Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are reading parts of nonfiction text and writing nonfiction teaching stories.

Math: Students are learning about measurement and continuing to practice counting using counting on and counting back strategies.

Social Studies: Students are becoming more aware of those that help us at school.

Portuguese PLA: Os alunos estão contando e escrevendo narrativas pessoais. Também estão fazendo reflexões sobre o sistema de escrita a partir de cantigas de roda e parlendas de brincar, como "O sapo não lava o pé", "Lá em cima do piano" e "Corre Cutia".

Portuguese PAL: After learning a very traditional chant in Português, O Sapo não lava o pé, and working on activities about the song, students will learn the song AEIOU by Grupo Triii and we will start working with vowels in Portuguese. Students will do a lot of activities in order to learn vocabulary, compare and contrast the vowel sounds in Portuguese and English.