Grade 1 Team

Our classrooms follow the school-wide PBIS expectations.

Flexible Learning Day Activity Board Sight Words Mindfulness

Grade 1 Curriculum

This is an exciting year for making tremendous growth in reading and learning how to work more with numbers such as adding and subtracting. In first grade students will have the opportunity to participate in outdoor learning during our First Grade Foresters time. Children have their Music performance at Jordan High School in December and many field trips and activities are planned such as a trip to the MN Zoo and attending a play at the Children’s Theater.

Reading

Key Ideas and Details

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Craft and Structure

Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

Social Studies

Citizenship and Government

Demonstrate ways good citizens participate in the civic life of their community; explain why participation is important.
Explain why and when the Pledge of Allegiance is recited; provide examples of basic flag etiquette and other demonstrations of patriotism.
Identify the president of the United States; explain that voting determines who will be president.

Economics

Describe some costs and benefits of alternative choices made by families.
Explain that people trade (voluntarily) when they each expect to be better off after doing so.

Geography

Create sketch maps to illustrate spatial information about familiar places; describe spatial information found on maps.

History

Create a timeline that identifies at least three events from one’s own life.

Math

Number and Operation

Count, compare and represent whole numbers up to 120, with an emphasis on groups of tens and ones.
Use a variety of models and strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems in real-world and mathematical contexts.

Algebra

Recognize and create patterns; use rules to describe patterns.
Use number sentences involving addition and subtraction basic facts to represent and solve real-world and mathematical problems; create real-world situations corresponding to number sentences.

Geometry and Measurement

Describe characteristics of basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, rectangular prism, cylinder, cone and sphere). Use basic shapes to compose and decompose other objects in various contexts.
Measure the length of an object in terms of multiple copies of another object.
Tell time to the hour and half-hour.
Identify pennies, nickels and dimes; find the value of a group of these coins, up to one dollar.

Science

Engineering and Physical Science

When asked “How do you know?”, students support their answer with observations and by obtaining information from various sources.
Recognizing that describing things as accurately as possible is important in science because it enables people to compare their observations with those of others.
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information about investigations, designs, or observations.

Earth and Space Science

Using mathematics and computational thinking to identify and describe patterns in Earth processes.
Describe similarities and differences between soil and rocks.
Identify and describe large and small objects made by Earth materials.

Life Science

Describe and sort animals into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors.
Recognize that animals need space, water, food, shelter, and air.
Demonstrate ways in which an animal’s habitat provides for its basic needs.
Constructing explanations and designing solutions.

Visual & Fine Arts

Art

Identify the elements of visual art including color, line, shape, texture, and space.
Identify the tools, materials, and techniques from a variety of two- and three-dimensional media such as drawing, printmaking, ceramics, or sculpture.
Create original two- and three-dimensional artworks to express ideas, experiences, or stories.