Curriculum Update: What's going on in First Grade

Literacy: In the upcoming writing unit students will be writing realistic fiction using characters in a series of books. In Reader’s Workshop students will investigating characters.

Math: In math the students will be increasing their fact power through function machines, name-collection boxes, fact families, and fact triangles. They will be introduced to centimeters, reviewing telling time and adding coins.

Social Studies: Students have finished up the unit on School Community. Now we will begin our last social studies unit on Family. They will be learning about their own family and other students families along with similarities and differences.

Portuguese PLA: Os alunos estão no processo de finalização, revisão e edição de seus livros de rimas divertidas. Em breve, vocês poderão ver o resultado. Depois, iniciaremos uma unidade de leitura e escrita de histórias de um personagem em uma série de livros.

Portuguese PAL: Students will be working on their book of rhymes, “Não Confunda”. They will be creating new and fun rhymes. We will also sing Easter songs and read books about Easter.