 25th - May 1st: Purpose
- May 2nd - 8th: Leadership
- Check out some family resources here! Password: P2
May 6th: ABC Countdown begins - You will receive information from your student’s teacher about our ABC countdown this year through email. We cannot wait to celebrate your 1st grader’s accomplishments!