English Language Arts:

Each child will:

1. Participate appropriately in small and large group discussions
2. Use personal experiences and prior knowledge to discuss a topic
3. Participate in guided reading groups and literacy centers
4. Reach Rigby Benchmark 19 in our guided reading program
5. Participate in weekly spelling and phonics lessons
6. Utilize word wall words and classroom word wall
7. Read and write sight words
8. Know all letters and sounds and be able to utilize them to decode words
9. Recite poems and understand the different components of poems
10. Develop poetry pieces
11. Read at least 25 age appropriate books and respond with book reviews
12. Participate in  author studies
13. Develop and organize thoughts beginning with simple sentences and progressing towards stories
14. Write to compare and contrast, explain, express, narrate, and persuade

 Math
Each child will:

1. Count, recognize and write to 100                                                               
2. Read number words to 30
3. Count by multiples: twos, fives, and tens (up to 100)
4. Know addition and subtraction facts through twenty
5. Be able to add and subtract double digit numbers with no carrying or borrowing
6. Read and write addition and subtraction number sentences
7. Understand place value to 100
8. Solve word problems and explain how they got their answer
9. Identify and know the value of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
10. Be able to count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
11. Tell and record time to the hour and half hour
12. Complete fraction, geometric shapes, graphing, measurements, and pattern activities

Science
Each child will:

1. Describe the changes that occur in the four seasons
2. Understand that the Earth is made of solids, liquids, and gases
3. Observe and classify properties of different objects
4. Describe the similarities and differences among living and nonliving things
5. Describe life cycles of some plants and animals
6. Depict what things can promote good health for humans

Social Studies
Each child will:

1. Understand the importance of their family and other families
2. Be able to describe how people live and work in the past and present
3. Recognize traditions and values passes on through families
4. Understand the importance of rules, responsibilities, and laws
5. Have and awareness of holidays and celebrations
6. Understand what a citizen is and what it means to be a good citizen in school and in the community
7. Understand goods and wants
8. Draw maps and read diagrams

Work Habits:
Each child will:

1. Attend school everyday
2. Arrive at school by 8:50 and be well rested
3. Have a positive attitude towards school, self, and others
4. Display good behavior
5. Show effort and neatness in all work
6. Accept responsibility for belongings and daily work
7. Be able to take risks in new learning situations
8. Respect all classmates and teacher
9. Develop independence
10. Complete weekly homework assignments

Grading in First Grade

Math

1. Daily work
2. Class participation
3. Teacher observation
4. End of chapter tests

Writing

1. Understanding and application of the writing process
2. Use correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
3. Grading will be using the First Grade Rubric
4. Participation and effort in Writer’s Workshop

Reading

1. Daily class work
2. Teacher observation
3.  Working at individuals ability
4. Rigby Benchmark
5. End of year District ELA test
6. Assessments for reading comprehension

Science/Social Studies

• Classroom work
• Working cooperatively with others
• Applying concepts which are taught

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