First Grade

Grade Level News-Winter Semester

During our second trimester, we will be focusing on long vowel words using the magic e rule.  Students will also work on vowel teams (“When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking and the second one is silent.”) and diphthongs (“There are two vowels together that don’t make the first letter’s sound and don’t make the second letter’s sound, but make a completely new sound.”).    We will be working on cause and effect, generalization, summarizing, noting details and predictions.  The children will be learning about contractions, adding ending to verbs, using I or Me in sentences, plurals, and compound words.

This trimester in writing the children will focus on writing about their experience from the Kellogg House.  The children will describe items in one of the rooms using word choice.  Students will write facts about Abraham Lincoln and make a leprechaun poem.

In Social Studies, the students will complete a unit on Long Ago and Today. Students will compare how life is different from today.  The unit will include how schools are different from long ago, how the communities change, and how transportation has changed.  Students will go to the Kellogg House.  The children will dress up like “long ago.”  We will make our own butter.  We will learn how hard it is to wash clothes on a washboard and how much strength it takes to use a wringer to wring out the water.  Students will make hornbooks at school, cup and ball, as well ask make candles like they used to long ago.

In math, the children will learn about tens and ones.  The children will add one digit numbers to two digit numbers, add 10s with more 10s, and add one digit numbers.  The children will use strategies such as making tens and counting on.  Students will also complete a unit on graphing.  Then we will work on telling time to the hour and half hour.

In Science, students will learn about Air and Weather.  Students will complete four investigations including: exploring air, observing weather, wind explorations and looking for change.  Students will learn about many tools meteorologists use like a weather vane and anemometer.

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