End of Year Checklist

By the end of First grade, you child should know:


Reading:
  • Phonemic Awareness - understand that words are made up of sounds
  • All the letters of the alphabets (Aa-Zz)
  • All of the letter sounds
  • All of the short and long vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u)
  • Vowel pairs (example, rain, hay, boy, soil)
  • Beginning and ending blends (example, beginning: bl-blue, gr-grapes, fl-flat,ending: ng-king tch-watch nk-sink)
  • Word families (example, -at, -ot, -ed, -it, -un, etc.)
  • Phonemic skills - The ability to sound out or words or blend.
  • Know that two sounds may sound the same but have different spelling patterns (ex. -ce & -s- )
  • Word endings (example, -ed, -ing, -s)
  • 70% of the high-frequency words
  • Sequencing (Beginning, middle, and end or first, next, and last)
  • Oral retelling of a story and identify the setting (where it takes place), main characters (who the story is about), plot (what it's about)
  • Use affixes as a clue to the meaning of a new word (ex. unacceptable means not acceptable)
  • Use context clue to the meaning of a new word
  • Comprehension - Able to answer simple questions after reading or listening to a story.
  • Compare and contrast (What is the same and what is different)
  • Use high-frequency words in context (know what they mean)
  • High Frequency Word List

Writing: 

  • Print upper and lowercase letters
  • Use tools to produce and publish writing
  • Research a topic and write about it
  • Informative Pieces (include the topic, supply facts, and then summary statement)
  • Opinion Pieces (state the opinion, reasons for the opinion, and closing)
  • Use of temporal words in narrative pieces (ex. first, next, then, finally)
  • How-to pieces (using temporal words)
  • Adding details (ex. adjectives, locations, times,)
  • Use of conjunctions (and, but, or, so)
  • Capitalize dates and names
  • How to write one or two complete sentences about a given a topic using proper capitalization and punctuation (., ?, !)
  • Conventional spelling (ex. was, not wuz)
  • Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (ex. I, me, my, them, their)

Math:

  • Counting forward and backward
  • Place values
  • Addition and subtraction up to 20
  • Counts and writes numbers 1-120
  • Adds up to 100
  • Patterns
  • Tens and ones (place value)
  • Skip counting (ex. 2's, 5's, lo's)
  • ordinal numbers (ex. lst, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc,)
  • Time on the hour and half hour (ex. 1:00, 1:30)
  • Counting coins (ex. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars)
  • How to read a graph
  • How to make a graph
  • Comparing lengths of objects
  • Attributes of shapes 
  • What number comes before, between, and after
  • Less than and greater than (ex. 5<7)
  • Calendar reading
  • Read a problem and be able to write an addition or subtraction sentence
  • Math Vocabulary 
    • Pair (2 shoes in a pair)
    • Sum (the answer to an addition problem)
    • Difference (the answer to a subtraction problem)
    • Fewest
    • Greatest 
    • Equal
    • Most
    • Least
    • + add, plus
    • - subtract, minus
Science:
  • Explore and experiment with surrounding objects
  • State facts about the human body, sea and ocean, life, animals, electricity and magnetism, sound and lights, matter (solids, gase, and liquids), etc.
  • Conduct and record observations using words, graphs, pictures, etc.
Social Science: 
  • State facts about members of the community 
  • Using a map to locate communities (one's own and other's)
  • Simple understanding of how technology and the media plays a role in society
  • Understand the significant of rules in society (classroom, community, globally)
  • Familiar with American Holidays and significant events




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