First Grade
Welcome to First Grade
First Grade, where fun and learning go hand in hand!
Curriculum
What will my student learn in first grade?
Scholar Coach Program
Your child’s classroom will have a Scholar Coach working alongside their teacher this year. Scholar Coaches provide 1:1 tutoring for K-3 students in reading skills. This tutoring may be provided virtually or in person depending on the current status of the SPPS district. Scholar Coaches are part of the AmeriCorps network of service and Reading Corps.
In addition to 1:1 reading tutoring, Scholar Coaches also support core instruction and social emotional learning in their classrooms. Examples of what support a Scholar Coach might provide are Read-A-Louds, math help, writing assistance, and small group or class-wide phonics interventions as well as participation in the classroom community though classroom meetings.
We are excited to offer the Scholar Coach program at Benjamin Mays and look forward to this partnership with families, students and teachers.
Learning at Home
Mays Family Days - Math, Reading, Writing support/resources for learning at home
Homework Policy
Students are expected to read 30 minutes a day at home. This can be done on their own or they can read to an adult as needed.
We will send out two pages of homework on Thursdays in our take-home folder. One page will be on sight words and reading skills that we are working on during that week. Please save the sight word list and work on one word a day as needed and move up each week. If a student does not know the words from the previous week, please continue on working on those words before moving on to the new list of words.
The second page will cover any math skills we learned in class or skills from kindergarten that students might still struggle with.