First Grade

 

Dear First Grade Families,

Welcome to June! I can't believe we are so close to the end of the school year. We still have a lot of fun activities in first grade. We have the band concert, parties, and of course Field Day. We will be exploring simple machines and creating a Rube Goldberg machine. Our class will participate in a book club for Mercy Watson Fights Crime.

Reading: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons: A Study of Story Elements
Throughout this unit students will be reading alot! We will be meeting new characters as we explore many books. Students will be learning how to identify character traits and feelings. We will make connections to our lives and to other characters in books that we have previously read. Students will learn about the main components of fiction stories. We will use this information to support our Writer's Workshop activities.
During phonics we will continue to review letter sounds. We will explore vowel teams. 
Thank you for practicing sight words at home with your children!

Writing: From Scenes to Series
Students will create fictional chapter books centered around characters that they create. They will have their characters go on many adventures and discover how to include story elements such as setting, problem and solution into their writings. Students will add dialogue and action into their stories. Finally students will take their main character and create a series of chapter books centered around their adventures.


Math: 2D shapes
Students will study 2D shapes. We will be learning about their attributes. We will search for shapes as we compose and decompose shapes. We will explore fractions. Students will learn about equal and unequal parts. We will also learn about halves and quarters.
We have been working on our fluency for addition and subtraction. 
Remember, students should be spending about 10 minutes on their homework each night. Please let me know if your children are struggling so I can provide additional support to them during the school day.


Religion:
In our next unit of study we will the ways that God shares His love ffor us. Jesus taught his disciples and teaches us today all the ways that God shows us His love. We will learn about the Commandments.



Communication is very important. I will be updating this website once a week.  This will be an important site for you to look at, as it will be the place where I post important reminders, content information that we are learning about, homework, and pictures of our class. I will also send home a weekly newsletter that outlines what we will be doing and homework assignments for the week. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns as we start this adventure together.  I can be reached at Jennifer.Cellura@dor.org.

Important Dates:
6/17: Class Party
6/20: Field Day
6/21: Candle Light Ceremony
6/21: Last Day of School

Thank you for sharing your children with me this year!
Jen Cellura