Grade 1 Curriculum
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 1 Curriculum
• 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
Introduce strategies to use pictures and print to convey meaning
Generate ideas for writing like using ideas from stories
Practice spacing between words, capital letters, and punctuation
Brainstorm writing by expanding on ideas and using vocabulary
Math 1 Curriculum
• 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
Make real life connections to numbers using personal life
Engage in problem solving stories that are connected to real-life
Introduce math vocabulary, such as more, less, and equal
Represent ideas in pictures and symbols, such as building blocks