What will First Graders be learning in April?
Reading/Language Arts
Writing
Students will:
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 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses.
 Compare and contrast the experiences and adventures of characters.
 Distinguish between information provided by illustrations and information
provided by the words in a text.
 Use words that signal simple relationships to distinguish shades of
meaning between verbs.
 Explain major differences between texts that tell stories and texts that
give information.
 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
 Sort words into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories
represent.
 Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same
topic.
 Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Students will:
 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard
English grammar and usage, capitalization, punctuation, and
spelling when writing.
 Write narratives in which they recount two or more
appropriately sequenced events, include some details
regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal
event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Math
Social Studies and Science
Students will:
 Add within 100 (including adding a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number, and a
2-digit number and a multiple of 10), and subtract models of ten in the range of
10-90, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value,
properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and
subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning
used.
 Understand that in adding 2-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and
ones, and that sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
In Science, students will:
 Recognize that caring about the environment is an
important human activity.
 Recognize and describe that activities of individuals or
groups of individuals can affect the environment.
 Identify and describe the sources and uses of electricity in
daily life.
In Social Studies, students will:
 Describe how human, natural and capital resources are used
to produce a good.
Important Dates:
4/19
4/22
4/26
4/29
Spring and Class Pictures
Baltimore Zoo Field Trip
Primary Election-No School
Field Day
Teacher Requests:
Mace: tissues and hand sanitizer
Melrose: tissues
Rakow: nothing at this time
Ruiz: tissues, hand sanitizer, stamp pads/ink pads
Taylor: tissues
Technology Corner:
FYI...
 The school is transitioning from heat to air conditioning. Looking to enrich your child’s learning? Try some of the
suggested websites or free apps below…
Add that to the unpredictable weather this year, and
 There are some great online manipulatives available on The
we suggest that you send your children in layers to
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website. (Please
allow them to adjust to the temperature accordingly.
note: you will need to have Java to use them.)
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Also try The International Children’s Digital Library for free
online children’s books from around the world.