Here's what we're learning about in First Grade        

                                                                                                                                                                       

April
 May and June
Themes
 Earth Day
habitats
animal
Rain Forests
Spring
Insects
 
Themes
 Mother's Day
Insects
Weather
Citizenship
Getting Along
Father's Day
Summer
Reading and Language Arts
Big books
choral reading poems
Vocabulary introduction
Basic Sight Vocabulary
word wall words
decoding words
rhyming words
centers
Guided Reading Groups
 word work
Writing skills
writing reports
research
Reading and Language Arts
 
Basic Sight Vocabulary
Decoding words
Poems
Word study skills:  rhymes, synonyms, opposites, adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc...
Reading Big books
Guided reading groups
Centers
Writing skills
Stories
research
Math 
 Geometry- shapes
patterns
 
telling time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter hour
 
Counting money
making change
 
Math
 
 
telling time
counting money
adding and subtracting with 2 digits
Using a number grid 
number relations
 
 
 

 
Health, Science and Social Studies:
Earth day
                            Rain Forest
                            Animals and habitats
                            Insects
Health, Science and Social Studies
Mother's day
 Weather
Social skills
Manners