COMPLETE GRADE 1 COMPLETE YEAR GRADE YEAR Weekly Learning Activities 1 Weekly Learning Activities COMPLETE YEAR Weekly Learning Activities Complete Year is the complete solution to your child’s academic success! This comprehensive workbook includes all the resources you need to support your child’s learning throughout the school year. Short, weekly activities help your child practice and review essential skills. Weekly Find these features inside: activities to Thirty-six weekly lessons—one for each week of the school year! support your Each lesson supports multiple subject areas, including reading, writing, language child’s learning arts, and math, for complete practice and review. all school Practice activities for first grade students include these skills and more: year long consonant and vowel sounds • verb tenses • alphabetical order • synonyms and antonyms • punctuation • addition and subtraction • word problems • patterns • place value • telling time • measurement • graphing Parent-friendly organizers so you can monitor your child’s progress! Keep track of the academic skills your child is learning this year.
Creative suggestions for helping your child learn at home! Find ideas for hands-on math, science and social studies projects, outdoor activities, reading and writing extensions, fine motor and gross motor development, building basic skills, and more.com for FREE activities! THINKING KIDSTM Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC P. B ox 3 5 6 6 5 • Greensboro, NC 2 7 4 2 5 U S A www.com CD-704454CO.indd 1 4/9/14 2:04 PM GRADE COMPLETE 1 YEAR Weekly Learning Activities Thinking Kids™ Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC Greensboro, North Carolina CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 1 4/9/14 9:14 AM Thinking Kids™ An imprint of Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC P. Box 35665 Greensboro, NC 27425 USA © 2014 Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or distributed in any form or by any means (mechanically, electronically, recording, etc.) without the prior written consent of Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC.
Thinking Kids™ is an imprint of Carson-Dellosa Publishing LLC. ISBN 978-1-4838-1279-3 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 2 4/9/14 9:23 AM Table of Contents Introduction to Complete Year: Grade 1. 6 Suggested Complete Year Calendar. 7 A Guide to School Skills for First Grade: Basic Skills, Reading and Language Arts, Math, Gross and Fine Motor Skills, Science, and Social Studies.
8 First Quarter Introduction. 98 First Quarter Check-Up. 107 Second Quarter Introduction. 132 3 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 3 4/9/14 9:14 AM Table of Contents Week 13 Skills.
192 Second Quarter Check-Up. 201 Third Quarter Introduction. 276 4 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 4 4/9/14 9:14 AM Table of Contents Week 27 Skills. 286 Third Quarter Check-Up.
295 Fourth Quarter Introduction. 380 Fourth Quarter Check-Up. 395 5 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 5 4/9/14 9:14 AM Introduction to Complete Year: Grade 1 The Complete Year series has been designed by educators to provide an entire school year’s worth of practice pages, teaching suggestions, and multi-sensory activities to support your child’s learning at home. Handy organizers are included to help students and parents stay on track and to let you see at a glance the important skills for each quarter and each week of the academic year.
A variety of resources are included to help you provide high-quality learning experiences during this important year of your child’s development. Suggested Calendar (Page 7) Use this recommended timetable to plan learning activities for your child during all 36 weeks of the school year. A Guide to School Skills and Subject Areas for First Grade: Basic Skills, Reading and Language Arts, Math, Gross and Fine Motor Skills, Science, and Social Studies (Page 8) Refer to this useful guide for information about what your child will be learning this school year, what to expect from your first grader, and how to help your child develop skills in each subject area. Quarter Introductions (Pages 14, 108, 202, 296) Four brief introductions outline the skills covered in practice pages for each nine-week grading period of the school year.
In addition, they include a variety of ideas for multi-sensory learning activities in each subject area. These active, hands-on projects are fun for parents and children to do together and emphasize real-world applications for school skills. Weekly Skill Summaries (Example: Page 17) Thirty-six handy charts precede the practice pages for each week and give a snapshot of the skills covered. In addition, they provide ideas for fun, multi- sensory learning activities for each subject area.
Practice Pages (Example: Page 18) Nine practice pages are provided each week for a total of over 300 skill- building activities to help your child succeed this year. Quarter Check-Ups (Pages 107, 201, 295, 389) Four informal assessment pages allow students to do a quick self-check of the important skills emphasized during the previous nine weeks. Parents can use these pages to see at a glance the skills their children have mastered. 6 COMPLETE YEAR GRADE 1 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 6 4/9/14 9:14 AM Suggested Complete Year Calendar* During Each Nine-Week Quarter: First Quarter: Weeks 1–9 • Read the Quarter Introduction to (First nine-week grading period of the get an overview of the skills and school year, usually August–October) subject areas emphasized.
Choose several multi-sensory learning activities you plan to do with your Second Quarter: Weeks 10–18 child this quarter. (Second nine-week grading period of the school year, usually October– • Each week, glance at the Weekly December) Skill Summary to see targeted skills. Make a quick plan for the practice pages and multi-sensory learning activities your child will complete. Third Quarter: Weeks 19–27 • Choose Practice Pages that (Third nine-week grading period of the emphasize skills your child needs to school year, usually January–March) work on.
Each page should take 10 minutes or less to complete. • Ask your child to check the boxes on the Quarter Check-Up to show Fourth Quarter: Weeks 28–36 what skills he or she has mastered. (Fourth nine-week grading period of the Praise your child’s progress and take school year, usually April–June) note of what he or she still needs to work on. * This calendar provides a schedule for using Complete Year during a typical nine- month academic calendar.
If your child attends a year-round school or a school with a different schedule, you can easily adapt this calendar by counting the weeks your child attends school and dividing by four. COMPLETE YEAR GRADE 1 7 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 7 4/9/14 9:14 AM A Guide to School Skills for First Grade This guide provides background information about the skills and subject areas that are important for success in first grade. Tips are provided for helping your child develop in each curricular area. Complete Year supports skills included in the Grade 1 Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, which have been adopted by most U.
A complete guide to these standards may be found at www. In addition, activities in Complete Year support gross motor development and fine motor development, which are essential to a young child’s ability to complete schoolwork and regulate behavior. Basic Skills • Classifying Organizing objects into categories can be done in many ways. For example, have your child group a set of objects by color, size, pattern, purpose, or other attribute.
• Critical Thinking Young children love riddles, jokes, and tongue twisters. Use these word games to develop your child’s thinking skills. Critical thinking can be encouraged in many ways. Try asking your child to create a new ending to a common story or have him or her be the “teacher” and ask you questions about a story you read together.
• Compare and Contrast Help foster your child’s ability to observe similarities and differences among objects. Begin with obvious similarities and differences in color, size, and shape, and advance to more subtle similarities and differences in pattern, texture, purpose, etc. Reading and Language Arts Reading Teach reading with books that fit your child’s ability and interests, using a variety of books. Before asking your child to read a book 8 COMPLETE YEAR GRADE 1 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 8 4/9/14 9:14 AM independently, activate your child’s prior knowledge of the book’s subject.
Then, read the book aloud and discuss the story elements. For example, discuss the stages of a butterfly’s life cycle and what caterpillars eat before reading Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Provide books that your child can read independently the first time, while also reading books aloud that are at a higher level than your child’s independent reading level. • Word Recognition When encountering a new word, encourage your child to use three different cues: think about the context (meaning), analyze the sense of the sentence (syntax), and/or sound the word out phonetically.
After reading a book, make flash cards of words that your child needs to practice. Maintain a word bank of words that your child is learning. Keep a separate bank of learned words to be reviewed periodically. • Phonics Look for opportunities to teach the following skills in context: beginning, middle, and ending sounds; blends and digraphs, like train or ship; rhyming words; and vowel sound families.
Make charts to hang around the room for each vowel sound, and add words as your child encounters them in the books he or she reads. He or she will also study syllables and how to recognize the number of syllables when words are spoken aloud. • Reading Comprehension Read to and with your child every day. Build a love of reading through positive experiences with books.
A child who loves reading will be a more successful reader. Read a variety of books aloud, and let your child choose books that interest him or her to read independently. See page 394 for a list of books that may appeal to first graders. The goal of reading is to acquire meaning from text.
After reading a book, ask your child a variety of questions to test comprehension, such as “Explain what the character meant by …” or “Make a timeline of events in the story.” Ask questions related to context clues to test your child’s comprehension of information that is not overtly given and must be inferred. Language Skills Language skills are often taught in the context of reading. Your child may be asked to apply knowledge gained from reading to the study COMPLETE YEAR GRADE 1 9 CD-704454 CompleteYr1Sec1.indd 9 4/9/14 9:14 AM A Guide to School Skills for First Grade, cont. of words, sentences, and texts.
When reading aloud to your child, take the opportunity to point to individual words, sentences, and punctuation marks on the page and talk about them. This will give your child a deeper understanding of how language works. • Vocabulary Development Have your child write stories, in his or her own words, to be used as his or her reading text. This low-risk writing experience builds proficiency with language, and it helps him or her make the connection between the spoken and written word.
Because this writing is in your child’s own words, he or she will feel successful in reading at a very early stage. That confidence will help him or her be a successful reader of other printed materials. • Types of Words and Sentences This year, your child will learn to recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence, such as capitalization, commas, and ending punctuation to indicate statements and questions. Your child will build upon his or her knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives by diving into proper nouns, pronouns, plural nouns, and present- and past-tense verbs.
He or she will also study contractions, like don’t or I’m; compound words, like mailbox or backpack; possessives; and common prefixes and word endings. Writing In first grade, your child’s writing will progress into full paragraphs of complete thoughts and conclusions. He or she will write to tell stories and share information. Learning to write is a process developed much like learning to speak.
Provide your child with modeling and reasons to write, and applaud his or her attempts.