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Welcome to First Grade Classrooms!
Together We SOAR!Meet our First Grade Teachers!Madison BaityKayla Isbell, MCLMattison RoseAlicia Gorman, Reach AssociateExpectations 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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