First Grade Objectives
The first grade academic objectives are listed below:
- Demonstrate the ability to count by 2's, 5’s, and 10’s
- Demonstrate an understanding of ordinal positioning of numbers (1st through 10th)
- Solve basic problems related to simple fractions
- Solve basic problems related to addition and subtraction through 10
- Write story problems (basic addition and subtraction facts)
- Recognize and count money - penny, nickel, dime, quarter
- Recognize a picture or object showing more, less, greater than, less than
- Sort and classify by color, size, shape
- Create and extend patterns
- Listen to a story and retell in logical order
- Give and follow simple two-step directions
- Recognize and say simple compound words
- Recognize and repeat rhyming words, beginning consonants, and ending consonants
- Understand basic word patterns
- Write and illustrate sentences
- Identify the main idea of a story
- Use descriptive words about people, places and things
- Begin sentences with a capital letter, end with correct punctuation
- Correct spelling for frequently used words
- Order letters of the alphabet
- Make a personal dictionary of frequently used words
- Identify number positioning - tens and ones
- Recognize time - hour and half hour
- Recognize calendar - days of the week, months
- Addition of two-digit numbers - no regrouping
- Subtraction of two-digit numbers - no regrouping
