Let’s Talk 1st Grade

Our 1st grade team

Things to know when starting 1st grade

Language Arts• Identifying all letters, uppercase and

lowercase• Recognize and write all letter sounds they

hear• Begin to use invented spelling when

writing• Recognize and read all Kindergarten sight

words• Orally retell a story using beginning,

middle and end

Concept of Print

• Direction of left to right when reading• Identify front cover of a book• Identify title and title page• When to turn the page in the book• What a period means

Math• Identify and write the numbers 1-100• Count to 100• Count by tens and to 100• Identify basic shapes and their attributes• Solve simple addition and subtraction

problems• Describe measured items in terms of

longer and shorter and weighed items as lighter and heavier

Things we learn in 1st grade

Language Arts

• Sequencing of a story using the words first, next, then and last

• Oral retelling of a story and identify the setting, main characters and events from the story

• Able to answer questions after listening or reading a story

• How to write complete sentences about a given topic using proper capitalization and punctuation

• Sound out unknown words independently and write letters to match the sounds

• Apply taught spelling skills• Spelling test begin in January

Math

• Identify and write numbers up to 120• Addition and subtraction problems up to

20• Place Value, making a model with base

ten blocks, drawing a picture of a number and identifying the number in the tens and ones place

• Less than, greater than, and equal to• Time on the hour and half hour (analog

and digital)

PTD(Primary Talented Devolpment)

• Continues in 1st grade

Design Dilemma

1st grade Projects

• Cereal Box Project• Gingerbread Man journal project• Black History Month Project• Career Day Project• Make up Your Own Holiday

Bubbleology

Questions