Reading 

   Most students will make the best progress when reading with others at
the same skill level. Some students will do better working on their own.
We do all-together reading at the  start of each day. We call this
Shared Reading. Then we use the Mcgraw-Hill readers and
 coordinating little books for more practice and instruction in
specific reading skills. We also participate in the Accellerated
Reader program which makes for successful reading practice
with a variety of little books. "AR" is a great motivator.
    And we do lots of extra reading with books that the children select
themselves. Many of these will be fact or fiction books on the topic of
our current theme. We also read from our own writing Portfolios
andthe poems we collect in our own
Poetry Files.

My goal is for every  child to finish the year excited and
confident about his or her reading ability.
That is a big step toward becoming lifelong readers.
 
 

Math 
We will learn so much in math this year: adding, subtracting, counting
money, measuring, telling time, graphing, gathering and recording data.
And that's not all! (Some student may need extra home practice
to keep up with the fast pace of first grade math.)
 
 

Other subjects
See the Year-at-a-Glance page.