What Do 1st Graders Learn?

First 9 Weeks Themes:
Weather and Seasons
Water
Our Earth and Our Country
Benjamin Franklin

Second 9 Weeks Themes:
Magnets and Sound
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea

Third 9 Weeks Themes:
Light and Shadows
Plants/Animals (Basic Needs)
Hariett Tubman
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington Carver

Fourth 9 Weeks Themes:
Animals (compare and discribe)
Review Light, Shadows, Plants and Animals
American Folk Tales
Economics

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Link below to Georgia Performance Standards(GPS).
All Georgia students are expected to meet or exceed these learning goals by 
the end of first grade.
Language Arts GPS

See GPS Revisions
New State Writing Genre Standards

Link to First Grade  Reading Sight Words  and Spelling Words

Math GPS

Science GPS

Social Studies GPS

Technology Integration

See Basic (age-appropriate) Social Skills

Cobb County Character Education by the Week

Brochure for First Grade Parents

Health (QCC)

Cobb County Picasso Link to other parent resources

Check for new letter each 9 weeks from Cobb County Math Department

First Nine Weeks Math Letter from Cobb County:

1st Grade Mathematics from Cobb County Schools
First Nine Weeks

Dear Parents:
The objectives listed below will be used to lead your child to mastery of 
the concepts covered in the 1st Nine Weeks Unit of study. 

Graphs
	Organize and record data using objects
	Interpret the data

Number Representations
	Sets with concrete objects/manipulatives
	Base ten models
	Pictorial drawing
	Writing numbers
	Place value
	Order numbers

Addition and Subtraction (Facts to 10)
	More than/ less than
	Skip counting
	Break numbers apart
	Strategies for addition and subtraction
	Inverse relationship of addition and subtraction

Compare Numbers
	Small sets 
	Greater than
	Less than
	Equal to

Measurement
	Calendar
	Days of week
	Months in a year


Here are some suggestions as to what you can do at home to help your child:

	Help your child count sets and compare them.   Take a pocketful of 
change and have them count how many pennies and how many dimes, nickels, or 
quarters you have.  Then have your child compare two sets of the coins 
stating which set has the smallest or greatest amount.  
	Ask your child what day of the week it is and what happens on that 
day.  Help them to identify which day of the week they have ball practice, 
dance, or other events. 
	Use cards that are numbered and have your child put the numbers in 
order. 
	Use playing cards or cards numbered 1-10.  Shuffle the cards and 
deal all of them out between two people.  On the count of three each player 
turns over a card the person with the highest card gets to keep both cards.

Here is a game that you can play with your child to help them learn addition 
facts:

Materials: 10 pennies, beans, or other objects to use as counters.

Each player starts with 5 counters.

On the count of three, each player puts 1 to 5 counters on the table.

Ask your child how many counters there are in all.  Then have them say the 
sum.

Then help your child tell an addition story that describes what was just 
done in the game.  For example:  I put down 1 counter and you put down 3 
counters, so 1 and 3 make 4 in all.

Repeat several times.



Sincerely,


Mrs. Hatcher