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GRADE 1 SUGGESTED OBJECTIVES     Print This Page

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TOPICS THAT SHOULD BE COVERED THIS YEAR AND DOCUMENTED. THEY ARE INTENDED AS SUGGESTIONS. YOUR STATE MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

Social Studies
Holidays, traditions, and customs. Our American Heritage. Different cultures at different times.
Family, school, neighborhood, community. Farm and zoo. Neighborhood helpers.
Jobs and careers. Social skills and responsibilities. Basic geography terms.
Making and reading a simple neighborhood map

Science
Grouping and classification. Living and nonliving things. Animals. Pets. Farm animals.
Zoo and circus animals. Woodland animals. Common birds. Plant and animal habitats.
Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers. Weather and seasons. Day and night. Solids, liquids, gases.
Air and water. Magnets. Fire and temperature. Sun, moon, stars, planets. Simple machines.
Beginning experimentation. Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts
Reading. Phonetic analysis. Structural analysis. Establishing sight vocabulary.
Reading informally: names, labels, signs. Simple pantomimes and dramatic play.
Creating stories and poems. Telling favorite stories. Organizing ideas and impressions.
Enunciation and pronunciation. Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity.
Book reports and critiques. Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion.
Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing. Beginning spelling.
Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives. Introduction to punctuation and capitalization.
Manuscript handwriting. Handling books. Using table of contents.

Health and Safety
Personal hygiene. Dental health. Good eating habits. Exercise and rest. Diseases.
Common cold. Dressing for weather and activity. Safety rules to and from school

Mathematics
Counting and writing to 100. Counting by 2's to 40. Simple number patterns.
Beginning ordinal numbers. Using 10 as a basic unit. Simple properties of zero.
Simple properties of sets. Beginning addition and subtraction facts. Number-line use.
Place value and numeration. Concepts of quantity and size. Concepts of equality and inequality.
Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers. Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately. Estimation.
Geometric patterns and figures. Basic customary and metric measurement.
Recognizing time: clock and calendar. Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter.
Solving simple word problems. Basic probability and chance. Basic chart and graph concepts