Ms.+Harvey

Ms Harvey
First grade teacher Email 4th quarter plan

Reading During the months of April, May and June we will focus on word solving actions that will allow all of the students to use their knowledge of the language system to solve words. Students will learn how to build words from what they already know and locate words in the room to use as a spelling guide. They will also be writing more words from what they know. Students will be working on making reading more automatic. They will be working on rate as well as fluency or how they sound when they read. Writing This quarter we will be focusing on our final copy of poetry. We will talk about rhyme and how poetry should look on line spacing. We will then return to creative stories and work organization of a story and how it works. Science The students will focus on the word around them and making it a better place. We will talk about Ecology and what that means to them as well as ways to take care of the earth and how to use less of its natural resources and how to reuse more. As we end of the year we will talk about the weather and patterns of weather that are occurring. We will talk about when it is sunny and how when the mornings are cold but the day can end up nice and vice versa. The students will acquire more of a vocabulary and understanding about whether and how to take a daily temperature reading. Social Studies The students will take this time to understand the global issues of helping the world stay green and why that matters. Students will be able to articulate why it is good to throw away trash and how to take care of our earth. Finally we will be talking about careers and how everyone has a different career as they get older. We will take on as a group the career of an artist and what that means as we prepare to go on our field trip to wisdom art school. Math In math we will work on numbers to 100 we will use what we have learned in the past such as addition, subtraction and function machines and extend that to 100. We will also work on ordinal numbers and what that means. In May will move into geometry and what that means and what shapes are. We will go over what we learned at the beginning of the year with patters and use different shapes in geometry to do some more. In the final portion of the year we will move into fractions and measurement.

Third Quarter Reading – We are continuing to build vocabulary by reading new books and learning about new sounds in phonics. We are working on vowel consonant e words. We are also starting blends. We are also working on what long and short vowels do in words. We will be focusing more on comprehension of our stories as the students are able to read longer stories. Expect to see more homework on retelling of a story and what is the most exciting part of a story.
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Writing this quarter we are focusing on the six traits. We will continue to work on all the traits but have a new focus every week. We will work on finishing up persuasive writing and then moving onto creative writing and poetry. We are building on the skills that we have and moving into more complex two digit addition to 20 and also working on subtraction skills. This will be the bulk of the third quarter. Will then extend that to numbers to 100. The next unit of study will be matter and how it is every where and what we can do with matter. We will talk and do experiments about the states of matter and the students will understand that matter is EVERYWHERE.
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We will continue to learn about who is in our school and how they help us. We will learn how we can help at school and how we can learn more about helping at school. We will also start talking about our community and how we can help keep our community clean and re-use items.

Second Quarter ** Language Arts ** Reading – We are continuing to build vocabulary by reading new books and learning about new sounds in phonics. We are finished with short vowel sounds and we are now moving to vowel consonant e words. We are also starting blends. Reading is getting more excited for everyone as they become good readers.

We will be focusing more on comprehension of our stories as the students are able to read longer stories. Expect to see more homework on retelling of a story and what is the most exciting part of a story.

During our comprehension days we will be thinking about comprehension themes in the picture books we read. In November we will be working on compare and contrast, cause and effect, identifying the main idea and details and representing a text graphically. In December we will be working on reading classics and contemporary works, reading for a purpose and using pictures to support comprehension.

Writing this quarter we are focusing on the six traits. We are starting with narratives and working on ideas and getting more details into our writing. We are making it exciting for others to read our writing. At the conclusion of this topic we will be sharing our final product with the 2nd grade. After this we will be moving on to persuasive writing. We will be working on sentence fluency and tenses. At the conclusion of this unit we will be writing about a toy that we would like and writing persuasively why we should have it.

** Math ** We are building on the skills that we have and moving into simple addition and subtraction and story problems. We will then move into addition facts and start thinking about numbers such as counting with 5’s. We will be working with money and how it relates to math. Finally, we will begin to talk about 2 digit addition.

** Science ** We will continue to explore animals. We will do projects with insects and fish and even explore the aquarium to further our discussion and background knowledge about fish. As we work on projects we will work on labeling and describing fish and insects and know the difference between them. We will talk and complete projects about animal homes and how they stay safe. We will talk about and complete projects about changes that animals go through as they get older.

The next unit of study will be matter and how it is every where and what we can do with matter.

** Social Studies **

We will continue to learn about who is in our school and how they help us. We will learn how we can help at school and how we can learn more about helping at school.

First Quarter

LA September – We will be going over phonics skills and word families. The students continue to learn about how two or three letters can form one sound. They will continue with high frequency words. Students will continue to work on spelling. In the classroom we will continue to work on our word wall and using that wall and other sources to help with spelling in writing. The students will be encouraged to use resources in the room to develop their writing and spelling skills such as books, the word wall, class writing ect. We will begin to talk about audience.

October - we will continue with blends and the sounds that they make. We will be working on mouth formations for purposes of sounds. In reading we will start reading for accuracy and expression. We will continue to work on how grammar affects our reading. In writing the students will be encouraged to read work to a partner and include all details that will help the reader understand the meaning. We also will continue to talk about audience, word choice and audience.

Science September- Science - We will continue to talk about plants and what makes them grow and why are they living things. We will begin to do some experiments. We are working with the 5th grade class to learn more about seeds and roots. Towards the end of the month we begin talking about Animals as living things and how they are classified.

October- We will continue to talk about animals and how to classify them. We will move on to how animals meet their needs (such as food, shelter and a safe place). We will talk about connections with our own lives and animal lives.

Reading Comprehension September and October- We will be working on comprehension skills for at least the next two months. We will talk about analyzing and evaluating, Interpreting through explanation, Interpret through drama/performance, inferring, predicting and drawing conclusions. By working on comprehension the students will understand what the book is talking about and have a unique perspective on how books work.

Social Studies September/October Why do schools have rules? We will talk about why schools have rules and what they are used for. We will use what we have learned about playing fair and accepting differences and use that to explain why we have rules at school.

We will have a break in our normal lessons to talk about the international day of peace September 21st. Our project for this ESLR will be writing peace statements. We will be reading books and possibly watching some videos about peace.

Math September This month we will start working on number lines and how to fine the numbers on a number line. We will use prior knowledge from calendar time on tally marks and start organizing the data into graphs

October We will be looking at measurements. The students will measure their heights and estimate and measure out each student’s weights.

Writing We will continue with the six traits and write about different subjects we are just finishing writing about an animal.

Homework 30 minutes per night We will focus on spelling, reading and now that we are done with the first chapter in math we will also be adding in more math. Please check the student homework book nightly for updates.