Grade 1

In English language arts students will learn to...

Ask and answers questions about key details in a fiction and nonfiction text
Use key details and illustrations, describes characters, settings, and major events in a story
Distinguish between short vowel and long vowel sounds when reading and writing, as well as recognizing consonant digraphs and other common vowel teams
Recognize and apply grade-level phonics and understanding of word parts in decoding words in order to read and spell
Recognize and read words with inflectional endings (ex. -s, -ed, -ing) and irregularly spelled words (sight words)
Write narratives to tell a story with two or more sequenced events, including details, transition words, and an ending
Use verb to show past, present, and future, as well as frequently occurring nouns, pronouns, adjectives, conjunctions, determiners and prepositions

In Math students will learn to...

Solve word problems with use addition of three whole numbers and whose sum is less than or equal to 20
Add and subtract fluently within 10, and use different strategies, including properties of operations, to add and subtract within 20
Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120, and write a number than matches a group of objects within 120
Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones

In Social Studies students will learn to...

Distinguish between needs and wants
Describe the roles resources play in our daily lives
Describe how we depend upon people with specialized jobs
Distinguish between goods and services

Online Leveled Reading

Brain Pop Jr.

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I'm originally from Toronto, Canada, and I am very happy to be back for my fourth year at AST teaching Grade 1! After graduating with my B.A. from University of Toronto and then B.Ed. from University of Ottawa, I spent a year in Korea teaching pre-K, before moving to Taiwan. I love teaching our youngest learners because not only do they make me feel young, but supporting their physical, academic, emotional growth is so exciting and important to their first year of school. Outside of school, I love spending quality time with my husband and two young sons, including a baby in palliative care since birth. This unique family situation has taught me to appreciate and celebrate all the small moments in life and share that mindset with my students as well.