Ruomu Wang
First Grade
Second Trimester 2020-2021
Chinese Language Arts
- Literacy Skills:
- Identify and analyze authors’ purpose
- Identify the sequence of events
- Identify cause and effect
- Identify the main idea and details
- Listening Comprehension Skills:
- Identify the general topic and some basic information in very familiar contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken or signed, e.g.:
- follow directions to fill out a simple graphic organizer
- understand the names of the planets in a science class
- recognize some weather expressions in a forecast
- identify some phrases from a read aloud story
- recognize some events from a cartoon
- understand simple instructions given by the teacher
- understand the difference between a spoken statement and question in people’s conversations
- Identify the general topic and some basic information in very familiar contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken or signed, e.g.:
- Interpersonal Speaking Skills:
- Request and provide information by asking and answering a few simple questions on very familiar and everyday topics, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences, e.g.:
- ask who, what, where, or when questions
- respond to a math question reciting a simple mathematical operation
- interact with a partner to complete a “fill-in-the-blank” worksheet
- Express basic needs related to familiar and everyday activities, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and questions, e.g.:
- introduce someone else and ask related questions
- ask and answer questions about homework
- Express own preferences or feelings and react to those of others, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and questions, e.g.:
- exchange preferences
- add to a conversation
- Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and participate by actively listening, taking turns, and staying on topic
- Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges
- Ask questions to clear up any confusion about topics and texts under discussion
- Reading Comprehension Skills:
- Identify some basic facts from memorized words and phrases when they are supported by gestures or visuals in informational and fiction texts, e.g.:
- identify nutritional categories on food labels
- identify names of classes and their locations on a class schedule
- understand subject-specific terms on a word wall
- recognize whether a correspondence is formal or informal
- identify some phrases describing a character in a story
- recognize a familiar memorized line from a poem
- recognize some events from a story timeline
- recognize a song’s common one-line refrain
- Presentational Writing Skills:
- Present information about self, interests and activities using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases and simple sentences, e.g.:
- write the physical or personality traits of a character in a book
- Present on very familiar and everyday topics using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases and simple sentences, e.g.:
- write some simple information about the classroom or school
- write some simple details about animals, foods, historical figures, or sports based on pictures or photos
- Create or utilize existing visual displays to support descriptions to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings
- Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, using complete sentences when appropriate to task, situation, and audience
- Intercultural Communication Skills:
- Identify some typical products and practices related to familiar everyday life
- Communicate with others from the target culture in familiar everyday situations, using memorized language and showing basic cultural awareness
- Use appropriate rehearsed behaviors and recognize some obviously inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations
Math
- Place value to 100
- Extending addition and subtraction facts
- Addition: two-digit numbers
- Subtraction: two-digit numbers
- Geometry
- Data and Graphs
Science
- Project-based learning: Plants
- Winter Animals/Spring Animals
- Hibernation
- Habitats
- Weather
- Earth Day
- How Things are Made
- Pushes and Pulls
Social Studies
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- New Year and Lunar New Year
- Winter in Our Community
- Read Across America
- Presidents’ Day
- Black History Month
- Saint Patrick’s Day
- Our World: Oceans and Continents
- Caring for our Natural Resources
- Being Good Citizens
Religion
- Christmas
- Easter
- The Lord Prayer in Chinese
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