August: Kindness kickoff! We believe developing skills around kindness will help build a strong foundation for a great school year! 

-What does it mean to be kind? 

Parent Letter-September

Visit the 1st Grade Summer Smore for more information about what is to come in 1st Grade!

PACE Referral Information:

The 2024-2025 referral window is now open. All referrals are due by October 11th. 

 

Questions?  Contact our campus Gifted Specialist, Amy Moore, at amy.moore3@pisd.edu.

Information: https://www.pisd.edu/giftededucation 

 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS are the state standards for Texas public schools from kindergarten to year 12. They detail the curriculum requirements for each subject area. Click on the link below to explore these standards. 

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills 

Literacy

Students will understand that …

EU1 Language is written and printed in an organized manner.

EU2 Words and images impact meaning.

EU3 Effective readers apply the relationship between letters and sounds, and spelling patterns to decode language.

EU4 A writer's purpose, audience, and text structure shape the style, development, and organization of reading and writing

Students will be skilled at:

1) make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other text, and society

2) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding

3) describe plot elements, including the main event, problem and solution

4) recognize characters

5) recognize the central idea and supporting details

6) re-tell stories in many ways

7)  use text evidence to support

8) discuss author's purpose

Inquiry and Innovation 

Students will understand that …

U1  Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.  

U2 Creative thinking allows individuals to develop new or innovative ideas and challenge norms or current ways of thinking.

U3 Unlearning is difficult, but helps us build adaptability skills. 

U4 Responsible risks can be rewarding. 

U5 “What if” questions cause us to think in ways that promote adaptability.

Students will keep considering... 

EQ1: What patterns exist in our world?

EQ2: How can we best understand the world around us?

EQ3: Why should innovators always keep wondering and learning?

Math 

Students will understand that…

U1 There are many ways to represent a quantity, but the best way is based on the problem in front of you.

U2 Objects, pictures, and numbers can be used to represent problem situations.

U3 There are multiple strategies and methods for finding an accurate mathematical solution.

U4 The relationship among operations and their properties increases flexibility as mathematicians.

U5 Our number system is based on patterns of ten.

Students will be skilled at …

1) explain strategies used to solve addition and subtraction problems up to 20

2) represent word problems

3) understand the equal sign

4) apply properties of operations to add and subtract two or three numbers

Texas weather is very unpredictable. During the school day we may experience extreme heat, rain, hail, or even snow. If bad weather arrives, the students stay indoors during recess.

Please send a “rainy day bag” to keep your child entertained in the classroom during this time. You may include various materials such as art supplies, workbooks, playing cards, and travel games (not full size board games). Please put these items in a Ziploc baggie no larger than gallon size with your child’s name clearly marked on the front. Keep the bag in your child's backpack for those rainy days. 

Come follow all of our First Grade fun! We are only allowing parents to follow our page. If you have an Instagram page, please send your child's teacher an email with your username so we can identify you after you request access to our private page. The First Grade page is called "Hedgcoxe2036" and we can't wait for you to see the pictures that we post on our page! 

 Instagram Username: Hedgcoxe2036

Digital Home Access

Continuing your learning at home... students may access their webdesk apps from home. Students will need their school login and password.

Webdesk

Please contact your child's teacher if you are not able to log on. 

This will provide access to:

• Math - Dreambox, ABCya, math online 
• Language Arts: ABCya, HMH
• Social Studies: Pebble go and much more!