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

• Shows respect for others (sensitive and tolerant of others, respecting rights & property of others, good manners, works and plays well with others)

• Shows respect for school environment (materials, workspace, belongings)

• Follows rules and routines of the school (classroom, playground, and hallways)

• Exhibits self control

• Takes responsibility for own actions

• Contributes positively in a group

  Self-Directed Learner

• Listens attentively to others

• Follows directions

• Works independently

• Uses time constructively

• Seeks help when necessary

• Completes work

• Shows best effort

• Expresses ideas clearly when speaking

The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core.  It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear.  Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.  

Foundational Skills: 

• Reading Habits: Reads independently with stamina and engagement

• Print Concepts: Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)

• Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)

• Phonics: Decodes long and short vowel sounds, regularly spelled one and two syllable words, and common consonant digraphs

• Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight 

• Fluency: Reads texts with accuracy and fluency at grade level 

• Comprehension: Comprehends texts at grade level 

Narrative Reading:

• Summarize: Retells major events in a story, including characters, setting and key details 

• Compare and Contrast: Identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories 

Informational Reading: 

• Summarize: Identifies the main topic and retells key details

• Text Features: Uses text features to locate key facts or information

• Analysis: Compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics

Text Types and Purposes:

• 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

Writing Process:

• 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

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

• 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

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