First Grade

April 2026

Upcoming Events

  • Wednesday, April 1, 2026: Walk-a-thon/National Walking Day (wear school t-shirt)
  • Thursday, April 2, 2026 through Friday April 10, 2026: Spring break (no school)
  • Tuesday, April 14, 2026: Field trip to see the Paper Bag Players at Queensborough Performing Arts Center
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2026: PTA In-Person Meeting at 6:00 PM
  • Friday, April 24, 2026: PTA’s Spring Festival at 6PM in the gym

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, continued

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, continued

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

  • Focal Text: Ask Me by Bernard Waber

Math

Illustrative Mathematics Unit 6– Length Measurements within 120 units

  • Focus: Students will compare the lengths of objects indirectly, order objects by length, count groups of up to 120 objects and write a number to represent, as well as lay length units end-to-end with no gaps or overlaps and count the units to determine length.

Social Studies

Passport to Social Studies, Unit 3 – The Community, continued

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 3 – Spinning Earth

  • Students will become sky scientists. They will record, organize, and analyze observations of the sun and other sky objects as they look for patterns and make sense of the cycle of daytime and nighttime.

First Grade and K/1 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