Our 1st grade teachers are:

• Mrs. Koszuta
• Miss Price/Mrs. Pope
• Mrs. Washburn

To access the 1st Grade Supply List or specific teacher web pages, please click on the appropriate selection at the left-hand side of this page.

Important Beginning of the Year Information

1st Grade Expectations

Upon entering first grade, your child should be able to:

• Know first and last name
• Recite address and phone number
• Tie shoes
• Independently dress themselves for the weather (zip, snap, tie, etc)

Classroom Details

    So that your child can participate in a variety of craft activities throughout the year, you will be asked to provide the necessary funds for your child. Example expenses:

• Field Day T-shirts
• Holiday Crafts

    In cases of financial hardship, our PTO graciously and confidentially assists families.  Please notify your child's teacher or the building principal is any such concerns arise.

Curriculum

Math

    Math is manipulative-based as we move from the concrete to the symbolic stage.  Some of the concepts we will explore this year are as follows:

• Counting to 100
• Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s
• Identifying patterns
• Addition and subtraction
• Addition facts to sums of 20
• Measurement in inches and centimeters
• Money: pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters
• Telling time to the half-hour
• Problem solving
• Drawing diagrams to explain solutions
• Place value: ones, tens, and hundreds
• Geometry: lines, curves, shapes, solid objects 

Social Studies

• Communities: school, family, neighborhood
• Map skills: directions, map key, symbols
• Citizenship
• Holidays as part of our history and heritage 

Science

• Properties: sorting, classifying
• Rocks, fossils and dinosaurs
• Weather
• Mini-unit on magnets
• Other mini-unites integrated with Language Arts and non-fiction texts
• Heath: safety, good health habits, nutrition, social skills, appreciating differences 

Reading

Phonics/Word Study

• Letter recognition (use beginning and ending consonants as well as vowel sounds to identify words; distinguish the difference between vowels and consonants)
• Short vowels
• Long vowels and vowel patterns
• Initial, medial, and final consonants
• Plural -s
• Inflected endings -s, -ing, -ed
• Past and present tenses
• Blends and digraphs
• Sight words
• Nouns (speak in order to describe familiar persons, places or objects)
• Proper Nouns (special names)
• Verbs (action words)
• Adjectives (describing words)
• Compound Words
• Contractions

Comprehension Skills/Reading Strategies

• Predicting
• Classifying
• Main Idea
• Sequence
• Recall and Retell
• Contect Clues
• Cause and Effect
• Author's Purpose
• Fact and Fantasy
• Story Elements (Setting, Characters, Plot)
• Compare and Contrast
• Drawing Conclusions

Writing

• Types of Sentences
• Ending Punctuation
• Writing Journals - Creative Writing
• Introduction to the Writing Process