First Grade Objectives
English Language Arts and Reading:
*In first grade students continue to develop their oral language and communication skills and move to becoming independent readers and writers.
*First grade students listen attentively and connect their experiences and ideas with information and ideas presented in print. *Students can name the letters and know the order of the alphabet and associate sounds with the letter or letters that represent them.
*First grade students regularly read (both orally and silently) in texts of appropriate difficulty with fluency and understanding.
*Students demonstrate their comprehension by asking and answering questions, retelling stories, predicting outcomes, and making and explaining inferences.
*Students know the difference between words, sentences, and paragraphs.
* The students' messages move from left-to-right and from top-to-bottom and are written with increasing control of penmanship.
Mathematics:
*In first grade students are building number sense through number relationships, adding and subtracting whole numbers, organizing and analyzing data, and working with two- and three-dimensional geometric figures.
*Students build a foundation of basic understandings in number, operation, and quantitative reasoning; patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking; geometry and spatial reasoning; measurement; and probability and statistics.
*Students develop numerical fluency with conceptual understanding and computational accuracy.
*Problem solving, language and communication, connections within and outside mathematics, and formal and informal reasoning underlie all content areas in mathematics. Students use these processes together with technology and other mathematical tools such as manipulative materials to develop conceptual understanding and solve meaningful problems as they do mathematics.
Science:
*The study of science includes simple classroom and field investigations to help students develop the skills of asking questions, gathering information, making measurements using non-standard units, with tools such as a thermometer to extend their senses, constructing explanations, and drawing conclusions.
*Students they identify components of the natural world including rocks, soil, and natural resources.
* Students should know how science has built a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models, and also should know that science may not answer all questions.
*A system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact. Students should understand a whole in terms of its components and how these components relate to each other and to the whole.
*Students should understand that certain types of questions can be answered by investigations, and that methods, models, and conclusions built from these investigations change as new observations are made.
Social Studies:
*Students learn about their relationship to the classroom, school, and community. The concepts of time and chronology are developed by distinguishing among past, present, and future events. Students make simple maps to identify the location of places in the classroom, school, and community.
*The use of a variety of rich material such as biographies; folktales, myths, and legends; and poetry, songs, and artworks is encouraged.
*Students build a foundation in history; geography; economics; government; citizenship; culture; science, technology, and society; and social studies skills.