First Grade

March

Reading

Our next unit in Benchmark is unit 7 "Past, Present, and Future"
We will be focusing on: 

• Identifying the main topic and retelling key details of a text

• Using text features to locate information: Captions, glossaries, and time lines

• Describing the connection between two events, ideas, or pieces of information

• Writing the steps on how to do or make something

At home, families can:

• Read with your student every day. Books come home in book bags and students check out new library books weekly.  

• Ask students to tell what a text is mostly about

• Describe how two events or ideas are connected.  How are they alike?

• Ask your students to tell and/or write the steps on how to make or do something

• Review sight words

Math

Unit 6  is “Addition Fact Strategies”
We will be focusing on:

• Using strategies to solve addition facts

  • Doubles (3+3, 2+2),  near doubles (3+4, 2+3), and making 10

• Exploring time to the hour on an analog clock

• Understanding equivalence (2+2=3+1)

At home, families can:

• Ask your student to solve basic addition problems (ex: 7+3=? Or 10+5=?) 

• Provide your student a two digit number and ask them how many tens and ones are in that number? (ex: 58 - 5 tens, 8 ones)

• Continue to practice solving doubles number stories (2+2, 5+5, 8+8, etc.) and finding combinations of ten 

• Ask students comparison questions (ex: Is 78 greater than, less than, or equal to 100?) 

April

Reading

We will be ready for Benchmark  unit 8 "Observing the Sky"
We will be focusing on: 

• Making connections to a story (to themselves, the world, or another text)

• Distinguishing between information in text and pictures

• Describing characters, settings, and major events

• Explaining the difference between stories and informational text

• Comparing and contrasting experiences of characters in stories

• Identifying the central message in a text

• Writing an opinion about a topic related to the sky

At home, families can:

• Read with your student every day. Books come home in book bags and students check out new library books weekly.  

• Ask students to tell what a text is mostly about

• Describe how two events or ideas are connected.  How are they alike?

• Review sight words

Math

Unit 7  is “Subtraction Fact Strategies and Attributes of Shapes”

We will be focusing on:

• Fact Families and related facts

• Counting up and back to subtract

• Finding unknowns in a number sentence (?+1=5, 2+?=10, 6+2=?)

• Attributes of 2-D shapes (How many sides? How many corners?)

• Exploring digital clocks

At home, families can:

• Ask your student to solve basic subtraction problems (7-2=5. 10-1=9, etc.)

• Provide your student a number sentence with a missing number (?+5=9 or 10-?=6)

• Ask your student to point out and name shapes in their environment. How many sides? How many corners? 

• Have your student practice reading the time on a digital clock