In Dublin City Schools, we believe that all students deserve a mathematical learning experience centered around communication, collaboration, thinking and problem solving.

First Grade Big Ideas:

• Organizing to Count

• Representing and Modeling situations help us see math

• Solving problems in different ways

• Tens and Ones are useful ways to organize

• Equal means the same

• Numbers on a line

• We can use data to describe and wonder about our world

• Shape flexibility

• We use units to measure our world

The First Grade Language Arts program focuses on the foundational skills of reading and writing. Students are encouraged and supported through effective instructional practices to think about what they read and write, as well as communicate that thinking through multiple medium. An additional instructional focus is placed on spoken words, syllables and sounds to support the ability to spell words with increasing accuracy throughout the year. 21st Century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking will be infused in the First Grade Language Arts Program to give students the skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in work and life.

Students in first grade will focus on developing the skills for systematic discovery to understand the science of the physical world around them in greater depth by using scientific inquiry. Students will learn that energy is observed through movement, heating, cooling and the needs of living organisms. They learn about the sun as a source of energy and energy changes that occur to land, air and water. Students develop an understanding that energy allows for changes to occur in both living and nonliving things. Additional learning focuses on the changes in properties that occur in objects and materials and that changes of position of an object are a result of pushing or pulling.

The first-grade year builds on the concepts developed in kindergarten by focusing on the individual as a member of a family. Students begin to understand how families lived long ago and how they live in other cultures. They develop concepts about how the world is organized spatially through beginning map skills. They build the foundation for understanding principles of government and their roles as citizens.t put social studies "big ideas" for the year.