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Below is a brief overview of the concepts and skills your child will be learning throughout the first-grade school year.
At Kyffin Elementary, our first-grade teachers work collaboratively to plan engaging, meaningful lessons that are aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards and the district's proficiency scales. These proficiency scales help guide instruction, monitor student progress, and ensure that every child has the support and opportunities they need to grow academically and reach their full potential.
We are committed to creating a positive learning environment where every student is encouraged to learn, explore, and succeed.
Literacy
Communicate using verbal and nonverbal language to express and receive information.
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (CCSS: SL.1.1)
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (CCSS: SL.1.2)
Use multiple strategies to develop and expand oral communication.
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. (CCSS: SL.1.4)
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (CCSS: SL.1.)
Apply foundational reading strategies to fluently read and comprehend literary texts.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. (CCSS: RL.1.2)
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (CCSS: RL.1.3)
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. (CCSS: RL.1.7)
Apply foundational reading strategies to fluently read and comprehend informational texts.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (CCSS: RI.1.2)
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. (CCSS: RI.1.7)
Writing
Use appropriate grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Print all upper- and lowercase letters. (CCSS: L.1.1a)
Write complete simple sentences.
Capitalize dates and names of people. (CCSS: L.1.2a)
Use end punctuation for sentences. (CCSS: L.1.2b)
Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series. (CCSS: L.1.2c)
Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words. (CCSS: L.1.2d)
Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions. (CCSS: L.1.2e)
Recount real or imagined, sequenced events that include details and a sense of closure.
Recount two or more appropriately sequenced events. (CCSS: W.1.3)
Include some details regarding what happened. (CCSS: W.1.3)
Provide some sense of closure. (CCSS: W.1.3)
Write an opinion supported by reasons.
Introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about. (adapted from CCSS: W.1.1)
State an opinion. (adapted from CCSS: W.1.1)
Supply a reason for the opinion. (adapted from CCSS: W.1.1)
Provide some sense of closure. (adapted from CCSS: W.1.1)
Math
Number & Operations in Base Ten
Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. (CCSS: 1.NBT.A.1)
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases: (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.2)
Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <. (CCSS: 1.NBT.B.3)
Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used. (CCSS: 1.NBT.C.5)
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. (CCSS: 1.OA.A.1)
Add and subtract within 20 demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten, decomposing a number leading to a ten, using the relationship between addition and subtraction, and and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (CCSS: 1.OA.C.6)
Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false (CCSS: 1.OA.D.7)
Measurement & Data
Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object. (CCSS: 1.MD.A.1)
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks. (CCSS: 1.MD.B.3)
Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. (CCSS: 1.MD.C.4)
Geometry: Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Science
Sound can make matter vibrate and vibrating matter can make sound.
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make a sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. (1-PS4-1)
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that used light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. (1-PS4-4)
All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions.
Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. (1-LS1-2)
Young organisms are very much, but not exactly, like their parents, and also resemble other organisms of the same kind.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. (1-LS3-1)
Patterns of movement of the sun, moon and stars as seen from Earth can be observed, described and predicted.
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. (1-ESS1-1)
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. (1-ESS1-2)
Social Studies
Ask questions and discuss ideas about patterns and chronological order of events from the past.
Arrange life events in chronological order.
Use words related to time, sequence, and change. For example: Past, present, future, change, first, next, and last.
Identify the organizational components of a calendar. For example: Year, months, weeks, days, and notable events.
Explain how the diverse perspectives and traditions of families from many cultures have shaped the United States.
Identify the unique characteristics of oneself as well as the similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Use geographic terms and tools to describe places and spaces.
Describe locations using terms related to direction and distance.
Distinguish between land and water on a map and globe.
Create simple maps showing both human and natural features.
Describe the characteristics of a community and how they are influenced by the environment.
Provide examples of how individuals and families interact with their environment.
Analyze how weather, climate and environmental characteristics influence individuals and the cultural characteristics of a family.
Understand that individuals work in different types of jobs to earn an income.
Identify the goods and/or services that different types of businesses produce in the local community.
Give examples of different types of jobs held by family members and/or individuals in the local community.
Identify and explain how the significance of notable people, places, holidays, and civic symbols reflect the origins and values of the government and its citizens.
Identify and explain the meaning of various civic symbols important to diverse community groups.
Identify and explain the relevance of significant civic places.
Explain the significance of major civic holidays.
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