First grade students work towards mastering the following SAU 15 competencies
for English/Language Arts by the end of the school year:
- Applies grade level phonics skills in reading.
- Reads grade level text accurately and fluently.
- Reads and makes meaning of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.
- Composes an opinion/argument writing.
- Composes informative writing.
- Composes narrative writing.
- Applies grade level phonics in writing.
- Engages in collaborative discussion on grade level topics and text.
- Participates in shared research and writing projects.
- Uses the tools of technology to collaborate, produce and publish.
First grade students work towards mastering the following SAU 15 competencies for math.
By the end of the school year, students will be able to:
- Work with addition and subtraction equations.
- Extend the counting sequence.
- Understand place value.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Add and subtract within 20.
- Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
- Tell and write time.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- Demonstrate progress toward college and career readiness in mathematics.
- Problem Solving: Uses strategies and models to interpret real-world problems
- Communicating Reasoning: Explains mathematical reasoning
SAU 15 Science Competencies
- Students will work collaboratively to make observations and predictions in order to answer testable questions and use their senses, tools and materials to find possible solutions to simple problems.
- Students will observe patterns in the natural world (including human), develop questions to investigate, make connections, and support connections with evidence.
- Students will investigate causal relationships that generate observable patterns and explain their thinking with evidence.
- Students will describe and compare objects, situations, or events using relative scale and standard and nonstandard measurement tools, units, and attributes when making observations or solving problems.
- Students will explain how the parts of systems work together (e.g., an environment, including the animals and plants) in order to function effectively.
- Students will investigate, observe and describe solids, liquids, and gases, and what happens when matter and energy is manipulated (e.g., heated, cooled, disassembled, reassembled).
SAU 15 Social Studies Competencies
Applications of Social Studies Processes, Knowledge, and Skill
- With support develop and present research-based projects which synthesize information from multiple resources.
Civic Engagement
- Students examine how they can actively improve and solve problems in their classroom, school, or local community.
Civics and Government
- Examine and compare rules and responsibilities as members of a community.
Economics
- Distinguish between needs and wants in order to apply understanding of how these are met within a community.
Geography
- Understand that maps are tools that convey information.
History
- Apply and demonstrate knowledge of events, individuals, and groups that affect the community