First Grade

March 2025

Upcoming Events

  • Monday, March 3, 2025: Marking period 3 begins
  • Thursday, March 6, 2025: Parent-Teacher Conferences from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
  • Monday, March 10, 2025: PTA’s Spring Picture Day
  • Friday, March 14, 2025: 115th day of school (wear the school t-shirt); Report cards distributed via NYC Student Accounts
  • Wednesday, March 19, 2025: In-Person Coffee & Conversation at 8:25 AM
  • Wednesday, March 26, 2025: PTA Virtual Meeting at 6:00 PM
  • Friday, March 28, 2025: Career Day
  • Monday, March 31, 2025: Eid al-Fitr (no school)

Reminders

  • First Grade Arrival & Dismissal – Door A
  • The school day starts at 8:10 AM and ends at 2:30 PM. Please make sure your child comes to school on time.
  • First grade Lunch is from 11:19 AM – 11:45 AM; Students have Recess from 11:45 AM – 12:09 PM
  • Please review and return your child’s Homework everyday; please clean out your child’s daily folder each day.

Learning Focus

Literacy

Into Reading: Unit 7 – The Big Outdoors

Focus: Students will be learning about nature, and we will investigate how things in nature can change

Essential skills: Ideas and support, text organization, make inferences, point of view, research: gather information

Writing

Into Reading: Writer’s Workshop: Unit 7 – Poetry: Poem

Students will be able to write a poem about things they like.

Focal Text: Ask Me by Bernard Waber

Math

Envisions 2.0

Kindergarten:

  • Topic 9 – Count numbers to 20
  • Topic 10 – Compose and decompose numbers 11 to 19

Grade 1:

  • Topic 9 – Compare two-digit numbers
  • Topic 10 – Use models and strategies to add tens and ones

Social Studies

Passport to Social Studies, Unit 3: The Community

Students will be able to:

  • identify what a community is and the   members in a community.
  • examine how maps are used to find   different types of information about a   community
  • apply knowledge of rules and laws
  • identify roles and responsibilities of citizens
  • analyze images of human-made resources   and how they meet a community’s needs.

Science

Amplify Science

Unit 2 – Light and Sound (continued)

Focus: Students will be able to take on the role of light and sound engineers by investigating cause-and-effect relationships and learn about the nature of light and sound.

First Grade and K.1.2 Team

  • Mrs. Hernandez, K.1.2
  • Ms. Walsh, 1-120
  • Mrs. Romano, 1-119
  • Ms. DeCanio, 1-207
  • Ms. Yeung and Ms. Cuevas, 1-205