WELCOME TO FIRST GRADE AT CHINA SPRING ELEMENTARY!

First graders are wonderfully equipped to astonish us with how much they can grow in just one year! This foundational development is crucial for success in second grade, and all the years beyond. That means we think first grade is a pretty big deal. We want this once-in-a-lifetime year to be a productive and wonderful one for you and your child.

STANDARDS BASED REPORTS CARDS

If you were with us in Kindergarten, our report cards will look familiar. In first grade we’ve chosen to use a standards based report card to help give you the most accurate information we can about your child’s early academic progress. Next year, in second grade, your child will begin to receive a more conventional report card with numerical grades.

READING & WRITING

This year your student will bridge the gap between early reading skills and the increased fluency necessary for success in later grades. They will acquire more sophisticated phonetic and comprehension skills. We will write compositions of multiple sentences with plots that include a beginning, middle and end. Young writers will begin to use editing and revision skills as they learn to recognize errors and ways to improve their writing.

READING COMPREHENSION AND ORAL READING SKILLS

Retelling stories
Making predictions & inferences
Discussing the author’s purposes for writing a text
Forming connections between texts, the world, and themselves
Exercises to improve reading fluency and reading skills

WORD STUDIES (PHONICS)

Decoding (sounding out) strategies
Spelling patterns including
- CVC Words (like cat, dot, sip)
- Consonant Blends
- Consonant Digraphs
- and Silent e
Inflectional endings, compound words and contractions
Parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions and adverbs

WRITING

Handwriting
Composing sentences with proper capitalization and punctuation
Writing original fiction and nonfiction pieces including stories, letters, opinions, procedural texts and early research skills
Writing in response to reading; including using text evidence to support ideas
Editing and revising their writing

MATH

Place Value Up To 120
- Build (objects), Pictorial, Standard Form, Expanded Form, Compare, Order, Recite Forward & Backward, Skip-count (2, 5, 10), 10 More/10 Less

Coins
- Name & Value (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters), Value of a Collection of Coins

Addition & Subtraction
- Equations with Unknowns (any of the terms), Word Problems- represent, solve, explain

Equal Sign- understanding that each side represents the same value

2D Shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus, hexagon)
- Identification & Attributes, Partition- 2 & 4 parts

3D Shapes (cube, rectangular prism, triangular prism, cylinder, sphere, cone)
- Identification & Attributes

Clock Time (analog & digital)
- Hour & Half-Hour
Length
- Nearest Whole Number of Units

Graphs (Picture & Bar-Type Graphs)
- Collect, Sort, & Organize Data, Draw Conclusions, Generate & Answer Questions

Personal Financial Literacy
- Personal Financial Choices, Jobs, Needs & Wants, Goods & Services

China Spring Primary School

Grade Levels

Pre-Kindergarten

Kindergarten

1st Grade