January 9-19, 2024 Newsletter

 

First Grade NewsLetter

January 9 - 19, 2024

Language Arts

  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

  • Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

  • Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

  • Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

  • Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Math

  • Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

  • Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

  • Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:

Social Studies

  •  Analyze the influence of significant historical figures and events from the history of the United States

Science

  • Demonstrate an understanding of models (drawings or maps) to describe how water and land are distributed on Earth.

 

High Frequency Words

another       gave     house    over    own    read       water      white

always        began   better    gives   hurt    shall       should    things

Reminders

  • Check book bags daily

  • Read with your child for 30 minutes nightly

  • Charge the computer nightly

  • Study high frequency words