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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
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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.
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)







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First Grade Supply List
- 4 boxes of 24 crayons
- 10 glue sticks
- #2 pencils
- 5 pencil top erasers
- 2 wide ruled composition books
- 2 boxes of tissues
- box of washable markers
- pencil boxx
- book bag/back pack (no wheels)
- Hand sanitizer
- 1 box quart size zip-lock bags
- 1 box gallon size zip-lock bags
- 2 solid colored plastic pocket folders
- Paper towells
- Bleach free - disinfecting wipes
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High Frequency Words
a about after all am an and any are around as ask at away be before big blue boy brown but by call came can come could day did do don't down every five for four from get girl go going good got green had has have he help her here him his how I if in into is it its jump just know like little long look make me my no now of old on one or out over pretty put red ride right said saw see she six sleep some take that the their them then there they this to too two up very walk want was water way well went
we were what when where will with would yellow yes you your
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Online Resources for First Grade Students:
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Field Trips
- Millcrest Creek
- Mark Daniel Story Teller (In house)
- NC Zoo
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Please consider donating the following items to your child's class:
- Tissues
- Baby Wipes
- Glue sticks
- Paper towels
- Extra 2 pocket plastic folders
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Post it notes
- Regular hand soap
- Bleach free disinfecting wipes
- Play Doh
- Sidewalk chalk
- Hand sanitizer