Charles E. Walters Elementary School

FIRST GRADE TEACHERS

WRITING GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Use proper conventions (capitalization, punctuation and phonetic spelling)
• Use the writing process within narrative, informational and opinion writing:
  • Generate an idea
  • Plan
  • Write with details
  • Revise
  • Edit
  • Publish

READING GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Master high frequency words
• Identify and use long and short vowel sounds
• Use a variety of word-solving strategies when reading independently
• Retell the important events in a story
• Identify facts in an informational book

MATHEMATICS GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Count to 120, starting at any number
• Add fluently within 10
• Use a variety of strategies to add and subtract within 20
• Solve word problems using addition and subtraction

SCIENCE GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Understand the scientific method
• Explore
  • Sound
  • Light
  • Animals and plants survival
  • The Sun and Shadows

SOCIAL STUDIES GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Explore and value diversity
• Increase understanding of multi-cultural traditions
• Establish the need for rules and communities
• Identify community helpers and their impact on the community
• Explore our nation's symbols, traditions, holidays and celebrations  

LANGUAGE GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Practicing high frequency words

• Click here for the high frequency words slideshows

• Form categories

• Match a picture to an oral statement

• Use sentences to describe pictures

• Title pictures and stories

• State main idea

• Use beginning sentences

• Predict outcomes

• Identify nouns and verbs

• Explore grammar, sentence structure and punctuation

• Explore antonyms and synonyms

• Use contractions, compound words and possessives

• Follow A, B, C, (alphabetical) order

• Practice the skills to understand and follow directions

• Write a 3-line story

READING GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Identify and use initial and final consonant sounds

• Identify and use vowel sounds

• Construct experience stories

• Read orally

• Use signal words

• Inter main idea

• Sequence events with signal words

• Practice the skills to understand and follow directions

MATHEMATICS GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Count using number words and symbols to increasing levels

• Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s

• Add facts

• Subtract facts

• Explore equal fractions of whole numbers

• Collect and classify items

• Tally items

• Graph and chart events

• Predict outcomes

• Judge time

• Count money

• Use the calendar

• Measure other items using standard and non-standard means

• Solve problems

• Explore place value

SCIENCE GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Formulate hypotheses

• Use scientific procedures to test hypotheses

• Explore dynamics of growing from seed to plant

• Compare and contrast characteristics of living and non-living things

• Demonstrate environmental awareness through personal action

• Explore properties of objects

• Use information from the five senses to explore things:  taste, touch, hear, sight, smell

SOCIAL STUDIES GOALS FOR STUDENTS:

• Explore and value diversity

• Increase understanding of multi-cultural traditions

• Establish equity as a cornerstone of American democracy

• Explore common human characteristics

• Relate home and family rules to community rules

• Establish the need for rules

• Explore our nation’s symbols, traditions, holidays and celebrations

• Use maps and globes to discover boundaries

• Practice using directional arrows

• Compare and contrast sizes of bodies of land and water