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First Grade Skills

Below are some of the skills and concepts that a first grade student will typically learn:

• Become an independent reader, improve their phonics, phonemic awareness, and comprehension

• Grammar skills including capitalization and punctuation

• Handwriting skills, writing 5-10 complete sentences.

• Math skills such as adding and subtracting single digit or small numbers, greater than and less than concepts, identifying patterns US Coins and shapes

• How to make scientific observations and record these in writing, pictures and/or graphs.

• Symbols that represent the U.S.

• Important figures and events in U.S. history

• The difference between living and nonliving things

• The importance of the sun in relation to Earth and living things

• Forces and Motion

• States of M

Homework

Nightly Reading: Each night students should spend at least 20 minutes reading aloud from an on level book.  Students will bring home a Baggy book and reading log each day to record their reading.  They may also read library books or books from home.  It is important that they read out loud to an adult.  Please encourage them to sound out words they struggle with.  Reading logs will be checked weekly.  Students will be rewarded with an icecream party at the end of the year for reading 100 or more books!  

Sight Word Books:  Please check for a blue sight work book in your childs folder.  They should practice the words in the book daily, one page at a time.  The worlds will be checked off by a teacher when they can fluently read the word. 

Spelling:  Students will have spelling words each week.  Please practice writing the words each day at home to prepare for the test on Friday.  

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