FIRST GRADE NEWS
Mrs. Oakes and Ms. Archey
FIRST MARKING PERIOD
Language Arts
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Letter review & sound recognition
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Reading strategies: phonics/decoding; question; monitor/clarify; summarize; evaluate; predict/infer
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Comprehension: noting details; fantasy and realism; story structure; sequence of events; compare and contrast; cause and effect
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High-Frequency words: read, write, and recognize
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Grammar: capital and lowercase letters; beginning sentences with capital letters; punctuation; capitalizing names; naming words; action words
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Spelling & Phonics: letters, sounds & write words with m,s,c,t,n,f,p,b,r,h,g,d,l,y,v,j,z as beginning and ending sounds
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Word Families: -at, -an, -it, -ig, -ot, -ox, -et, -en, -ug, -ut
Mathematics
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Read and write numbers to 20
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Recognize count, compare, & order sets through 20
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Draw pictures to solve problems
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Develop & use math vocab relating to addition
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Solve addition problems horizontally & vertically through 8 using + and =, including problems with 0 as an addend
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Understand the Order Property of Addition
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Write number sentences to solve story problems
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Develop and use math vocabulary relating to subtraction concepts
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Model subtraction with parts and wholes in stories and write subtraction sentences
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Solve subtraction problems from 8 or less horizontally and vertically using - and = including problems with 0
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Use models to act out subtraction problems
Science/Technology
Head, Light, & Sound
What is heat?
What can light do?
What is sound?
Motion
How do things move?
How can you change the way things move?
How does gravity make things move?
How do magnets make things move?
S.T.E.M. and J. A. activities
Make "a" to STEM projects
St Francis ROCK to make Density Towers / Creature Teacher to present Animals in Halloween
Upcoming Field Trips: Mishler Theatre to see "Click, Clack, Moo!"
