First Grade Expectations
Upon entering first grade students should be able to:
- Identify and form all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- State individual letter sounds
- Recite the alphabet
- Distinguish vowels from consonants
- Sound out two to three letter words
- Write their full name
- Hold a pencil correctly
- Hold and use scissors correctly
- Distinguish a statement from a question
- Count up to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's
- Count backwards
- Identify numbers between 0 and 100
- Correctly form all numbers
- Read a calendar
- Identify geometric shapes
- Identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters and know the associated amounts
- Tell time to the hour