First Grade Discovery Advanced
First grade Discovery Advanced will meet three days a week for about 50 minutes. Students will be pulled out of class during a time that is least disruptive. For first grade this will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday after lunch. Discovery on Monday is reading, Wednesday is writing (first semester) / science (second semester) and Friday is math. The concepts taught and homework assigned will be on Ren Web. Please check weekly to find out what we are learning and what homework was assigned. Homework assigned is due the following week on the day that the subject re-occurs.
Every month a menu of projects and activities will be given. This will be given out at the beginning of the month and due at the end of the month (unless otherwise posted in Ren Web.) There are nine projects/activities to choose from and students have to complete 7 for an A+, 6 for an A, 5 for a B, and 4 or less will not be accepted. (Students will need to keep working until completed.) The projects should each be completed on full sheets of separate paper or construction paper either hand written or typed and stapled as a booklet. A cover page with the student's name and title should be included. Work should be completed to the best of the student’s capabilities, and as creative as possible!
Here are some of the concepts your child will be discovering:
READING: Hailstones and Halibut Bones -poetry, fluency, description, metaphors
Zelda and Ivy -fiction, context clues, vocabulary
December Secrets -realistic fiction, character traits and motivations
The 100th Day of School -realistic fiction, character analysis, cause/ effect
Freckle Juice -realistic fiction, summarizing
Sarah Plain and Tall -realistic fiction, cause and effect, character analysis
Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles -realistic fiction, mystery, inferencing
Science Books -non-fiction text structure
WRITING: Poetry – acrostic poems, alliteration poems, color poems
Wish Story – narrative, story structure, triple twist plot
Report – informational text structure (If time allows)
MATH: place value to the ten thousands, odd /even, greatest and least, comparison <>=, expanded form, composing and
decomposing numbers, rounding, doubling, make ten strategy, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing,
problem solving, money, etc.
SCIENCE: states of matter, molecules and atoms, periodic table of elements, density of matter, changing the density of matter,
pressure of matter, colloids, mixtures and solutions, soluble and insoluble, buoyancy, crystals, reading and hands on
experiments,scientific method and learning to write a lab write-up
Please view the WEBSITES tab for links to online math / reading concepts and games.