First Grade

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Mrs. Barrett

308

Mrs. Lewis

307

Mrs. McClellan

312

Mrs. Largent  

314

New for 2024-2025

Online Learning Management System for 1st Graders

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Expectations for First Graders

  • Independently unpack and start the day.

  • Always try your best on all assignments.

  • Follow directions the first time.

  • Ask for help when you need it.

  • Consistently use correct handwriting.

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.

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 public library and apply for a library card

  • Practice correct handwriting, top to bottom, with correct spacing

  • Start keeping a diary/journal (for fun)

You should expect your child to learn this year

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 eight 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 measurements

  • 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 at home, school, community

  • Diverse customs/traditions

  • Holidays/celebrations

  • Geography (maps/globes)

  • Human interactions with their environment

  • Economics (needs, wants, supply/demand)

High Frequency Words

1st quarter

his

had

him

aS

ask

just

let

has

off

tell

uS

sit

yellow

red

green

black

blue

purple

orange |

brown

white

from

put

pull

your

2nd quarter

old

stop

fast

best

sing

then

when

them

think

thank

their

these

those

both

which

why

take

write

made

gave

use

some

give

live

goes

3rd quarter

funny

pretty

any

every

by

fly

very

many

one

two

three

four

five

six

seven

eight

nine

ten

could

once

would

kind

work

does

buy

4th quarter

please

know

may

right

sleep

read

soon

too

under

her

over

after

or

first

how

round

found

open

before

again

always

because

were

walk

been

First Grade Supply List

  • Earbuds for Chromebooks

  • 4 boxes of 24 crayons

  • 10 glue sticks

  • #2 pencils

  • 5 pencil top erasers 

  • 2 wide-ruled composition books

  • 2 boxes of tissues

  • box of washable markers

  • pencil box

  • book bag/back pack (no wheels)

  • Hand sanitizer 

  • 1 box quart size zip-lock bags

  • 1 box gallon size zip-lock bags

  • 2 solid colored plastic pocket folders

  • Paper towels

  • Bleach free - disinfecting wipes

Online Resources for First Grade Students

Poetry Minute provides a poem each day of the month. 

  • Enjoy reading a poem and identifying rhyming words and theme. 

  • Draw a picture of what the poem represents to you. 

Math Madness provides a competitive way to practice Math Fluency in your classroom.

Possible Field Trips

  • Millcrest Creek

  • Mark Daniel Story Teller (In house)

  • NC Zoo

(Please remember there are costs applicable to field trips, which includes bus transportation. Trips are planned in advance to secure bus transportation.) 

Please consider donating the following items to your child's class:

  • Tissues

  • Baby Wipes

  • Glue sticks

  • Paper towels

  • Extra 2 pocket plastic folders

  • Pencils

  • Erasers

  • Post it notes

  • Regular hand soap

  • Bleach free disinfecting wipes

  • Play Doh

  • Sidewalk chalk

  • Hand sanitizer