- Shows respect for others (sensitive and tolerant of others, respecting rights & property of others, good manners, works and plays well with others)
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Shows respect for school environment (materials, workspace, belongings)
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Follows rules and routines of the school (classroom, playground, and hallways)
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Exhibits self control
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Takes responsibility for own actions
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Contributes positively in a group
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Listens attentively to others
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Follows directions
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Works independently
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Uses time constructively
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Seeks help when necessary
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Completes work
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Shows best effort
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Expresses ideas clearly when speaking
- Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)
- Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)
- Applies long and short vowel sounds when decoding words
- Decodes regularly spelled one and two syllable words
- Knows common consonant digraphs
- Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight
- Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Reads and comprehends at mid-year grade level
- Reads and comprehends at end-of-year grade level
- Uses pictures and story details to describe setting and events
- Retells stories, including key details, and understands central message
- Uses key details to describe characters, settings, and major events in a story
- Uses key ideas and details to ask/answer questions
- Identify words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeals to the senses
- Explains differences between types of texts (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry)
- Compares/contrasts adventures of characters in stories
- Asks/answers questions about key details
- Identifies the main topic and retells key details
- Ask and answer questions to understand unknown words
- Knows and uses text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, pictures)
- Compares/contrasts two texts on the same topic
- Narrative Writing
- Structure: Writes sequenced stories with leads, transitions and endings
- Development: Includes details such as characters’ feelings and actions
- Informational Writing
- Structure: Organizes writing to teach about a topic
- Development: Includes facts about a topic
- Opinion Writing
- Structure: Organizes writing to share an opinion using a lead, transitions and an ending
- Development: Includes details and at least one reason for the opinion
- Planning: Generates ideas and can sketch across pages to plan writing
- Revising: Reviews pictures and writing to add details
- Editing: Rereads writing to check for punctuation and appropriate use of capital letters
- Spelling: Applies grade-level word study concepts and uses the word wall to help with spelling
- Writing Habits: Draws and writes with grade-level stamina, volume and engagement
- Handwriting: Writes legibly and efficiently
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Add and subtract within 20
- Work with addition and subtraction equations
- Extend the counting sequence
- Understand place value
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
- Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units
- Tell and write time
- Represent and interpret data
- Reason with shapes and their attributes
FIRST GRADE
LEARNING PROFILE
The emphasis at Rowe School is on laying the foundation for Yarmouth Core Values and Life Role Outcomes. As a member of the Rowe School community, your child is working towards being safe, kind, helpful, and polite and developing positive work habits.
Responsible Community Member
Self-Directed Learner
READING
Foundational Skills
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Phonics and Word Recognition
Fluency
Literature
Informational Text
WRITING Text Types and Purposes:
Writing Process:
MATHEMATICS
The following goals are at the core of our Grade 1 curriculum. Please note that these are important goals, but they are not the only concepts to which students will be exposed at this grade level. Students will have a rich curriculum, and their experiences in math will introduce them to many new concepts that will deepen over time.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Measurement and Data
Geometry