1st Grade

On this page, you will find low and high tech resources for 1st Grade students.

• Read a book to your child or have him/her read a book to you. Make this a consistent routine every day--choose a time and a special place in your home.

• With your child, point out what they can see in the pictures. Ask questions about the characters, setting, colors, etc.

• Ask the child: What is this book mostly about? (Think main idea.) What did you learn in this book? (If fiction, think about the text’s lesson; if nonfiction, think about the topic.)

• Ask: If the book has a main character, then think about them. Ask yourself, “What kind of character is he/she?” Your child can share their thinking by talking about it or writing their response.

• Have your child talk about, draw pictures, and/or write a response to the book read or heard. What was the text about? What did you like or think was interesting about the text?

• To refine your phonics or reading comprehension skills, watch a BrainPOP Jr. video daily and complete the associated video tasks.

  1. CLICK | BrainPOP Jr. - Offers free access during school closures. Click on the banner at the top of the page and set up a family account to access many Reading and Writing videos and activities.

• In order to learn about a grade level appropriate topic through reading, choose an activity from Scholastic Learn at Home or ReadWorks.com and complete the tasks associated with the texts.

  1. CLICK | Scholastic Learn at Home - 20 days of cross-curricular learning experiences based on stories, videos, and learning challenges.

  2. CLICK | ReadWorks.com - Create a free account and choose texts according to grade level and topic

• Have your child keep a journal about what is happening each day and what they think and feel each day.

• Have your child practice adding and subtracting 0, 1, and 2 within 10, this can be done on paper or with household objects (e.g. legos, crayons, etc.).

• Your child can work on math facts with a number minus itself is zero, from 0-0 to 10-10 (e.g. 7-7 = 0) by using flashcards with a guardian or individually.

• You can practice doubles facts (e.g., 3 + 3) and halving (e.g., 6 - 3) within 10 with your child.

  • Families could work with their child to write facts and their answers on separate index cards, and then play memory to match the math facts to the correct answer

  • Students could glue or sort objects like beans with these facts and write the matching number sentence. A family member would need to check to make sure they are correct

  • Work with your child to help them understand number combinations of 10 (e.g., 6 + 4 = 10 and 10 - 6 = 4).

    • These facts and their answers could be put on separate index cards, and then they can play memory to match the math fact to the correct answer with a guardian

  • You can work with your child on doubles plus one facts (e.g., 4+3 and 5+4) and inside doubles (doubles plus 1 to one addend and minus 1 from the other, e.g., 3+5 and 4+6) within 10

    • These facts and their answers could be put on separate index cards, and then they can play memory to match the double to the correct answer

    • Have your child practice comparing numbers up to 40, using the terms greater than and less than.

      • Write numbers 0-40 on index cards and then play “war,” whichever person has the card with the greater value gets both cards.

      • You can write and math word problems based on household objects with your child.

      • Your child can create groups of ten and some ones from a collection of objects (e.g. taking 75 beans, and creating 7 groups of 10 and then 5 ones).

        • Ask: “How many groups of ten are there in 75? How many did not fit into a group of ten?”

      • Your child can measure various objects with a ruler and identify the length in centimeters.

        • Ask your child to order the objects from longest to shortest

        • solve problems like “how much longer is the book than the crayon?

• With your guardian, keep a journal about the food web and your little KIPPster’s role in the food web:

  • Make a list of all the food items you ate for dinner last night.

• Record whether the food items came from plants or animals.

  • Which food items were vegetables or fruits? (These came from plants.)

  • Which food items were meats, cheese products, or mushrooms? (These came from animals.)

  • Some foods are a mixture of plant and animal sources. For example, a biscuit is made from flour, which comes from a plant. It also has milk and butter, which come from an animal (a cow).

• Write down all the sources you can think of for each ingredient.

• Look at your list. Did you eat more food items from plants or from animals and fungi?

• Now that you have taken a look at what you ate, would you call yourself a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore? Explain your answer.

• CLICK | Brain Pop Science - Provides a video of food webs +quizzes

• With your guardian, go outside and observe, describe and draw the appearance of the moon. (full, waxing, waning, half, quarter). Keep track of your observations in your journal.

• Find a place to sit down, close your eyes and listen to the sounds around you. In your journal record the following:

  • Write the sounds that you hear

  • Draw a picture of what’s making each sounds

  • Describes the smells

  • CLICK | Scholastic: Read and Play about Sound - Use this webpage to learn more about sound.

• With your guardian, complete a coderZ challenge

  • CLICK | Stechchallenges - All challenges are due by 3/30 midnight