First Grade

By learning reading skills now it will provide the basic foundation and bring success throughout their years in school and after. First-graders also improve on writing and mathematics skills.

All first-graders will learn the following skills at HPPA. The following is a simple framework on our first grade experience.

Expectations

At the end of First Grade, your child should be able to:

• Read and write her/his name, address, and phone number
• Follow simple directions
• Read at least 25 books for entertainment or information and retell them in his/her own words.
• Match sounds with letters
• Read word families such as cat, rat, bat, hat, sat.
• Sound out words, such as boat, happy, pen, and frog
• Recognize and read words used often
• Figure out new words and pronunciation
• Recognize reading mistakes and apply strategies to correct them.
• Count by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's to at least 100.
• Add and subtract to 99
• Build number families to 18 (8+5=13, 13-5=8, etc.)
• Read math symbols such as <,>,=,+,-.
• Divide groups into equal parts
• Name and draw shapes such as circle, rectangle, square, and triangle
• Count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters and exchange coin values (one nickel = 5 pennies)
• Read and use a calendar
• Write and tell the time to the half hour
• Measure length, height, area and capacity
• Conduct a survey
• Sort, count, and classify objects
• Measure in inches and centimeters
• Use math to understand and solve problems