~   My Town Is Important 2003-2004 ~

Georgia Cloer's First Grade
Mitchell Road School
Greenville, South Carolina
School Website

It is an urban place to live. We do not go to school in the city limits. Some of us live in the city limits but most of us live outside the city limits.

We read The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. We brainstormed all the important things about Greenville. Then we wrote our verses to our book. We bound the pages to make a book about Greenville. We e-mailed our school superintendent our story. He liked it so much he wants to come listen to us read our story.

* You can find out more about
Greenville, SC.

We have a page on our class website that will soon have pictures of Greenville that we drew.
Come visit our class website.

Reading
*Read familiar stories aloud easily and with expression.
*Make predictions about what he/she thinks will happen in the story.
*Ask and answer questions about what is read.
*Know the difference between real and make-believe.
*Understand that events in the story are the result of causes and effects.
*Point out and discuss times, places and customs in different stories.
*Identify and discuss the main ideas and/or themes in stories and compare them to   experiences that he/she has had.
*Write about what he/she has read.
*Organize information from a story in a chart or diagram.
*Read for an extended period of time.

Listening
*Pay attention to the person speaking.
*Listen politely and not interrupt.
*Ask questions about what he/she hears.

Speaking
*Tell and retell stories in the order in which events happened.
*Speak in complete sentences.
*Use describing words in speaking.
*Begin to ask about the meaning of words and ideas.

Writing
*Think of ideas to write about.
*Decide and stay on one subject when writing.
*Use describing words when writing about people, places and things.
*Edit (correct) writing for grammar, capital letters, punctuation and spelling (according to what first graders have learned).
*Use complete and correct sentences in final copies.
*Spell frequently used words correctly and spell difficult words using rules of phonetics.
*Print legibly with attention to forming letters correctly while leaving spaces between words.
*Create final copies of writing such as stories, poems, plays, newspapers, etc., and share with others.
*Write for a period of time each day.

Research
*Talk about and use information from observations, conversations, technology and books to make oral and written stories and reports.

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My Town Is Important 2003-2004