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1st grade week 1 out of 36

March 4, 2025

Print out this page. As you do the assignments, write down the day that you completed each assignment. This will be your attendance record. Also, you can use this to record your scores.

Monday

  • Math:
  • Science
    • This year you are going to read about Peter and Polly. Peter and Polly is a Series of stories create by Rose Lucia. Today you are going to meet them and learn about mammals. Throughout this year, you will read about them and then learn some science.
    • Lesson 1: Two Children and Their Pets
      • Read the story.
      • Study the vocabulary words located at the end of the story.
      • Peter, Polly, and all of their pets (cows, dogs, cats, horses) are mammals.
      • Facts about mammals:
        • They are warm-blooded. They stay warm even when their surroundings are cold.
        • They have a backbone (unlike worms).
        • They breathe with lungs (not with gills like a fish or through skin like worms).
        • They have hair or fur (not feathers like birds or scales like snakes).
        • Females usually give birth to live babies (not born from eggs like turtles).
        • Females feed babies their milk (unlike birds that feed babies food such as insects, worms, berries, and seeds).
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston  
      • Chapter 1: The First Governor in Boston
      • Read the story or listen to the lesson.
      • Study the vocabulary words. They are located at the end of the lesson.
      • Long ago, people from the continent of Europe traveled across a vast ocean to make their home in the land now known as the United States of America. People came from European countries including France, Spain, England, and Germany.
      • Use this map.
        • Find the United States.
        • Find Europe.
          • Zoom in on the map of Europe below and find France, Spain, England (UK), and Germany.
        • The settlers sailed from Europe to the United States in large ships. Find Europe and the United States on the world map below. Follow the red arrow and trace the path the settlers took.
  • Language Arts:
  • Art

Tuesday

  • Math:
  • Science
    • Draw a picture of mammals that would live on a farm. (dogs, cats, horses, cows)
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston     
    • Chapter 1: The First Governor in Boston
    • Act Out the Story
      • Imagine you are a hungry settler.
      • Pretend to go the beach and dig up some clams and mussels. Crack open their shells and pry out the soft flesh from inside. Pretend to cook and eat your clams and mussels.
      • As you eat the clams, the supply ship arrives. Hop up and down and cheer for the arrival of the ship.
  • Language Arts:
  • Music
    • Learn about the woodwind instruments.
      • read about the different instruments
      • listen to the different instruments.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

  • Math
  • Science
  • Social Studies
    • Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston     
    • Chapter 2: Marquette in Iowa
      • read the lesson and study the vocabulary words at the bottom.
      • Use this map.
        • The United States of America is divided into smaller regions called states. In the story, Marquette and Joliet traveled through the land that became the states of Wisconsin and Iowa.
        • Zoom in and find Wisconsin (WI) and Iowa (IA) on the map of the continental United States below. Do you live in or near these states?
  • Language arts:
  • Computer
    • Many of your lessons include internet links for to access. When visiting the designated web pages for your lessons, please refrain from clicking on anything other than what the instructions specify. Avoid clicking on advertisements, games, or any links that redirect you to other websites.
    • Turn on and off computer.
      • With your parents’ permission, turn your computer off and on. Ask how to do it properly.
      • You have to tell the computer to turn off. You do not just push the power button.
      • When the computer is off, there are no lights on the computer and it takes a while to turn it back on and get going again.
      • Your computer can also “sleep.”
      • We can let laptops (computers that you can hold on your lap) sleep by closing their lids.
      • When your computer is waiting too long for you to do something, it may go to sleep. Or it may have a moving picture of some sort come up on the screen. This is called a screensaver. It protects the computer screen, the part you are reading this on right now, from getting burned by having the same lights on it all the time.
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