Reading

• Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
• Demonstrate an understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds
• Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
• Retell stories including key details and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in stories using key details
• Explain the major differences between fiction and informational texts
• Read and comprehend literary and informational text

Writing

• Write opinion pieces, state an opinion supply a reason
• Write informative texts and supply some facts about the topic
• Write narratives including two or more sequenced events
• Participate in shared research and writing projects

Speaking and Listening

• Participate in conversations with peers and adults in large and small groups
• Ask and answer questions about details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through media
• Express ideas and feelings clearly
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar when speaking or writing

First Grade mathematics is about:

1. developing understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20; 
2. developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones;
3. developing understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units; and
4. reasoning about attributes of, and composing and decomposing geometric shapes.

Topics include: 

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
• Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
• Add and subtract within 40
• Count to 120 and extend a counting sequence from any number less than 120
• Understand place value
• Order and compare objects by lengths
• Measure and express the length of an object as a whole number of length units
• Tell and write time in hours and half hours using analogue and digital clocks
• Organize, represent, and interpret data
• Reason with shapes and their attributes

Inquiries

• Economic Choices
• Family
• Family Stories
• Global Citizen
• Maps and Geography
• The President

• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Physical Science: Light and Sound
• Space Systems: Patterns and Cycles
• Life Science: Plants and Animals

Science Lab -

Hands on investigations, experiments and field trips will allow students to discover and reinforce concepts and skills related to the following topics: light and sound waves, the structures and functions of organisms, and patterns and cycles in our solar system.