Summary of 1st Grade Learning

English
•	Letter sounds, blends, and formation
•	Parts of speech
•	Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future
•	Sentence structure: capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
•	Different types of text
•	Purpose of reading
•	Phonological awareness
•	Concepts of print
•	Phonics and word recognition
•	Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
•	Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
•	Able to retell stories and demnstrate understanding of central message or lesson
•	Describe characters, setting, and major events in story
•	Identify who is telling the story
•	Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories
•	Writing paragraphs
•	Different purposes of writing
•	Writing short stories, persuasive papers, how to papers, and poetry
•	Speaking and listening skills
•	Vocabulary acquisition

Math
•	Addition facts through 20
•	Subtraction facts through 20
•	Addition and subtraction relationships within 20
•	Measurement
•	Place value to 120
•	Number patterns to 120
•	Data and graphing
•	Addition of two-digit numbers
•	Subtraction of two-digit numbers
•	Geometry
•	Equal shares: halves and fourths
•	Time: hour and half hour
•	Money
•	Measurement

Social Studies
•	Democratic Values: common good, equality, freedom, and liberty
•	Civics
•	Geographic Representations: political and physical maps
•	Physical features of continents and oceans in the world
•	Cultural and environmental characteristics of your community
•	How climate, weather, and natural disasters affect your community
•	Explain how people improve their communities and the environment
•	Historically significant events
•	Important people in history
•	Cultural holidays
•	Compare facts and opinions in stories and narratives from the past
•	Compare life in the past to life today
•	Needs and wants
•	Explain cause and effect

Science
•	Graphing weather
•	Changes in weather
•	Camouflage and mimicry
•	Requirements of plants and animals to survive
•	Describe how living things have structures to help them survive
•	Identify ways offsprings are like their parents
•	Recognize that some traits of living things are inherited while other are learned
•	Describe how an organism's behavior is determined by the environment
•	Sound and vibration