Some Important Dates!

Mark Your Calendars!

A Writers' Celebration

Thursday, November 13th

11:00-11:30

(right before our annual Thanksgiving lunch)

As you know, the children have been very busy writing Small Moment stories.  We will be finishing up this unit soon.  To celebrate, we would like to invite families as our writers share their finished books.  We hope to see you there!

Ms Coulombe will be at a Beth Moore workshop Friday, October 31st to learn more about teaching writing!

A Trip to the Flynn Theater!

On Tuesday, November 18th, the Kindergarten and 1-2 classes will travel to the Flynn Theater in Burlington to see the performance Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse.   Due to limited seating, we are not be able to have parent chaperones for this trip.  Be on the look out for the permission slip soon!

Social Studies

Our Community

Our Classroom Community
works together to create.

We have finished up our unit on Life Cycles and Organisms.  We are beginning our first Social Studies unit, Our Community.  We will learn that there are many different types of communities but that a community  is a group of people that have something in common, work together, have similar needs, or live in the same location.  As a class we will be exploring and identifying what makes Underhill-Jericho a special community as well as identifying other communities, such as our family, school, scouts,  that we may be a part of and the importance of different roles within a community.  We will also learn beginning map skills.  Please follow this link for more information about this unit.  

Our classroom community
 works together to create.

My favorite Picture from recess

First and Second Grade Curriculum Summary

Grade 1-2 Reading and Writing

In our work with students,we help them become readers and writers in the fullest sense. In this unit, we will be establishing student habits as readers and writers and teach them to use a whole repertoire of strategies to read, write, and comprehend text. We will also be setting up the structure and expectations for a balanced literacy program that includes read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading. In this unit children produce small moment stories and move with independence through the writing process by sketching, writing, revising, and editing.  In this unit writers work towards writing narratives in which they recount 2 or more sequenced events, including details, using temporal words to signal event order and to provide some sense of closure. Children work in partnerships to respond to questions and comments from peers to add details to their writing. This unit should take from 5-6 weeks.

Math

Grade 1  Unit 1 Students will learn, practice and know... How to use strategies to accurately count a set of objects by 1s. The relationships between and among numbers including understanding the magnitude and position of numbers on a number line. How to compose numbers up to 10 with 2 addends How to make sense of and develop strategies to solve addition problems with small numbers How to use manipulatives, drawings, tools, and notation to show strategies and solutions. Grade 2  Unit 1   How to use strategies for accurately counting a set of objects by ones and groups. The magnitude and sequence of numbers up to 120. How to make sense of and develop strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with totals up to 45. How to use manipulatives, drawings, tools, and notation to show strategies and solutions Addition combinations to 10 + 10. Understand what it means to double a quantity. Demonstrate fluency with the Plus 1, Plus 2, and Make 10 addition combinations. Have at least one strategy for solving addition and subtraction (as removal) story problems. Interpret addition and subtraction story problems (read a story problem and determine what needs to be figured out). Determine the difference between two numbers (up to 45) Count a set of objects up to 60 in at least one way. Science Organisms The focus of this unit is to observe and collect data on the changes that happen in life cycles, and then record that information accurately with pictures (scientific representations) and words (labels). The focus should guide students to understand that ALL organisms have a life cycle (even the ones that don't go through metamorphosis) and the female adult organisms reproduce and die. The cycle begins again with a NEW organism (the baby). For additional Grade 1 and Grade 2 Curriculum Information, click on the link below. CESU K-12 Curriculum