First Grade Teachers:

Mrs. Melissa Barrett - Room 308

Mrs. Debbie Cranfill - Room 311

Mrs. Jennifer Jones - Room 307

Mrs. Heather Largent - Room 314

Mrs. Angela Watt - Room 313

Mrs. Karen Yokely - Room 312

First Grade Assistant:

Mrs. Pat Woodward

Expecatations for First Graders:      

• Independently unpack and start the day.
• Always try your best on all assignments.
• Follow directions the first time.
• Ask for help when you need it.
• Consistently use correct handwriting.
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Grading Scale

Level 1:  Significantly below or not meeting grade level expectations

Level 2:  Making growth toward grade level expectations.  Inconsistently meets grade level expectations.

Level 3:  Consistently meets grade level expectations.

Level 4:  Consistently EXCEEDS grade level expectations and is working a grade level above.

Over the summer:

READ books (to them, with them, try to read on their own)

Practise COUNTING forwards and backwards, skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s)

Practise using tally marks

Visit a Library and apply for a library card

Practice correct handwriting, top to bottom with correct spacing

Start keeping a diary/journal (for fun)

As a first grader, you can expect your child to learn:

READING

• Ask/answer questions about key details
• Retell stories with details, main idea, characters, setting, events
• Written retells (mclass question stems as a resource)
• Working with syllables & sounds in words
• Short & long vowels

WRITING

• Narrative writing
• Informative Writing (How To, use transitional words)
• Opinion Writing (State an opinion and provide reasons)
• Mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, spacing, handwriting)
• Handwriting (penmanship,letter formation, lower and upper case letters)
• Writing 8 complete sentences by the end of 1st grade.

MATH

• Tens and ones
• Place value
• Counting to 120
• Ten frames
• Number order and comparing with < = >
• Adding and subtracting mentally by tens
• Addition and subtraction facts within 20
• Adding 2 digit numbers within 100
• Non-standard measurement
• Data and graphs
• Time to the hour and half hour(digital and analog)
• 2D and 3D shapes and properties
• Dividing shapes into equal shares
• Story problems
• Equal equations

SCIENCE

• Animal Habitats
• Moon & Moon Phases
• Force & Motion
• Plants & their needs

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Rules & Citizenship in home, school, community
• Diverse customs/traditions
• Holidays/celebrations
• Geography (maps/globes)
• Humans interactions with their environment
• Economics (needs, wants, supply/demand)