First Grade Fun

2007 – 2008 First Grade Teachers

Mrs. McArdle, Mrs. Gladieux, Mrs. Croft,

Mrs. Lessner, Mrs. Mrozik, Mrs. Phillips,

and Mrs. Shadwell

Welcome!  The first grade teachers are looking forward to having a great year with all of our wonderful students.  If you ever have any questions or concerns, please let us know - our contact information can be found in the "Staff" page to the left

Language Arts

ü During the year students will learn to read while  working on fluency and comprehension skills.  Some comprehension skills we will address are predicting, visualizing, generalizing, sequencing, author’s purpose, character, cause and effect, main idea and supporting details, context clues, graphic sources, steps in a process, fact and opinion, theme, reality vs. fantasy, drawing conclusions and plot structure.

ü Children will periodically be given a formal reading test called a running record.  The goal is to have children reading at their instructional level as much as possible.  Children’s report card scores will be a reflection of their reading level.  Below are listed the goals for your child's reading level for the end of each quarter.

Quarter 1: Level D

Quarter 2: Level F

Quarter 3: Level G

Quarter 4: Level I

ü We will be learning a variety of grammar topics also.  The children will learn how to write a complete sentence using correct sentence structure.  This will include correct use of upper case letters and punctuation marks.  We will also learn about nouns, verbs and adjectives.

ü Students will also work on paragraph writing.  They will be responsible for a 5 sentence paragraph, including a topic sentence, 3 proof sentences and a feeling/conclusion sentence.

ü Please visit http://www.pbskids.org or http://www.starfall.com for additional reading activities.

Math

ü Students will be working on addition, subtraction, place value, geometry, fractions, measurement, probability, money and time.

ü Please visit http://www.aplusmath.com for additional math fact practice.

Science

ü First grade will learn many fun and interesting facts about living things, nutrition, weather and seasons and energy.

Social Studies

ü Students will cover many topics in Social Studies this year.  These include All About Me, People at Work, Our World, Communities, American Celebrations and History of America.

We look forward to having a wonderful year!