Expectations for First Graders:

First grade students are expected to show SOARing in all areas of the school.

S- Show Respect

O- Outstanding conduct

A- Achievement

R- Responsibility

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 at a grade level above.

To help your child prepare for first grade, over the summer you should:

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

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

* Practice 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

* Know First Grade SIGHT WORDS: (click the link below)

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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

First Grade

• 2 boxes of 24 crayons
• 1 box of washable markers
• 2 black dry erase markers
• 2 packs of pencils
• 1 pencil pouch with zipper
• 10 glue sticks
• 5 wedge/pencil top erasers
• 2 wide-ruled composition books
• 2 solid-colored pocket folders
• 1 book bag with no wheels
• 1 set of earbuds/headphones for   personalized learning
• 2 boxes of tissues
• 1 box plastic sandwich bags (Opt: Qt or Gal)
• 1 hand sanitizer

SIGHT WORDS:

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