What to Expect in 1st Grade

First grade is a time of explosive growth for students. Over the course of the year your student will explore the following concepts aligned with the Oregon State Learning Standards:  

Language Arts:

• Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Reading Informational Text:

• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Foundational Skills:

• Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Writing:

• Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
• Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

Speaking and Listening:

• Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Language:

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content.

Mathematics:

Operations and Algebraic Thinking:

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

• Extend the counting sequence.
• Understand place value.
• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.

Measurement and Data:

• Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
• Tell and write time.
• Represent and interpret data.

Geometry:

• Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Science:

Physical Science:

• Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

Life Science:

• Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Earth Science:

• Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in the sky can be seen only at certain times of the day.

Social Studies:

Civics:

• Identify the purpose of rules and laws in the classroom and school.
• Describe the roles of people in authority in the school and community.

Geography:

• Use maps and globes to locate places in the school and community.

History:

• Compare life in the past to life today.
• Identify Oregon symbols and explain their meaning (e.g., Oregon state flag, beaver, Oregon Trail).

Economics:

• Explain the concept of goods and services and identify examples in the school and community.