First Grade: What Will They Learn?

In first grade, your child will have to interact with his classroom teacher as well as art, music, and physical education teachers. The school day will become longer. He'll eat at school and go to and from school with limited assistance. He'll also have some homework assignments. Find out what else your child will learn this year.

Read at least 100 sight words.

Locate the main idea and details in stories.

Recall the sequence of events in oral and written stories.

Print words legibly.

Write words legibly in manuscript form.

Capitalize the first word in a sentence and use the period and question mark at the end of a sentence.

Recognize the singular and plural forms of nouns.

Count to 100 by one's, two's, five's, and ten's.

Write the numerals to 100.

Add and subtract numbers up to and from 10.

Use simple maps and globes.

Make more detailed observations of the natural world.

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