Katie Robertson

First Grade Teacher

(423) 623-3811 ext. 319

Courses Taught:

First Grade General Education

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Bio

I am one of the first grade teachers here at Newport Grammar School. I went to NGS K-8 and Cocke County High School 9-12. I graduated from Carson-Newman University with my Bachelors in Education (K-6) and Cumberland University with my Masters of Arts in Education. I have been teaching for 13 years. This is my sixth year teaching at Newport Grammar School. My husband's name is Chris and we have two sons, Shane (age 8) and Theo (age 6),

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Starting 1st Grade- What You Need to Know

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SPELLING CHOICE BOARD

Here's what we're learning right now...

Math

These are the TN standards we are currently covering in our curriculum:

2nd Quarter iReady Math Skills:

iReady Unit 1: Numbers within 10

10/14/24 Lesson 6: Count On to Subtract

10/21/24 Lesson 7: Add & Subtract in Word Problems

10/28/24 Lesson 8: Subtract to Compare in Word Problems

11/4/24 Lesson 9: Understand True and False Equations

11/11/24 Lesson 10: Use Strategies for Addition & Subtraction Facts; Unit 1 Test

iReady Unit 2: Numbers within 20, Addition and Subtraction and Representing Data

11/18/24 Lesson 11: Understand Teen Numbers

12/2/24 Lesson 12: Make a Ten to Add

12/9/24 Lesson 13: Totals Greater than 10

12/16/24 Lesson 14: Add Three Numbers; Mid-Unit 2 Assessment

1/6/24 Lesson 15: Make a Ten to Subtract

2nd Quarter Wonders ELA Skills:

WRITING FOCUS: Informational Pieces

SS/Science Unit:  Citizenship & Change Over Time Social Studies Units

Wonders Unit 2 Essential Questions:

10/14/24 → Week 1 Story → “The Red Hat"

What jobs need to be done in a community?

What are nouns?

How can I identify the subject and predicate in a sentence?

Reading Skills: Character, Setting, Events; Problem and Solution

Spelling Pattern: Short e words

CONNECTED STANDARDS: SOCIAL STUDIES

1.15 Identify the Governor and President and explain their roles.

1.17 Distinguish the differences between rules and laws and give examples of each.

1.18 Define citizenship, and recognize traits of good citizens, such as respecting the rights of others, voting, following laws, etc.

1.19 Explain that voting is a way of making choices and decisions.

10/21/24 → Week 2 Story → The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud

What buildings do you know? What are they made of?

How can I identify the subject and predicate in a sentence?

What are contractions?

Reading Skills: Character, Setting, Events

Spelling Pattern: un, ut, ug word families

10/28/24 → Week 3 Story → At a Pond

Where do animals live together? What are possessive nouns?

Reading Skills: Main Idea and Key Details

Spelling Pattern: nd, sk, nk word families

11/4/24 → Week 4 Story → Nell’s Books

How do people help out in a community?

What are the elements of fiction, especially fantasies?

What are nouns, esp. common and proper nouns?

What are syllables?

Reading Skills: Visualize, Key Details, Plot

Spelling Pattern: th, sh, ng word families

11/11/24 → Week 5 Story → Follow the Map

How can you find your way around? What are plural nouns? 

How should you add -s or -es to a word to make it plural?

Reading Skills: Ask & Answer Questions, Character, Setting, Problem and Solution

Spelling Pattern: ch, tch, wh, ph word families

Wonders Unit 3 Essential Questions: 

11/18/24 → Week 1 Story → On My Way to School

How do we measure time?

What is a fantasy? What is an onomatopoeia? What is plot? 

How can I make and confirm predictions? 

Reading Skills: Character, Setting, Plot

Spelling Pattern: Long a: a, a_e

12/2/24 → Week 2 Story → The Big Yuca Plant

How do plants change as they grow?

What is a fantasy? What is a play? 

How can I make and confirm predictions? 

Reading Skills: Plot Sequence

Spelling Pattern: Long i: i_e

Science Standards 

1.LS1.1 Recognize the structure of plants (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) and describe the function of the parts (taking in water and air, producing food, making new plants).

1.LS1.2 Illustrate and summarize the life cycle of plants.

12/9/24 → Week 3 Story → The Gingerbread Man

What is a folktale? What is a verb? What is subject-verb agreement?

What is past tense? What is future tense?

How can I use commas correctly?

Reading Skills: Plot, Cause/Effect, Dictionary Skills

Spelling Pattern: Soft c and g

1/6/24 → Week 4 Story → Long Ago & Now

How is life different than it was long ago?

What are facts and opinions? What is nonfiction?

How do I add commas in dates? How do I correctly use is and are?

Reading Skills: Connections within Text: Compare & Contrast

Spelling Pattern: Long o: o_e; Long u: u_e; Long e: e_e

CONNECTED STANDARDS: SOCIAL STUDIES

1.22 Arrange the events from a student’s life in chronological order.

1.23 Use correct words and phrases related to chronology and time, including: past, present, and future. 1.24 Interpret information from simple timelines.

1.25 Compare ways people lived in the past to how they live today, including: forms of communication, modes of transportation, and types of clothing.

SSP.04 Communicate ideas supported by evidence to illustrate cause and effect.

SSP.05 Develop historical awareness by sequencing past, present, and future in chronological order; and understanding that things change over time.

12/16/24 → Week 5 Story → From Cows to You

How do we get our food?

What is nonfiction?

What are contractions?

How do I correctly use -ed and -ing at the end of verbs?

Reading Skills: Connections within Text: Sequence

Spelling Pattern: variant vowel spellings with diagraphs: oo, u

CONNECTED STANDARDS: SOCIAL STUDIES

1.04 Give examples of products (goods) that people buy and use.

1.05 Give examples of services (producers) that people provide.

1.06 Recognize major products and industries found in Tennessee (e.g., agriculture, manufacturing,

mining, music, and tourism).

1.07 Distinguish how people are consumers and producers of goods and services.


RLA Standards/Objectives

Click on the documents that are next for a detailed list of Wonders Unit 1-6 ELA standards.

Click on this week's PDF file to see a list of important dates and events as well as this week's homework assignments.
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HOMEWORK

New assignments come home every Monday night and are not be due back until Friday. I always assign the following to be practiced nightly:

-That week's reading passage & "Fast & Fluent" page

-Spelling words list

-Sight word flash cards

-Writing Journal- one response to the reading each week with a matching illustration

-Math Fast Facts flash cards

Homework Hotline (615) 298-6636
Books

Mrs. Robertson's Classroom Library

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Please remember that the Newport Grammar School's homepage has TONS of digital resources for your everyday use.

Just scroll to the VERY top of this webpage, look to the far right, and click on the yellow rectangle that says "Digital Resources" for all sorts of FABULOUS links and icons. Or...you can simply click here: 

https://www.newportgrammar.org/digital

"Useful Links" is also another great yellow rectangle you can click on at the top right side of this webpage.