First Grade Supply List  

Welcome to 1st Grade!

I hope you all are ready for a fun and exciting year! My objective is to make sure your child is learning, engaged, and supported through this year of schooling. At the end of the school year the goal is for your child to: 

Writing/Language Arts:

• Know basic sentences format (begins with a capital letter, ends with a punctuation mark)

• Write one paragraph with a topic, 3 details, and a closing sentence

• Write letters, legibly on the line (with proper letter placement)

• Write words with adequate spacing

• Use spelling patterns to help spell words and spell frequently used words correctly

• Know common opposites

Reading:

• Know how to use decoding strategies and context clues to sound out words and develop

• word knowledge

• Read at a level 16-18

• Sit and read silently for 20 minutes or more

• Distinguish vowels from consonant letters and know their sounds

Math:

• Count by ones, twos, fives, and tens to 120.

• Know the addition and subtraction facts to 20

• Be familiar with doubles math facts

• Know place value- Ones, tens and hundreds

Technology:

• Know the parts of a computer: mouse, screen, keyboard, etc.

• Know what a computer can be used for

• Have beginning keyboard skills (space, shift, return)

• Other Skills:

• Raise his/her hand to ask question

• Read words, such as in, out, over, beneath, under, left, right, etc.

• Have hallway and bathroom etiquette skills

• Be able to communicate needs and wants

• Be able to keep desk organized