Mallard Creek Elementary

First Quarter 2015

Ms. Burney Ms. Edens Ms. Ferguson Ms. Khun Mrs. Tucker Ms. Zunino

First Grade Focus

What will we be learning this quarter?

Reading
CCSS: RF.1.1 Students will understand that a sentence is organized with groups of words, specific punctuation, and capital letters
Students will be able to recognize
Questions and Prompts
-capital letters
-Show me where to start reading this sentence.
-that the first word of every sentence begins with a capital letter -What punctuation mark (period, question mark, exclamation point) best fits this sentence?
-that sentences are made up of words
Why?
-that a sentence has ending punctuation
-the three types of ending punctuation
CCSS: RF.1.3 Students will learn and apply specific strategies for decoding words in text through phonics and analysis.
Students will be able to
Questions and Prompts
-decode regular spelled one-syllable words
-Does that sound right?
-What do these two letters sound like together
-use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to -Does that look right?
(sh, th, ch) in this word?
determine the number of syllables in a printed word
-Does that make sense?
-Can you clap the syllables in this word?
-Look at the word, does it look like?
-Look at the beginning of that word. Can you
-You said does it look like?
get it started?
CCSS: RL.1.7 Students will use pictures and details in a story to tell about characters, setting, and events.
Students will be able to
Describe:
Using:
-Can you find an illustration or part that describes/shows the main character?
-characters
-story illustrations
-Can you find an illustration or part that describes/shows the setting?
-setting
-story details
-Can you find an illustration or part that shares the problem in the story?
-events

Writing
CCSS: W.1.3 Students will write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use
temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure
When writing about a personal experience or memory, students
-tell the events in sequential order
-write an engaging and satisfying ending
Math
-use sequencing
words such as: first, next, then, last
-provide descriptions and details to make their story interesting.
-write across multiple pages (3-5)
-engage in behaviors (turn and talk, small group discussion, and emergent writing and
-each page in the text should include 1-2 sentences with an illustration or speaking learning centers) that lead to the expression of ideas both verbally and in
image that matches the text.
writing.

Mallard Creek Elementary

First Quarter 2015

Ms. Burney Ms. Edens Ms. Ferguson Ms. Khun Mrs. Tucker Ms. Zunino

First Grade Focus

What will we be learning this quarter?

Math
Students will be able to
-Keep track of counting a set of up to
20 objects
-Orally count forward and backward
from 1-30
-use the number line as a tool for
counting
-identify 1 more or 1 less for a
number between 1 and 20
-draw up to 20 objects
-use the greater than (>), less than
(<), or equal to (=) symbol to compare
quantities up to 20
-use manipulatives and drawings to
model what is happening in an
addition story problem with totals to
20
-use + and = for representing addition
situations
-use counting all, counting on, or
number combinations to find the total
of two or more quantities up to a total
of 20
-use manipulatives, drawings, and or
standard notation (__+__=__) to
identify combinations of numbers up
to 10

Social Studies
Students will learn about roles and
responsibilities and explain how
conflicts can be resolved in home,
school, classrooms, and community.

Science.
Students will learn about the
scientific method and the steps to
conduct an experiment