(Look up email addresses)

• Janier Aguirre

• Michelle Filisola Avendano

• Riley Goehrig (Terry)

• Julie Merrill

• Sonia Paradas

• Karen Prieto Barragan

• Rosario Sakatoma

K-8 Quick Reference NC Curriculum Guides (First Grade)

See our Speas Global IB Programme of Inquiry Here and check out the 6 Units of Inquiry we will be working on during the school year. Approximate dates are included, but may be adjusted as the year goes along. 

Over the summer:

• 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 (First, Second, Then, Finally)

• 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, goods and services, supply/demand)

Links to Parent Road Maps in Spanish (See English below)

Guía Para Los Padres: Apoyando A Su Hijo En Primer Grado, Artes Del Lenguaje En Inglés 

Guía Para Los Padres: Apoyando A Su Hijo En Primer Grado, Matemáticas

Parent Roadmap: Supporting Your Child in Grade One, English Language Arts

Parent Roadmap: Supporting Your Child in Grade One, Mathematics