Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: First graders are beginning the final units for Reader’s and Writer’s workshops. Students will focus on character traits and characteristics during reading. During writing students will begin developing their own characters they will use in a series of stories. These are two very exciting units! As students are beginning their series units we will be collecting cereal boxes to make a box set. Our hope is it will look a little like the picture below.

Math: In our upcoming unit, students will learn about 2D and 3D shapes in our Geometry unit.

Social Studies: Students learned about groups they belonged to and the focus is on families and learning about the family members.

Portuguese PLA:  Nas aulas de Português também trabalharemos com a escrita de uma série de livros com o mesmo personagem. Nesta unidade, exploraremos as características de um personagem e leremos os livros da série Bibi, de Alejandro Rosas, para termos ideias para escrever os nossos livros.

Portuguese PAL: Students are excited writing pages for their Não Confunda book. They will continue working on it and they will also read more books in order to find and learn more rhymes and apply them to their books.