Grade guides · Usually ages 6 and 7

What children usually learn in Grade 1

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Adding and taking away within 20, and within 10 without counting on fingers 1.OA
  • Counting, reading and writing numbers to 120, and knowing tens and ones 1.NBT
  • Adding within 100 using tens and ones 1.NBT
  • Measuring length with small units end to end, and telling the time to the hour and half hour 1.MD
  • Sorting answers into a simple chart and asking questions of it 1.MD
  • Cutting shapes into halves and quarters 1.G

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Reading

  • Sounding out words with common spelling patterns, and reading common words on sight RF.1.3
  • Reading aloud with accuracy and expression RF.1.4
  • Retelling stories with their key details, and the lesson they hold RL.1.2
  • Finding the main topic and key details in an information text RI.1.2
  • Writing a few sentences about something that happened, or what they think W.1.1, W.1.3
  • Spelling words by their sounds, with capitals and full stops L.1.2

Practise it with

Science

  • Sound made by things shaking, and seeing only when there is light 1-PS4
  • How plants and animals use their parts to live 1-LS1
  • How young plants and animals are like, and not quite like, their parents 1-LS3
  • Patterns of the sun, the moon and the stars, and daylight through the year 1-ESS1
  • Watching closely and recording, and building something to solve a problem K-2-ETS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Maps and globes: symbols, a legend, land and water D2.Geo, K-2
  • Left, right, near and far, and following a route D2.Geo, K-2
  • How the places near home are used: homes, shops and parks D2.Geo, K-2
  • Hills, rivers, lakes and coasts D2.Geo, K-2
  • Day and night, and the seasons through the year D2.Geo, K-2

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History

  • Their family's story, and generations D2.His, K-2
  • What changed and what stayed the same, then and now D2.His, K-2
  • Months, seasons and celebrations through the year D2.His, K-2
  • Asking someone who was there, and listening D2.His, K-2
  • People who help in the community, and working together D2.Civ, K-2

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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