Welcome to Grade 1

Our Teachers

Using phonics (matching letters and sounds) and word analysis skills to figure out unfamiliar words when reading and writing
Getting facts and information from different writings
Writing about a topic, supplying some facts, and providing some sense of opening and closing
Taking part in conversations about topics and texts being studied by responding to the comments of others and asking questions to clear up any confusion
Producing and expanding complete simple and compound statements, questions, commands, and exclamations
Identifying the correct meaning for a word with multiple meanings, based on the sentence or paragraph in which the word is used (for example, deciding whether the word bat means a flying mammal or a club used in baseball)
Learning to think about finer distinctions in the meanings of near-synonyms (for example, marching, prancing, strutting, strolling, walking)
Memorizing sight words for first grade (sight words are high-frequency words)

Solving addition and subtraction word problems in situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing (for example, a taking from situation would be: “Five apples were on the table. I ate some apples. Then there were three apples. How many apples did I eat?”)
Quickly and accurately adding with a sum of 10 or less, and quickly and accurately subtracting from a number 10 or less (for example, 2 + 5, 7 – 5)
Understanding what the digits mean in two-digit numbers (place value)
Using understanding of place value to add and subtract (for example, 38 + 5, 29 + 20, 64 + 27, 80 – 50)
Measuring lengths of objects by using a shorter object as a unit of length
Making composite shapes by joining shapes together, and dividing circles and rectangles into halves or fourths

$A proctractor, an example of a right angle, and ruler$