1st Grade

Welcome to our First Grade Page! Below you will find information about our classroom and all of the learning that takes place! 

For our classroom rules, we learn how to become a leader through our Leader in Me program: We teach the children about the 8 Habits of Success, which are: 1. be proactive, 2. begin with the end in mind, 3.  put first things first, 4. think win-win, 5. seek first to understand, then be understood, 6. synergize, 7. sharpen the saw, 8. find your voice. We celebrate this learning through earning leadership tickets, having leaders of the week, and having monthly assemblies! 

For Social Studies, first grade focuses on communities and maps. We learn how to be a good citizen, how to get along with others, and why maps are important. 

For EL (whole group reading) and science, we use an integrated curriculum! Our EL program teaches kids about our science standards through researching, reading, writing, and creating. We learn about tools and how they help us do a job, about the sky (star, moon, and sun patterns), and we learn about animal survival (birds in particular) and their life cycles. 

For PL reading groups, we group the children based on exactly what skills they need  to work on. We use a Reading Simplified approach, where the students re-read, engage in word work, and do a new guided reading everyday. Reading Simplified includes a pathway with certain sound patterns. The sound patterns that your child will be working on in their group depends on their individual needs and skills to help your child become the best reader they can be! 

For Math, we use our IL curriculum and Better Thinking Classroom strategies. Our units include whole group lessons and digital centers,  which helps us differentiate based on your child’s needs for math. Our units include fluency with adding and subtracting 1-20, adding and subtracting 1-99 (using tens and ones), story problems, shapes, fractions, and telling time. Our Better Thinking classroom strategies have children work in partners at a whiteboard, so they are doing their own thinking and taking ownership of their learning in a way that’s best for them!