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First Grade

Grade Level Theme: Family

Concept 1: Family/ Home
Enduring Understandings:
 There are many kinds of families
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 Every family is unique.

 Members of families are special individuals.

 Families are related to each other in meaningful ways.

 Families change over time, yet remain connected.

Concept 2: Imagination
Enduring Understandings:
Imagination is born out of past experiences.

Similar ideas arise across times and cultures in different expressions.

Imagination can be used to solve problems in a unique, original fashion.

Imagination can be used to create things beyond perceivable reality.

Concept 3: Cycles
Enduring Understandings:
Cycles can be represented.

Cycles happen again over and over without end.

All things are part of some cycle

Living organisms usually go through predictable phases of life.

ABC Genre Study
Personal Narrative
Readers Workshop
Writers Workshop

Homes:
Philipsburg Manor Field Trip

Hangul Nal _ Alphabet Day
Family Recipes
Monarch Butterflies
Day of the Dead
Family Concert
Family Museum

Imagination:
Fairy Tale Study – Tales of Three
Silk worms/Textiles
Readers Theater

Cycles:
Brooklyn Botanical Garden – Cherry Blossom
Carnaval
Nature Walks
100th day of school
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