The first grade curriculum is rich in opportunities for academic and social growth.  The first grade curriculum is extensive and your child's teacher will  present the curriculum expectations at the PTA Open House in September.  The counseling department supports the academic curriculum and student achievement by providing classroom guidance lessons on study skills, developing work habits, listening skills, and organizational skills.  The counselors also provide small group sessions for students that may need additonal help in developing skills for school success.   Listed below is a sample of some of the first grade skills:

Reading:

• Read with fluency and expression
• Draw conclusions and make predictions and comparisons
• Reread for clarification, self-correction, and further comprehension
• Recognize main idea, main characters, setting, details, or sequence of events in fiction and non-fiction text
• Use language structure and meaning clues, phonetic strategies, and sight vocabulary when reading
• Classify and categorize words
• Read at level 14 on the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
• Read at level 2.0 (grade equivalent) on the STAR test

Writing:

• Correctly use high frequency sight words and Sitton spelling words
• Use learned phonetic strategies to spell correctly
• Print legibly (letters, numbers, and spacing of words and sentences)
• Write a minimum of three sentences about a topic
• Communicate ideas using the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing)

Math:

• Recognize, write, name, numerals 0-100
• Collect, sort, and display data (graphs, charts, tables)
• Use non-standard tools to measure
• Tell time to the nearest half hour
• Determine the value of a set of coins up to $1.00, and identify quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies
• Recognize and make "Fair Trades" with bills up to $20.00 (one, five, ten, and twenty dollar bills)
• Connect quantities up to 100 to number words and physical models and representations of tens and ones
• Determine fractions for one-half and one-fourth
• Determine addition and subtraction facts up to 10 in the fall and 18 in the spring
• Add and subtract two-digit numbers without regrouping
• Name, draw and construct geometric shapes
• Create and solve word problems