Ms. Overbye's 
First Grade

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Reading

•In Reading we incorporate aspects of the Daily 5 and CAFE. The Daily 5 allows students to develop reading independence and stamina, giving the teachers more time to work with students in small reading groups.  With the Daily 5 we focus on Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Listening to Reading.  CAFE teaches students strategies for comprehension, accuracy, fluency, and expanding vocabulary.  These strategies are posted on the bulletin board and constantly referred to as we add strategies throughout the year.


Language Arts

•In grammar we focus on nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, capitalization, and punctuation.

•We also use Orton-Gillingham. This is a program that teaches the connections between sounds and letters.. It is the 1st program to teach struggling readers this way, but it is beneficial for all readers! In this program, reading and spelling are broken down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds. Students then continue to build on these skills over time. OG is a “multisensory” approach to teaching reading. Sight, hearing, touch and movement are used to help students connect language with letters and words. OG helps students understand why words are spelled the way they are instead of just memorizing them.


Writing

•We use Lucy Calkins which is a writing workshop model wherein students focus upon narrative, informational, and opinion pieces.  Students become more familiar with the writing process (planning and drafting -> revising and editing -> publication). 


Math

•We are combining My Math with Everyday Math. The main topics we will cover are:

•Place Value
•Measurement
•Solve problems involving basic addition and subtraction
•Sorting, comparing, and ordering objects
•Time
•Shapes and their attributes
•Graphing


Science

•We will explore and discuss weather patterns, seasons, the characteristics/basic needs of living things, investigation of light and sound, as well as magnet exploration


Social Studies

•We will discuss American folktales (John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Annie Oakley), historical figures and their contributions (Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington Carver), the location of continents, landforms, and oceans on a globe, goods and services, and producers and consumers