Grade 1 Classroom

About

After completing a 15-year educational journey across the state, Rebecca “Becca” Henry has finally returned to her roots! As a proud alumnus of Lincoln Community School, she is thrilled to be teaching first grade at LCS. Becca and her family live on the South Lincoln homestead where she grew up, and she is committed to creating a more sustainable lifestyle. In her free time, Becca enjoys hiking, kayaking, gardening, camping, and making art with her family, which includes her three children (two young ones and one adult), her husband, and their dog, Jillaroo.

Classroom Resources:

Rebecca “Becca” Henry

rhenry@lincolnsd.org

Curriculum

Theme

Year One

  • Bees (Life Science)/Light and Sound Waves (Physical Science)

  • States of Matter (physical science)

  • Geography

  • Schools Past and Present

  • Plant Study - From Seed to Flower (life science)

Year Two

  • Life Science

  • Earth Science

  • River and Erosion

  • Moon and Sun, Planets

  • Physical Science

  • Geography and Economics: 

  • Wonders of Lincoln

Essential Question: Where am I?

Literacy

Reading

  • Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Isolation, Segmenting, Manipulation, Phoneme Addition, Phoneme Deletion, Phoneme Substitution

  • Alphabetic Principle: Alphabetic Order

  • Phonics Knowledge: Short Vowels, Digraphs, Consonant Clusters, Bonus Letters, Glued Sounds, Suffixes (-s, -ed, -ing), v-e, Multisyllabic Words

  • Decoding Skills: One and two syllables words (closed and v-e)

  • Recognition of Words at Sight: First 100 Fry

  • Read Aloud and Comprehension Skills: 

Writing

  • Handwriting: lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers

  • Sentence construction: Capitals, Punctuation, Subject and Predicate (complete thought)

  • Journaling: Descriptive/Reflective Writing

  • Small Moment Stories: Narrative Writing

  • Basic Paragraph: Opinion and Informative Writing

Math

  • Counting & Cardinality: counting/writing numbers up to 200

  • Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Fluency- Adding and Subtracting within 20; Relationship between Addition and Subtraction; Representing and Solving Word Problems

  • Numbers and Operations in Base Ten: Extend the Counting Sequence (within 120); Place Value- Ones, Tens and Hundreds;  Applying place Value and Properties of Operations to Add and Subtract.

  • Measurement & Data: Measuring objects with Non-standard Units; Telling and Writing Time to the Nearest ½ Hour; Representing and Interpreting Data

  • Geometry: Shape Identification and Attributes