First Grade

Teacher | Room |
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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
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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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