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 Matter