First Grade

Teachers

  • April Burt

  • Katherine Ford 

  • Liza Igbos

  • Shaina Kearney

  • Katarah McKey

Online Resources

Expectations for First Graders

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

  • P- Polite

  • O- On task

  • W- Wise

  • E- Encouraging

  • R- Responsible


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.

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

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)

High Frequency Words

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Supply List

  • Box of 24 crayons

  • Box of washable markers

  • Pack of #2 pencils

  • Glue sticks

  • 2 boxes of tissues

  • Pencil pouch/zippered or box

  • Book bag/back pack (no wheels)

  • Hand sanitizer (purell/dial/germx)

  • 3-ring binders (1")

  • 1 box zip-lock bags (quart/gallon)

  • 2 solid colored 2-pocket folders

  • 2 composition notebooks

  • 2 spiral bound notebooks

  • Pack of dry erase markers