1st grade September/October Learning Calendar (week of September 28 – October 2) We read and play every day! "Play is the highest form of research” - Albert Einstein • This week our learning calendar focuses on retelling stories, expressing ourselves in our writing, and seeing numbers in the natural world! • Children anchor much of their learning about early literacy skills and social emotional development to names. A child’s name is often the first word they can read independently. It is a piece of literacy that they own! • Throughout the week, if your child would like to share anything with their teacher, please take a picture for sharing! If you have questions or concerns about this calendar, please raise them with their teacher during your weekly meeting. We are committed to making this a successful first grade experience!

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28 29 30 1 2 Take turns talking at Create a store: make a store with Go on a scavenger hunt in your It is the 1st day of October! Talent Show: breakfast/lunch/dinner. Practice things from your home! Create home. Collect 10 things that make Go for a walk outside, looking for Draw a picture of yourself doing taking turns talking about your day. labels, menus, and other things you you feel happy 😊! signs of the natural world. Collect something you are good at. Practice holding your thoughts in would see in a store. What problems signs of nature. These could be Plan out a show to share this talent your head while someone else did you have while making the leaves, seeds, petals, tree bark, (think about what you will wear, finishes their thoughts. How do you store? How did you solve those Search your home for the letters in ferns, etc. What do you notice? what the background will look like, feel when you are waiting for your problems? Make $1 dollar bills for the alphabet. Write the letters on What changes do you see from and what exactly you will do). turn? If it feels hard to be a listener, your store. your whiteboard. Circle the letters summer? Practice your show! talk about ways to help yourself. you find that are in your name. Sort the nature treasures you found. This week, when you are reading How can you sort them? Are some your books, retell the story with of these treasures hard? Are there Under the picture you drew, write someone. Make sure to include what soft treasures? Brittle? Sharp? about what you did in your talent happened in the beginning, the show or you can write about middle, and the end. If you read a something else. You can teach your Mystery Sound Box/Bag: Put some talent to a friend. You can give them non-fiction book, talk about 3 things objects in a box or bag, such as a Pretend you are a scientist writing tips for how they can be good at it you learned from the pictures fork, doll, book, and toothbrush. about your observations. Write 1-2 too. and/or the words. Reach inside the box and remove an Numbers Scavenger Hunt: sentences describing what you saw,

object. Make the first sound in the Find 1 stuffed animal what you touched and what you At your next meal, pick something smelled. How did you keep track of your math object’s names, such as “b” for Find 2 doors on your plate to be the food you use “book.” Repeat until you have pulled learning days? Count how many days Find 3 pillows for counting bites. Count how many you grew your math brain and bites it takes you to eat it. You can out every object. Try this again, but Find 4 spoons When you are done, make a celebrate with that many star jumps! use tally marks or use objects from now make the last sound in the Find 6 books bracelet using tape: Loosely wrap a Congratulations! your math materials to help you object’s name, such as “k” for Find 7 shoes piece of tape around your wrist with keep track. Challenge: make a “book.” Find 8 toys the sticky side facing away from prediction before you start. Were Find 9 pennies your skin. Secure the ends together you close? Play the Hiding game Find 10 crayons to form a bracelet.

1. Ask your child to place 5/6 How many items did you find in all?

objects in your hand (buttons, coins, beads) 2. Hide some of the objects in one hand Sort your items

3. Show the remaining objects

in the other hand and ask

your child to tell you how many objects are hiding 4. Repeat for all the combinations of 5 5. Switch places and have your child hide them for you.