Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students have been working hard on producing their very own series books! In reading students are learning to compare and contrast books they read.

Math: Students continue to work on place value up to one hundred. They will be adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers. Students will work on fractional parts of a whole.

Social Studies: Students are finishing up the unit on "Family" and understanding how families change over time from past to present.

Science: Students will begin a unit on States of Matter. Students will learn about the properties of solids and liquids.

Portuguese PLA: Estamos iniciando a última unidade do ano: um projeto de pesquisa sobre animais brasileiros ameaçados de extinção. Nesta unidade, trabalharemos habilidades de leitura para que os alunos possam "ler para saber mais sobre um assunto" enquanto localizam palavras-chave e informações específicas em textos informativos.

Portuguese PAL: 1st grade PAL students will start studying and researching about animals. They will learn information about size, weight, habitat, what they eat and how many babies they have.