Curriculum Update: Whats Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are continuing to bring characters to life in both reading and writing. During reading, this entails reading with lots of fluency and expression. In writing, this includes adding actions and speech to their characters. If you have not done so already, please send in a cereal box for your child to use to hold their series books.

Math: Students continue to work on the understanding of place value up to one hundred. They are exploring the idea that fractional parts of a whole must be equal and will identify shapes as divided into halves, thirds, and fourths.

Social Studies: Students are finishing learning about family traditions and beginning to learn how things change overtime with a specific focus on the vocabulary of past, present, and future.

Portuguese PLA: Os alunos continuam escrevendo suas aventuras em série, enquanto trabalham com os elementos da narrativa. Depois de criar um personagem e descrevê-lo com detalhes, estão fazendo o mesmo para o lugar onde cada história acontece. Além disso, criam problemas que os personagens vão enfrentar e desenvolvem soluções criativas para eles.

Portuguese PAL: Students in PAL continue working with the letters of the alphabet in Portuguese. Next week, we will start “Diário de Leitura”. We will read a book in class and each day, a student will take the book home and draw their favorite part. On the following day, they will share their work with the class and another student will take the book home.