McKinley Primary Center                    2016-17 / Quarter  1 / 1^st Grade: Teaching & Learning Plan
	Art	Music	Physical Education	Mathematics
Week 3 I can…	Discuss individual art experiences in daily life. Identify works of art and artifacts associated with customs, festivals, and celebrations.	Match simple pitch patterns in expanding ranges. Echo short melodic and rhythmic patterns.	Perform locomotor skills with developmentally appropriate challenges to reinforce learning of basic movements. Demonstrate fundamental movement vocabulary and cue words for learning skills.	Week 9 I can…	Count to at least 120 by ones, fives, and tens from any given number. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. Understand that 10 can be thought of as a group of ten ones — called a “ten." Understand that the numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones. Understand that the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones). Match the ordinal numbers first, second, third, etc., with an ordered set up to 10 items. Show equivalent forms of whole numbers as groups of tens and ones, and understand that the individual digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. Tell and write time to the nearest half-hour and relate time to events (before/after, shorter/longer) using analog clocks. Understand how to read hours and minutes using digital clocks. Find the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Week 6 I can…	Identify similar themes and subject matter in works of art and artifacts from various cultures. Respond to art based on personal preference and actively listen to others, recognizing that people have different preferences.	Respond to sung or played musical questions by singing and using body percussion, found items, and instrumental sounds. Independently create and perform short rhythmic and melodic patterns with teacher guidance using the voice, body percussion, found items, or classroom instruments.	Engage in health-related physical fitness activities or games during physical education class, recess, and/or or leisure time with one’s family and friends. Demonstrate how increasing the intensity of an activity will increase the heart rate.
				Science
				Week 3 I can…	Characterize materials as solid, liquid, or gas and investigate their properties, record observations and explain the choices to others based on evidence (i.e., physical properties). Predict and experiment with methods (sieving, evaporation) to separate solids and liquids based on their physical properties.
Week 9 I can…	Demonstrate thoughtfulness and care in creating artwork. Respect personal work and the work of others. Identify and use a balance of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media and processes to express ideas, experiences, and stories.	Read and perform simple four-beat patterns with quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests using rhythm syllables. Show changes in tempo, dynamics, and mood using movement in response to music.	Identify and demonstrate safety practices and personal responsibility during physical education class, recess and after school physical activities. Identify personal goals and demonstrate a willingness to achieve specific movement skills and physical fitness challenges.	Week 6 I can…	Observe and compare properties of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter. Look for evidence of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter as components of soil samples.
				Week 9 I can…	Observe a variety of soil samples and describe in words and pictures the soil properties in terms of color, particle size and shape, texture, and recognizable living and nonliving items.
				Social Studies
				Week 3 I can…	Develop a simple timeline of important events in the student’s life. Use the terms past and present; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and next week and last week to sequentially order events that have occurred in the school.
				Week 6 I can…	Compare the way individuals in the community lived in the past with the way they live in the present. Compare past and present similarities and differences in community life through different forms of media, biographies, oral histories, folklore, video images, etc.
				Week 9 I can…	Identify American songs and symbols and discuss their origins. Identify local people from the past who have shown honesty, courage and responsibility. Identify people and events observed in national celebrations and holidays.

Note: Each column uses different text styles (Regular, Italic, Bold, Underlined) to differentiate concepts.    Language Arts & Reading
1^st Grade – Reading Wonders, Unit 1               Big Idea:  Getting to Know Us                                             What makes you special?
	Weekly Concept & Essential Questions	Genres, Concepts of Print, Text Features	Comprehension: Skills, Strategies & Fluency	Phonics: Awareness, Spelling Skill, Structural Analysis	Vocabulary: Academic, High-Frequency, Oral, & Domain	Writing: Trait, Product, About Reading	Grammar: Skill & Mechanics	Research & Inquiry
1-1.1	At School What do you do at school?	Realistic Fiction, Nonfiction Book Handling Photographs	Visualize Key Details Appropriate Phrasing	Identify Rhyme, Phoneme: Isolation, Blending, Segmentation short a  Consonants reviewed throughout Unit 1 s (inflectional ending)	events, illustrations, punctuation does, not, school, what learn, subjects, common, object, recognize rules, obey, safety	Ideas: Focus on a Single Event Personal Narrative Analyze Key Details	Sentences Sentence Capitalization	Weekly: What kinds of activities do we do at school?
1-1.2	Where I Live What is it like where you live?	Realistic Fiction, Fable, Fantasy, Nonfiction Book Handling Bold print	Visualize Key Details Intonation	Alliteration, Phoneme: Categorization, Blending, Segmentation short i double final consonants	author, bold print, sequence down, out, up, very city country, bored, feast, scurried building, yard, playground	Ideas: Describing Details Descriptive Sentences About a Place Analyze Key Details	Word Order Sentence Punctuation (periods)	Weekly: How are places in our community similar to, or different from, places in other communities?
1-1.3	Our Pets What makes a pet special?	Fiction, Nonfiction, Fantasy Track Print and Return Sweep Labels	Visualize Key Details Appropriate Phrasing	Contrast Vowel Sounds,  Phoneme:  Blending, Substitution, Segmentation beginning consonant blends: l-blends s (plural nouns)	consonant, label, publish be, come, good, pull care, train, groom, companion, popular living things, need, cares	Ideas: Describing Details Descriptive Sentences About an Animal Analyze Key Details	Statements Capitalization and Punctuation (periods)	Weekly: What are the ways to care for pets?
1-1.4	Let’s Be Friends What do friends do together?	Nonfiction, Poetry Book Handling Labels	Ask and Answer Questions Key Details Appropriate Phrasing	Phoneme: Categorization, Blending, Segmentation, Deletion, Rhyme short o alphabetical order (one letter)	evaluate, rhyme fun, make, they, too cooperate, relationship, deliver, chore, collect poem	Organization: Compare and Contrast Personal Narrative Analyze Key Details	Questions and Exclamations Question and Exclamation Marks	Weekly: What can we learn about our favorite games or sports?
1-1.5	Let’s Move! How does your body move?	Nonfiction, Folktale Special Text Treatments Diagram	Ask and Answer Questions Key Details Appropriate Phrasing	Phoneme: Categorization, Segmentation, Deletion, Blending Beginning consonant blends: r-blends; s-blends possessives	diagram, first, last, next jump, move, run, two physical, exercise, agree, exhausted, difficult	Organization: Order of Events Personal Narrative Analyze Key Details	Writing Sentences Capitalization and Punctuation (periods, question and exclamation marks)	Weekly: How does the human body move?
1-1.6	Unit Level:          Research Skill: Selecting a Topic          Unit Project: Self-select and develop from weekly research projects.

McKinley Primary Center                    2016-17 / Quarter 1 / 1^st Grade: Teaching & Learning Plan