Rm 5 - First Grade
 Peg High highm@bcsd.com |
Welcome to the High Five Room!
Room 5 is teeming with wonderful books, both fiction and nonfiction. We have sport books, riddle books, songbooks, poetry books and we do author studies as well. We snuggle with books frequently at school just as you do at home. Learning word families, compounds, contractions and chunks in words helps us read with the fluency present in natural speech. We look at the story elements of plot, setting, and characters in a story as well as use sequence to retell the important parts. We develop strong oral communication skills through poetry, music and responding to literature. We expand the five sentence paragraph to include more detailed descriptions while using correct capitalization, punctuation and spelling appropriate for first grade. Spelling tests include word families and high-frequency words. We read and develop comprehension skills by including accelerated reader books and their corresponding quizzes in our daily work. Enrichment homework is available through http://www.raz-kids.com.
Students will memorize the addition and subtraction facts to 20 and work with coins including the quarter. We solve age-appropriate word problems. We also learn to compare data on a graph so that we can tell how many more or how many less there are with respect to other elements of a group.
We begin the year with a study of Life science, progressing to Earth Science and Physical Science. Songs are always a big part of our learning units so be prepared to hear a tune or two! Our study of the rainforest will include all of these areas of science and highlight our yearlong emphasis on cooperation.
In first grade amazing events do happen every day!
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