First Grade News

March and April 2008

 

Calendar

 

March 3^rd – PTA Star Reader program begins

Week of March 3^rd – Read Across America with guest readers in the classrooms

March 12^th SEE Science Center Presentation

March 13^th – 2^nd trimester ends for Primary grades

March 14^th – No School Teacher workshop

March 26^th- Picture Day –Spring Portraits

March 27^th – Progress reports will be sent home.

 

April 8^th – Early release 12:30

April 11^th –Mother - Son Dance

Week of April 22^nd – Family Lunch at CA

Proposed date for Grade One:

 Tuesday, April 22^nd at 11:25-11:55

You are welcome to come and eat lunch with your child.

 

Spirit Week will take place from April 14^th to April 18^th. 

·         Monday  - Chester Academy Day (wear CA spirit wear or red     and white)

·          Tuesday - Twin Day (dress up just like a friend)

·          Wednesday - Black & White Day

·          Thursday - 70’s Day

·           Friday - Sports Day – in honor of your favorite team

 

April 28^th  through May 2^nd- Spring Break

 

May 6^th – Field Trip – Capital Center for the Arts

Concord, NH to see the play “Max and Ruby” 10 a.m.

 

March and April Curriculum

 

Math

 

Chapter seven/ skills include:

Numbers to 19; Counting by 10’s to 100; Hundred chart; Counting with groups of tens and leftovers; estimating with groups of ten; use date from a graph;

Skip counting-patterns on the hundred chart; Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s aloud and on the hundred chart; numbers before, between, and after; odd and even numbers;

Ordinal numbers through twentieth;

Daily spiral review of skills, problem solving, and on-going assessment

 

 

Chapter eight/ skills include:

  Numbers made with tens; tens and ones; expanded form of two digit numbers; ways to make numbers exchanging a ten for ten ones; problem solving; 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less; algebra- comparing numbers, greater than, less than, and equal to; number line estimation- numbers to 100; ordering three numbers; hundreds

Daily spiral review of skills, problem solving, and

on-going assessment

 

 

Beginning Chapter Nine – Money

Skills include:

Nickel and Penny, Dime, Counting Dimes and Nickels, Problem solving – use data from a table, Quarter, Counting sets of coins, Half dollar and dollar, Problem solving strategy – try, check, and revise

 

 

Chapter Ten - Measurement and Probability

Skills include:

Estimating, measuring, and comparing weight, pounds, grams and kilograms, measuring temperature, choosing a measurement tool, probability – determining certain or impossible, and determining more likely or less likely

 

 

 

 

 

Language Arts

Unit 4 Scott Foresman Reading Street

• Phonemic awareness
• Segmenting and blending sounds in words
• High Frequency words
• Phonics: Long vowels: ai, ay, ea, oa, ow, ie, igh,

          ew, ue, ei and suffixes: ly, ful

• Grammar: introduce adjectives, possessives, compound words, synonyms, homophones, antonyms
• Writing: continued lessons on handwriting;
• Writing: writing using adjectives, writing a list, descriptive writing, journal writing
• Reading decodable readers and leveled text
• Small guided reading groups daily
• Weekly assessment for oral reading fluency
• Weekly spelling tests

 

 

Language Arts - April

 

Unit 5 Scott Foresman Reading Street

 

• Phonemic awareness
• Segmenting and blending sounds in words
• High Frequency words
• Phonics: dipthongs: oi, oy and suffixes: -er, -or
• Grammar: introduce pronouns
• Writing: continued lessons on handwriting;
• Writing: writing using pronouns, writing notes, responding to literature, journal writing
• Reading decodable readers and leveled text
• Small guided reading groups daily
• Comprehension: stating the main idea of a passage or story and summarizing the story
• Weekly assessment for oral reading fluency
• Weekly spelling tests

 

 

Social Studies

Jobs/ Occupations

Maps/Globes

 

Science

Simple Machines

Spring seasonal changes