SIMI VALLEY SCHOOLS
1st Grade
Light and Sound
Space Systems: Patterns and Cycles
Structures and Functions of Organisms
FIRST GRADE
Academic Vocabulary
Words of Focus
- ask
- category
- classify
- combine
- comment
- communicate
- decide
- discuss
- find
- investigate
- notice
- organize
- plan
- predict
- reason
- respond
- retell
- review
- select
- sequence
No Excuse Words
All first grade students are expected to spell these words correctly in their daily writing by the end of the year.
a, do, he, is, of, said, they we, and for, here, me, on see, to, what, are, go I, my one, she, too, who, because have in, not, play, the, was, you.
What a great year we are having in first grade ! Exciting changes at school! We are building a new excellent, state of the art MPR building! First graders have a front row seat to every step!
Our first graders are learning to proofread as a whole class and help to "correct" our many capitalization, spelling, and punctuation errors in our morning message. Reading fluency and comprehension are the keystones at this age. At home, please read every night together and talk about what is read . It makes such a big difference!
In math, first graders are working with time, money, and the meaning of numbers greater than they can count, and two and three dimensional shapes.
Thank you for a chance to work with your student this year. Remember to always "proceed with kindness", and "dream big"!
