Language Arts
First grade students will receive instruction in reading, writing, and listening, speaking, and viewing. By the end of the 1st grade, students will be able to:
- Apply more advanced phonics skills to decode words
- Recognize a bank of sight words
- Begin monitoring and self-correcting their reading
- Relate what they read and hear to their own experiences
- Produce text through speaking and writing
- Begin using the writing process to plan and produce writing
- write a story that shows focus and organization
- Expand sentences and recognize paragraphs
- Apply basic rules of language and spelling
- Show evidence of the appropriate use of more formal language registers
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Mathematics
All students will be actively engaged in developing mathematical understandings in real and relevant contexts. By the end of the 1st grade, students will be able to:
- Understand and use the concept of ones and tens in the place value number system
- Represent quantity with numbers, models, diagrams, and number sentences
- Add and subtract small numbers
- Use tools for measuring length, weight, capacity, and time (hour, half hour, days in week, months in year, duration or sequence of events)
- Observe, create, identify, classify, describe, and build basic geometric shapes
- Arrange and describe objects in space
- Solve simple problems, including geometric ones involving spatial relationships, and use the strategy of making a picture or diagram
- Pose questions and collect data, and organize and interpret data represented by tally marks, pictures, and bar graphs
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Science
First grade students will use inquiry to focus on questions about the world around them, including questions related to earth science, physical science, and life science. By the end of the 1st grade, students will be able to:
- Observe, measure, and communicate weather data
- Identify what things can do when put together and what cannot be done when things are not put together
- Create drawings that correctly depict a specific thing being described
- Make observations, ask questions about, and investigate patterns
- Investigate light, sound, and magnets
- Note repeating patterns in shadows, weather, and daily needs of plants and animals
- Demonstrate awareness of the characteristics and basic needs of living things
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Social Studies
First grade students will explore history, geography, and government through the study of selected heroes from American history. In addition, 1st graders will continue to acquire basic economic concepts. By the end of the 1st grade, students will be able to:
- Identify and describe the lives of significant historical American figures
- Explain how American folktale's characterize our national heritage
- Describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with selected historical figures
- Locate his or her own city, county, state, nation and continent on a simple map or globe
- Describe the positive character traits of the selected historical figures
- Explain the meaning of patriotic language in selected American songs
- Identify, describe, and/or explain basic ideas related to goods, services, scarcity, producers and consumers, and spending and saving
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Assessment
- Throughout the year, classroom teachers will assess each student's growth and progress toward achievement of the learning goals specified in the state curriculum (GPS or QCC if GPS has not been implemented).
- These classroom assessments will be used to guide instruction in order to provide every child with the opportunity to learn and to succeed.
- Students will be made aware of the performance expectations for 1nd grade and will acquire self-monitoring and self-assessing skills to help them maximize their achievement.
- In the spring, Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies will be administered to 1th graders in order to provide a standardized measure of student learning.
- Beginning in the year the Georgia Performance Standards are implemented for a content area, the CRCT will directly align with those GPS.
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