First Grade Together - Part 1

Consistent early childhood education plays an important role in the lives of children. It provides children with consistent routines and unlimited learning opportunities, and provides families with the security of knowing their child is in a safe and nurturing environment. Having your child attend the class or group throughout their early years allows your child to develop relationships with the teacher and other children in that environment, which provides a sense of security. A child who is comfortable with the people in their life is more likely to participate and grow.

In 1st Together, students will have a consistent teacher, schedule and classmates as they learn a variety of subjects that constitute a well balanced first grade experience. Students build on their learning experiences together as they learn variety of subjects. The social aspect of 1st grade is crucially important as students learn to take turns, listen to each other and work together as a group. There will be opportunities for students to grow their social skills in every class. However there will be 3 days scheduled through this class for students to have more focused and intentional social interaction. Students will get pdf work sheets for each week's lessons in order for the students to interact with the lessons being taught. Students will be able to show and share the results of their work (if they feel comfortable) and be praised and encouraged for their accomplishments. As with all of my classes, this will be a fun, interactive and lively class. Shy students will not be forced to verbally respond or interact but active participation will be encouraged.

Classes will take place on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays for 35 minutes per class.


Week 1:

Monday: Students will review nouns, verbs and adjectives. We will play word games to reinforce the meaning of each type of word.


Wednesday: Interactive guided adventure story day. This is an intentional social day where students will work together to solve mysteries and make decisions that will effect the outcome of stories. 


Friday: Students will review adding and subtracting single digit numbers. This will be done in fun ways with a lot of interaction and visuals.


Week 2:

Monday: Students will learn to identifying nouns verbs and adjectives in a short stories. This stories will be silly and fun!


Wednesday: Students will learn about states of matter. Students will learn about liquids, solids and gases.


Friday: Students will learn how to adding and subtracting double digit numbers. This will be done in fun ways with a lot of interaction and visuals.



Week 3:

Monday: Students will learn about asking sentences and telling sentences. Students will learn to use a period as well as a question mark to label what kind of sentence they see.


Wednesday: Students will learn about the water cycle. Students will learn about the importance of clouds and rain in having fresh water. 


Friday: Students will learn about simple word problems. Students will work to add numbers found in word problems. Students will learn to write the numbers 1-5 in word form.



Week 4:

Monday: Students will learn about compound words. Students will learn to identify compound words and put two words together to make one.


Wednesday: Students will learn about the food chain. Students will learn about how plants and animals need each other. We will discuss animals that are herbivores and carnivores.


Friday: Students will learn about simple word problems. Students will work to subtract numbers found in word problems. Students will learn to write the numbers 6-10 in word form.



Week 5:

Monday: Students will learn about words that sound alike but are different, called homophones. 


Wednesday: Social Day: We will discuss the difference between needs vs wants.  Students will show something of theirs that is a need and will show the class something of theirs that they wanted.


Friday: Students will learn about greater than, less than and equal to with double digits. Students will practice skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's.



Week 6:

Monday: Students will learn about words that are synonyms and antonyms. 


Wednesday: Students will learn about the life and time of George Washington. We will talk about what a president is and the role of a president. 


Friday: Students will review greater than, less than and equal to for a short time. Students will practice telling time with digital and analog clocks to the hour.



Week  7:

Monday: Students will learn to spell & write common words:  We will focus on spelling and writing animals names. We will learn some fun facts about a few awesome animals. 


Wednesday: Students will learn about the life and time of Abraham Lincoln. We will NOT talk about racism or slavery but simplify the language to talk about Lincoln fighting to protect those who were being mistreated. We will talk more about what a president is and the role of a president. 


Friday: Students will review skip counting for a short time. Students will learn telling time with digital and analog clocks to the half hour.




Week 8:

Monday: Students will learn to spelling & writing common words:  We will focus on spelling and writing names of body parts. We will learn some fun fact about the human body.


Wednesday: Students will learn how things were made, bought and sold throughout history. We will discuss how daily life has changed throughout time.


Friday: Students will learn telling time with digital and analog clocks to the minute. Students will review adding and subtracting word problems.




Week 9:

Monday: Students will learn to spelling & writing common words:  We will focus on spelling and writing names of vehicles and road words. We will learn some fun facts about transportation.


Wednesday: Students will learn the history of transportation. We will discuss the changes from wagons, boats, planes, trains and automobiles and how these changes affected peoples lives. 


Friday: Students will learn about American units of measurements. We will focus on inches, feet, yards and miles.


Week 10:

Monday: Students will learn to spell & write common words:  We will focus on spelling and writing names of things found in the ocean. We will learn some fun facts about the ocean and things in it.


Wednesday: Interactive guided adventure story day. This is an intentional social day where students will work together to solve mysteries and make decisions that will effect the outcome of stories. 


Friday: Students will learn about American units of measurements. We will focus on ounces, pounds, cups, quarts and gallons.


I also offer this as an ongoing class that meets twice a week.
https://outschool.com/classes/first-grade-together-learning-pod-ongoing-kuMuEt0v?usid=h2Foskme&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link


PDF files will be posted each Friday for the following week's classes. These pdf's will have worksheets that will be used in the next week's classes, any instructions parents should know about the upcoming classes, reminders of show and tell dates or get to know you questions so students can come prepared as well. Students will have the opportunity for classmates to become friends and work together to achieve our learning goals. I hope you can join us as we do 1st grade together!