First Grade

March 2026

Upcoming Events

  • Monday, March 2, 2026: Marking period 3 begins
  • Thursday, March 5, 2026: Half Day; Parent-Teacher Conferences (1-3 PM and 5-8 PM)
  • Wednesday, March 11, 2026: PTA’s Spring Picture Day
  • Monday, March 16, 2026: Report cards distributed via NYC Student Accounts
  • Tuesday, March 17, 2026: 115th day of school
  • Wednesday, March 18, 2026: In-Person Coffee & Conversation at 8:25 AM
  • Friday, March 20, 2026: Eid al-Fitr (no school)
  • Wednesday, March 26, 2026: PTA Meeting at 8:25 AM (in-person)
  • Friday, March 27, 2026: Career Day

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.
  • Students have Recess from 10:28 AM – 10:50 AM; First grade Lunch is from 10:50 AM – 11:18 AM
  • 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

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

  • Focal Text: Ask Me by Bernard Waber

Math

Illustrative Mathematics Unit 5– Adding within 100

  • Focus: Students will add within 100 without composing a ten, use equations to represent addition methods, add a one-digit and a two-digit number within 100 with composing a ten, as well as adding 2 two-digit numbers within 100, with composing a ten.

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.1.2-118A
  • Ms. Walsh, 1-120
  • Mrs. Romano, 1-119
  • Ms. DeCanio, 1-207
  • Ms. Yeung and Ms. Cuevas, 1-205