Grade 1 Marking Period 2 Overview

Fluency (creative thinking skill) generating multiple responses to a problem or

an idea.
6.3 Generate ideas using multiple strategies.
6.4 Ask questions in a variety of ways.
Intellectual Risk Taking (academic success skill) Accepting uncertainty or
challenging the norm to reach a goal.
10.1 Adapt and make adjustments to meet challenges when seeking
solutions.
10.2 Demonstrate willingness to accept uncertainty by sharing ideas,
asking questions, or attempting novel tasks.

Unifying Questions
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9

How does asking questions in different ways help you make sense of ideas?
How does using different strategies help you create ideas?
How does being willing to share ideas, ask questions, or try new tasks help you learn?
How does being willing to change help you solve a challenging problem?

MP 2 Curriculum Concepts and Topics

Science &
Engineering
Living things
and nonliving objects

Health
Education
Improving
and
maintaining
personal
health: dental
Health
services in
schools
Harmful
health effects
of litter
Strategies to
prevent litter

Mathematics

Literary text: Junior Great

Books; ask and answer
questions about key
details in text
Vocabulary: collaborative
conversations, follow
agreed upon rules for
discussion, build on
others comments
through multiple
exchanges

Place value and

representation:
decomposing
and composing
2digit numbers
in multiple ways
Meaning of
equal sign

Literary text: Junior Great

Books; ask and answer
questions about key
details in text
Vocabulary: collaborative
conversations, follow
agreed upon rules for
discussion, build on
others comments
through multiple
exchanges, distinguish
shades of meaning
among verbs
Literary text: describe
major events in a story
using key details, use
illustrations and details to
describe characters,
settings, or events
Vocabulary: collaborative
conversations, follow
agreed upon rules for
discussion, build on
others comments
through multiple

Informative/
explanatory:
ideas name a
topic,
participate in
shared
research, recall
information
from experience
Language:
capitalize
names of
people
Informative/
explanatory:
organization
supply facts
about a topic,
focus on a topic
Language:
produce
complete
sentences, use
of commas in a
series

Place value and

representation:
decomposing
and composing
2digit numbers
in multiple ways
Meaning of
equal sign

Movement of
non-living
objects

Social skills for

working in
cooperative
groups
Family and
community
customs and
traditions
Ways people in
the community
meet human
needs

Resource
exploration:
online
Informational
text:
literature-toliterature
connections

Fast and slow

Steady beat on
instruments
Steady beat
through
movement

Effects of
exercise on
body

Lines (direction,
types), shapes
(geometric.
organic),
textures (types,
how things
feel), and
patterns
(repetition,
center of
interest) in the
environment

Informative/
explanatory:
organization
focus on a
topic, supply
facts
Language:
conjunctions

Addition and
subtraction
situations:
representing
and recording
Meaning of
equal sign

Comparisons
of how
objects move

Social skills for

working in
cooperative
groups
Family and
community
customs and
traditions
Ways people in
the community
meet human
needs

Resource
exploration:
print, online,
multimedia
Informational
text:
literature-toself,
literature-tomultimedia
connections

Long and short

sounds
Number of
sounds on a
beat
Criteria for
classroom
performances

Effects of
exercise on
body

Sketches:
developing
ideas from
observation,
memory, and
imagination

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Grade 1 Integrated PlannerMarking Period Overview, Updated 9/16/14

Instruction during
this week will
focus on Health
Education
concepts and
topics

Music

Physical
Education
Effects of
exercise on
body: heart,
lungs, and
skin

Writing

Social Studies

Information
Literacy
Resource
exploration:
print,
multimedia
Informational
text:
literature-toself

Reading

Loud and soft

music
Imitation:
rhythmic and
tonal patterns
Steady beat
through
movement

Art
Lines (direction,
types), shapes
(geometric,
organic),
textures (types,
how things
feel), and
patterns
(repetition,
center of
interest) in the
environment

Grade 1 Marking Period 2 Overview

Reading

exchanges, ask and

answer questions about
what a speaker says
Literary text: describe
major events in a story
using key details,
compare/contrast
adventures or
experiences of
characters
Vocabulary:
ask and answer
questions about key
details in a text read
aloud or information
presented orally or
through other media
Literary text: describe
major events in a story
using key details,
compare/contrast
adventures or
experiences of
characters
Vocabulary:
ask and answer
questions about key
details in a text read
aloud or information
presented orally or
through other media,
identify frequently
occurring root
words/inflectional
endings
Informational/explanatory
text: identify main topic
and retell key details, ask
and answer questions to
determine or clarify
meaning of
words/phrases, use
illustrations and details to
describe key ideas
Vocabulary: context
clues, attributes
Informational/explanatory
text: identify main topic
and retell key details, ask
and answer questions to
determine or clarify

Science &
Engineering

Writing

Mathematics

Opinion: ideas
state opinion,
provide reasons
for opinion
Language: add
details to
strengthen
writing,
determiners

Problem-solving
strategies:
1and 2digit
addition and
subtraction

Descriptions
of changes in
an objects
motion

Opinion: voice
closure, peer
feedback, use
of digital tools
to
produce/publish
writing
Language:
ending
punctuation

Problem-solving
strategies:
1and 2digit
addition and
subtraction

Narrative: ideas
recount two or
more
sequenced
events
Language:
pronouns, verbs

Narrative:
ideas,
organization
details about
events,

Health
Education

Social Studies

Information
Literacy

Music

Social skills for

working in
cooperative
groups
Family and
community
customs and
traditions
Ways people in
the community
meet human
needs

Narrative or
Informational
text: answer
questions,
solve
problems
Technology
tool for
sharing
writing:
organize and
display

Loud and soft

music
Fast and slow

Causes for
changes in
an objects
motion
Descriptions
of the
effects of
magnets on
objects

Social skills for

working in
cooperative
groups
Family and
community
customs and
traditions
Ways people in
the community
meet human
needs

Narrative or
Informational
text: answer
questions,
solve
problems
Technology
tool for
sharing
writing:
formats for
intended
audience

Problem-solving
strategies:
1and 2digit
addition and
subtraction

Descriptions
of the
effects of
magnets on
objects

Cultural artifacts
Differences
between past
and present
People, objects,
and events of
today and long
ago

Problem-solving
strategies:
1and 2digit
addition and
subtraction

Questions
regarding the
effect of
magnets on
objects

Cultural artifacts
Differences
between past
and present
People, objects,

Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland

Grade 1 Integrated PlannerMarking Period Overview, Updated 9/16/14

Physical
Education

Art

Underhand
throw
Catch

Color (primary,
secondary,
warm, cool),
space
(overlapping)

Steady beat on
instruments
Number of
sounds on a
beat
Patriotic songs
Audience
behavior

Underhand
throw
Catch

Color (primary,
secondary,
warm, cool),
space
(overlapping)

Personal
information
need: topic &
resource
selection
Shared
research: ask
questions,
use literature
to answer
questions

Quarter notes
and eighth
notes
Fast and slow
Loud and soft
music

Underhand
throw
Catch

Color (primary,
secondary,
warm, cool),
space
(overlapping)

Shared
research: ask
questions,
use literature
to answer

Quarter notes
and eighth
notes
Steady beat on
instruments

Non-locomotor
movements:
bend, pull,
stretch, twist,
turn, push,

Basic shapes
combined to
make images,
choice of
materials

Imitation:

rhythmic and
tonal patterns
on instruments
Steady beat on
instruments

Grade 1 Marking Period 2 Overview

Reading

Writing

meaning of
words/phrases, use
illustrations and details to
describe key ideas
Vocabulary: real-life
connections between
words and their use
Informational/explanatory
text: identify main topic
and retell key details, ask
and answer questions to
determine or clarify
meaning of
words/phrases, use
illustrations and details to
describe key ideas
Vocabulary: context clues

technology to
produce writing

Informational/explanatory
text: identify main topic
and retell key details, ask
and answer questions to
determine or clarify
meaning of
words/phrases, use
illustrations and details to
describe key ideas
Vocabulary: affixes

Narrative: ideas
recount two
or more
appropriately
sequenced
events, include
some details
regarding what
happened, and
provide some
sense of
closure, add

Language:
describe with
relevant details,
adjectives,
adding details
Narrative: ideas
closure,

technology to
produce
writing, add
drawings or
visual displays

Mathematics

Science &
Engineering

Health
Education

Social Studies
and events of
today and long
ago

Problem-solving
strategies:
adding three
numbers (sums
to 20)

Classification
of materials
using
magnets

Problem-solving
strategies:
adding three
numbers (sums
to 20)

Instruction
during this
week will
focus on
Health
Education
concepts and
topics

Language:
describe with
relevant details,
adjectives,
produce
complete
sentences,
respond to
suggestions
from peers

drawings or
visual displays
Language:
complete
sentences

Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland

Grade 1 Integrated PlannerMarking Period Overview, Updated 9/16/14

Emergency
response: tell
an adult, call
911
Outdoor
safety:
streets,
around
animals
Indoor safety:
kitchens,
kitchen
products
Harassment:
bullies,
teasing,
telling, tattling
Stranger
safety

Information
Literacy
questions
Technology
tool for
sharing
writing:
organizing

Music

Physical
Education
swing, lift
Relationships
with self:
wide, narrow,
round, twisted

Art

Cultural artifacts
Differences
between past
and present
People, objects,
and events of
today and long
ago

Technology
tool for
sharing
writing:
organizing,
formats for
intended
audience,
displaying

Quarter notes
and eighth
notes
So and mi
Steady beat on
instruments
Composition:
rhythmic
patterns

Non-locomotor
movements
Relationships
with self

Basic shapes
combined to
make images,
choice of
materials

Differences
between past
and present:
sorting and
sequencing
school events

Technology
tool for
sharing
writing:
formats for
intended
audience,
displaying
Sharing &
reflection:
connections,
inferences

Quarter notes
and eighth
notes
So and mi
Composition:
melodic
patterns

Non-locomotor
movements
Relationships
with self

Basic shapes
combined to
make images,
choice of
materials
Critiques:
personal
responses to
artwork