First Grade Highlights August/September

Themes

Rules/ Manners

All about ME

Family

Homes

New Plants

Language Arts: Listening/Following Directions

ABC Order

Beginning/ Ending Sounds

Basic Sight Words

Rhyming Words

Color and Number Words

Writing Sentences

Journal Writing

Punctuation

Parts of a Book

Sequencing

Short Vowels

Letter Formation

Spacing

Math Patterns

Recognition, Counting, Writing,

Ordering Numbers to 50

Morning Calendar

Problem Solving

Combining Numbers

Numbers that come Before, After

and in Between

Graphs

Math Symbols

More/Less

Comparing Numbers & Quantities

Gathering info. Using Daily Data

October Skills Theme: Fall/Balance & Motion

Language Arts

*ABC order

*Following Directions/Listening

*Beginning/Ending Sounds

*Sight Words

*Drawing Conclusions

*Predicting Outcomes

*Writing Sentences

*Capitalization

*Punctuation

*Parts of a Book

*Sequencing

*Short Vowels

*Letter Formation

*Spacing when Writing

*Antonyms

*Elements of a Story

*Setting and Characters

*Problems and Solutions

Math

*Patterns

*Recognition, Counting, and Writing to

75

*Problem Solving – pictures and word

problems

*Beginning addition and subtraction

*Graphs

*Daily Data

*Math Symbols

*More/Less

*Comparing Numbers and Quantities

*Writing number words

*Estimation

*Number Lines

*Fact Families

*Counting backwards from 25

*Adding doubles

*Adding with 1 and 0

*Identify coins and their value

November Skills

Reading Skills Digraphs sh and th

“-all” words

Long vowels followed by silent “e”

Soft “c”

Soft “g”

Digraphs wh, ch, tch

Contractions

Inflected ending “–ed”

Long “e” spelled “ee”

Syllables for VCCV

Main Idea

Predicting

Cause/Effect

Author’s Purpose

Sequence

Compare/Contrast

Math Skills Addition facts to 10

Beginning subtraction

Reading word problems

Writing word problems

Problem Solving/ Reasoning

Identifying coins and value: penny, nickel,

dime and quarter

Daily Data

Calendar

Patterns

Probability

Sorting

Identifying, counting, & writing to 75

Fact Families

Counting & writing backwards to 25

Themes

Thanksgiving

Past and Present

December Skills

Language Arts/

Reading Skills Short and Long Vowels

Contractions

Alphabetical Order

Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

Sequencing

Writing complete sentences

Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence

Capitalizing the first letter of a proper

noun

Putting punctuation marks at the end of a

sentence

Spacing between words

Capitalizing Special Titles

Math Skills Addition and Subtraction to 12

Writing numbers to 70

Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s

Counting Back

Word problems (Writing and solving)

Doubles

Doubles plus one

Fact Families

Estimating

Themes Holidays

Past and Present

January Skills Reading/

Language Arts

Reading Fluency

Reading Comprehension

Neatness in handwriting

Proper Sentence Writing

Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

Cause/ Effect

Compound Words

Vowel “Y”

Final sounds

Plurals

Math

Addition/ Subtraction Facts

Reading, writing and working

word problems

Sequencing numbers to 100

Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s

to 100

Geometry and Fractions

Counting money

Themes

Air & Weather

February Skills

Reading/Language Arts

Cause/Effect

Punctuation

Compare/Contrast

Dictionary skills

Nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Ending Sounds

Math

Ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd,

3rd)

Place value

Odd & even numbers

Counting by 5s and 10s to

100

Counting by 2’s to 50

Ordering the days and

months (before, after,

between)

Plane shapes

Geometric Solids

Symmetry

Slides, Flips, & Turns

Fractions

Themes

Valentine’s Day

President’s Day

Black History

Mardi Gras

Local city and state leaders

March Skills

First Grade

Reading/ Language

Arts Skills Identifying, Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs

Conventional spellings

Long e; ea

Long o; oa, ow

Long i; ie, igh

Vowels ew, ue, ui

Compund Words

Dolch Words List

Theme

Author’s Purpose

Realism and Fantasy

Character, Setting, and Plot

Math Addition fluency (our goal is to be able to

solve 40-50 problems in five minutes)

Subtraction fluency

Basic facts: +2 and -2

Counting to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s

Place Value

Data

Graphs

Telling time

Money

Themes Human Body/Spring

April Skills

First Grade

Reading/ Language

Arts Skills Multiple Meaning Words

Pronouns

Exclamation (!)

Writing for varied purposes: lists, thank you

notes

Writing complete sentences to form a

paragraph

Reading comprehension

Listening comprehension

Reading fluency

Combination /wh/

Digraphs: ei, ew,

Suffixes: -er, -est, -ful

Prefixes: un-, pre-, dis-

Review of consonant digraphs

Review of vowel digraphs

Conventional spellings

Math Addition fluency (our goal is to be able to

solve 40-50 problems in five minutes)

Subtraction fluency

Place Value

Data

Graphs

Telling time

Money

Themes Animals Two by Two/Oceans

May Skills

First Grade

Reading/ Language

Arts Skills Multiple Meaning Words

Pronouns

Exclamation (!)

Writing for varied purposes: lists, thank you

notes

Writing complete sentences to form a

paragraph

Reading comprehension

Listening comprehension

Reading fluency

Vowel patterns

R-controlled vowels

Review of combinations

Review of diphthongs

Review of final, stable, syllables

Review of trigraphs

Conventional spellings

Math Addition fluency (our goal is to be able to

solve 40-50 problems in five minutes)

Subtraction fluency

Money: counting mixed coins with accuracy

Estimating, measuring, & comparing length

with non-standard units, inches, & feet

Perimeter

Estimating, measuring, & comparing

capacity

Adding two-digit numbers

Themes Animals Two by Two

Map skills/Oceans