8:00-8:15-Morning Work
8:15-8:25-Morning Gathering
8:25-9:00-Writer’s Workshop
9:00-9:20-Reader’s Workshop Mini-lesson
9:20-10:30-Reading Centers
10:30-10:40-Phonics Dance
10:40-11:10-Lunch
11:15-11:35-Recess
11:35-12:05-Science/Social Studies
12:05-12:20-Math Workshop
12:20-1:10-Math Centers
1:10-1:25-Snack/Read Aloud
1:25-1:35-Pack up
1:40-2:40-Specials
2:40-2:50-End of the Day Gathering
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Fiction:
• Story structure: characters, setting, problem, solution
• Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
• Comparing and contrasting
• Inferences
• Personal Connections (fables)
• Fairy Tales
Poetry
• Rhyme and rhythm
• Alliteration and repetition
• Comprehension (drawing pictures)
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Genre study (Real or Fantasy and how do we know)
Author’s purpose (PIE)
Non-fiction
• How-to
• Sequencing
• Main idea and details
• Inferences
• Comparing and Contrasting
Step 1: Always select a “good fit” book. 5 finger check
Step 2: Sounding out word strategies
Step 3: Stop and check-can I tell what the story is about?
Step 4: Re-read for fluency and comprehension
The books that students read for pleasure and in their book
bags will be “good fit” books-not too hard and not too easy
The books that students read with the teachers will be
instructional level books (just above their good fit book level)
• 100 high frequency words-individual approach
• Words Their Way-individual approach
• Personal Spelling Journal and Words (Green Folder)
• Read Book Bags
• Word Work: Word Sorts/Personal Spelling Practice
• Writing Center: Free-write, grammar skill, writing skill
• Word Work: Personal Sight Words
• Technology: Listen to reading, Istation
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Labeling
Lists (nouns and verbs)
Small moments (important personal stories)
Fictional stories
Poetry
Letter writing (Valentine’s Post Office)
How-to (transition to non-fiction writing)
Research project (9 week unit)
Fairy Tales
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10 frames and numbers up to 20
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Data analysis (graphs and questioning)
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Addition (first to 12, then to 20)
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Subtraction (within 20)
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Time to the hour and half hour
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Counting by 5s and 10s
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Tens and Ones to 120
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Comparing and Ordering Numbers
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Money
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Measurement (non-standard units)
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Shapes
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Fractions (1/2 and ¼)
Financial Literacy (Farm Unit-scarcity, decisions, charitable giving, earning income)
We focus a lot of computational fluency in first grade. Here are
some strategies that will be introduced:
• Draw a picture
• Use your fingers
• Counting on
• Making 10
• Doubles
• Write a number sentence
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Science Tools and Safety
• Living vs. non-living
• Weather, Seasons, Sky
• Classifying objects
• Force, Motion, and Energy
• Rocks and Soil
• Water
• Life Cycles and Offspring
• Plants
Animal Interdependence and adaptations
All about me and my world
• Rules and citizenship
• Past and Present
• Family Traditions
• Historical Figures
• Maps
• Economics (needs, wants, goods, services, scarcity)
We love to celebrate birthdays: During recess, 20 storebought treats only.
Homework: we will be introducing in phases (see
flipbook)-book bags (9/8), word sorts (9/8), sight words
(9/15) , personal words (9/21)
• 9/25-Magik Theatre (students only to establish field trip
norms)
• 10/23-Guadalupe (parent volunteers needed)
• 3/29-Walking field trip to park
• 3/30-DoSeum
• 5/9-Walking field trip to park
• 5/10-Farm field trip
• 5/31-Magik Theatre
Our cafeteria offers a variety of snacks (Poptarts, chips,
energy juice, Teddy Grahams, cookies, etc.) These snacks
usually cost around $1. Students with money in their account
may buy 1 a day unless you contact the cafeteria manager
(by email: jquintanilla@ahisd.net or via a note) limiting a
snacks.