First Grade

Reading
The student will:
  • Recognize upper and lower case letters
  • Identify consonant sounds (beginning, middle and end)
  • Recognize and use vowel sounds (long/short) and apply rules (e.g. a-e-i-o-u and sometimes y)
  • Use appropriate decoding skills including blends (e.g. br, st) and digraphs (e.g.sh,th)
  • Use sight word families for word use and spelling (e.g. cat, mat, hat)
  • Develop sight vocabulary - words seen often in print (e.g. and, the, because)
  • Use pictures, phonetic, and contextual clues to develop meaning
  • Read with meaning
  • Develop listening skills
  • Make comparisons and contrasts
Penmanship
The student will:
  • Form and use upper and lower case manuscript letters appropriately (e.g. raBBit should be rabbit)
Math
The student will:
  • Recognize and write numbers to 100
  • Add and subtract facts to 18
  • Construct appropriate equations to solve simple written math problems
  • Work using rote counting, money, measurement, geometry, graphing, and estimation
  • Tell time in hour and half hour intervals
  • Begin understanding place value concept in numbers

Writing and Language Arts
The student will:
  • Create a story a with a beginning, middle, and end
  • Begin to use writing conventions (punctuation and capitalization)
  • Create illustrations to correspond with written words
  • Write in complete sentences
  • Have exposure to different types of literature (e.g. poetry, novels, short stories)

Social Studies
The student will:
  • Understand the makeup of a family unit and how his/her family is part of a community
  • Understand the importance of safety as it relates to home and school

Computers
The student will:
  • Become aware of the keyboard
  • Use software to reinforce math, reading, and writing skills

Science
The student will learn appropriate science concepts, focused on:
  • Properties (characteristics of materials such as its shape, size, and color).
  • Growing older
  • Heat
  • Rocks, sand, soil
Themes
The student will work on while acquiring math and reading skills may include:
  • Bears
  • Frogs
  • Penguins
  • Seasons
 
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