Calendar
Monday 9/3 - Labor Day Holiday/School Closed
Thursday 9/6 - Picture Day/Dress Uniform
Saturday 9/15 Day of Service, More Info to Come - Registration Link
Saturday 9/15 Day of Service, More Info to Come - Registration Link
Monday 9/24 - Gr.K-4 Back to School Night, 5:30 PM
Throughout the year, girls participate in a balanced literacy program through whole class, small group, and partner participation. Lessons engage the girls in developing oral fluency, learning word study skills, and building comprehension skills. Our first unit introduces reading strategies with short story posters, the big book selection, Habitats Around the World, and a Reader's Theatre - Old MacDonald's Noisy Farm. Comprehension skills include learning to:
• Identify the main idea of a passage.
• Identify the details that support a main idea.
• Ask questions to understand a text.
• Identify the details that support a main idea.
• Ask questions to understand a text.
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| Main Idea & Details: Road Signs |
WRITING
Our first writing workshop unit, Small Moments introduces first graders to narrative writing. Girls will have many opportunities to write stories about their own lives. Mini lessons introduce strategies that writers can use to "bring stories to life". Anchor charts posted during this unit will provide girls with visual resources to refer back to as they embark on capturing special moments during writing workshop. 
MATH
We look forward to great year in math! Our program covers many concepts from exploring numbers to applying strategies in solving number problems. How can you count a large number of objects? Are there strategies that will help (counting by 2s, 5s, 10s)? What happens when you add one, two or three more to a number? Math manipulatives and games are an integral part of our program. Girls are working with new and familiar math tools such as: connecting cubes, dice with dots or numbers, ten frames and counters, base-10 blocks, number lines, number charts (up to 100), etc.
We look forward to great year in math! Our program covers many concepts from exploring numbers to applying strategies in solving number problems. How can you count a large number of objects? Are there strategies that will help (counting by 2s, 5s, 10s)? What happens when you add one, two or three more to a number? Math manipulatives and games are an integral part of our program. Girls are working with new and familiar math tools such as: connecting cubes, dice with dots or numbers, ten frames and counters, base-10 blocks, number lines, number charts (up to 100), etc.
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| Making Hand Mats for Future Math Games |
SCIENCE
Ms. Raina Cohen is teaching science to our first graders. The first investigation takes an in-depth look at plants. Girls will have first-hand experiences watching seeds grow and observing the growth of grass and grain seeds as they revisit the guiding focus question: "What do plants need?"
Crosscutting concepts focus on:
• Patterns: growth cycle with roots forming and then stem and leaves
• Cause and effect: amount of water affects growth
• Structure and function: structural parts of plants have specific functions
Throughout the year, first graders will be given opportunities for creativity and innovation with fun design and engineering challenges. Working with materials allows the girls to become independent thinkers and problem-solvers as they explore, create, and make discoveries on their own. Through enriching design challenges, girls begin to make connections to the real world and apply prior knowledge from previous experiences.
Ms. Raina Cohen is teaching science to our first graders. The first investigation takes an in-depth look at plants. Girls will have first-hand experiences watching seeds grow and observing the growth of grass and grain seeds as they revisit the guiding focus question: "What do plants need?" Crosscutting concepts focus on:
• Patterns: growth cycle with roots forming and then stem and leaves
• Cause and effect: amount of water affects growth
• Structure and function: structural parts of plants have specific functions
DESIGN & ENGINEERING CHALLENGES
Throughout the year, first graders will be given opportunities for creativity and innovation with fun design and engineering challenges. Working with materials allows the girls to become independent thinkers and problem-solvers as they explore, create, and make discoveries on their own. Through enriching design challenges, girls begin to make connections to the real world and apply prior knowledge from previous experiences. |
| Sharing Ideas for a New Playground |
SOCIAL STUDIES & SEL
Throughout the year, girls will reveal more about their personal life and interests through special All About Me posters. Social Emotional Learning lessons help our first graders learn strategies in ways to express, understand, and connect with self and others. We look forward to embracing our theme, "Cultivating Robust Vulnerability" through active engagement in all areas of our program.
Thanks Miss Belle! You are always so good at taking pics of our girls!! Always look fwd to the blog photos...Cheers, Marisa :)
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