Grade 1
“First grade students are challenged to learn bigger things this year. Reading takes off, math becomes more complex and science and social studies explore beyond kids’ inner circles.”
Goals for a Grade 1 Student
- Build a strong foundation of learning habits
- Practice social skills by interacting with family members, teachers, and classmates
- Learn basic numbers and letters
English Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 1 in English:
✓ Use information and prior knowledge to make meaning
✓ Organize and present ideas through writing and speaking
✓ Identify upper and lower case letters, their sounds and names
✓ Retell the main idea of a story and participate in discussions
✓ Read independently for 10 minutes
How Your English Tutor Will Help:
✓ Introduce strategies to use pictures and print to convey meaning
✓ Generate ideas for writing including using patterns and ideas from stories
✓ Practice spacing between words, capital letters, punctuation and spelling
✓ Brainstorm writing by expanding on an idea and using words choice
✓ Provide guidance in writing from top to bottom; left to right
✓ Practice using phonetic spelling to write independently
Mathematics Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 1 in Math:
✓ Understand place value into the hundreds
✓ Count by twos, threes, fives, and tens
✓ Use blocks or models to demonstrate addition and subtraction
✓ Begin to understand the concept of more, less and equal
✓ Begin to measure time, temperature, length, and area
How Your Math Tutor Will Help:
✓ Make real life connections to numbers using student’s personal life
✓ Engage in problem solving stories that are connected to real-life places and stories (eg. money concepts and usage)
✓ Familiarize students with mathematical vocabulary, such as more, less, equal
✓ Represent mathematical ideas in pictorial and symbolic forms, such as using building blocks
