The St. Mary's Classroom

First Grade
Mrs. Minock
sminock@stmarysstclair.org
class website: www.first1grade.weebly.com

Mrs. Minock received her Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Education from Eastern Michigan University. Mrs. Minock has been teaching for more than 20 years. Prior to teaching at St. Mary’s School, Mrs. Minock taught at St. Augustine’s School in Richmond, Michigan.

Our Studies:

In grade 1 our students have a good time learning a lot of new things.

In Religion our learners are assisted in learning that God loves us and that He is our Father and our Creator, Jesus is the son of God and the Holy Spirit is our helper. We participate in Mass each week. The eighth graders are our Mass buddies and teach us how to celebrate.

Learners are assisted in reading/language arts by reading and spelling basic sight words, identifying and reading vocabulary words and their meaning, demonstrating the ability to listen to and follow directions. We alphabetize to the first letter and use multiple strategies to decode and recognize words and construct meaning when reading fiction and nonfiction text.

In mathematics we assist our learners in classifying numbers: greater/less, even/odd. We count to 100 identify and write these numbers. We make graphs and organize data using tally marks. In operations we add and subtract up to 10.

Science and social studies are incorporated into our reading program. Weekly Reader is used for current events.