Classroom Announcements
Smart Start and Unit 1 Language Arts Goals (6 weeks)
Theme: All About Us
- Kindergarten review for three weeks with Smart Start
- Short vowels “a and i”, listening for L blends and ending blends
- Review of kindergarten sight words and introduction of first grade sight words
- Comprehension strategies: characters and settings, sequence of events in a story, plot: beginning, middle, and end and author’s purpose
- Writing: Personal narrative: All About Me story (trying to include descriptive sentences)
- Unit 1 assessment, Sight word assessment, and completed writing on the Writer’s Wall
- Students should know 60 or more sight words by the end of the 1st trimester
Topic 1 Math Goals: Understanding Addition (8 lessons and online math assessment)
- Spatial patterns for numbers to 10
- Ways to make 6 and 7
- Ways to make 8
- Ways to make 9
- Introducing Addition Expressions and Number sentences
- Stories about joining
- Adding in any order
- Working with objects and manipulatives for problem solving