Welcome to First Grade!
March: What is Grade 1 studying?
ELA:
Module 3: Birds’ Amazing Bodies
Module Summary: In this module, students build their literacy skills as they engage in an in-depth study of birds’ bodies. Students will learn that animals have physical features that help them survive; animals behave in ways that help them survive. In Unit1, as students build background knowledge about birds through the texts, they participate in a cycle of reading, talking, and representing through scientific drawing, writing, role-play, music, and movement.
Unit Tasks:
- Students write and create scientific drawings of birds.
- Students will answer questions using evidence from an informational text.
- Students will begin to research different physical characteristics of birds.
Eureka Math:
Module 5: Identifying, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes
Students will…
- classify shapes based on defining attributes
- find and name two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes
- create composite shapes
- name and count parts of a whole
- partition shapes
- construct a clock and recognize halves
First Grade, what to expect?
Homework is a crucial part of your child's active learning process and essential to their academic progress. Please make sure that all homework is completed daily.
Remember to read with your child every night for at least 20 minutes and talk with your child about the story.
- Math homework will be given almost every night on Zearn to match the daily lesson in school.
- Read every night.
- Respond to books using examples from the text.