1st Grade Objectives 2007
Reading - Language - Spelling
1st Quarter:
Develop oral & listening skills
Develop phonemic awareness &
decoding skills
Extend reading vocabulary
Experience various literary & media
genres
Elements of language: Punctuation
Developing writing & using complete sentences
Create/use illustrations to respond to literature
Use classroom resources to support
writin
Write in journals

2nd Quarter:
Rhyming words
Syllables -decode one syllable words
Apply long/short vowels when decoding
Guided oral readings and shared readings
Read independently daily
Build vocabulary reading aloud
Make predictions about text
Identify complete sentences
Spell 3 & 4 letter short vowel words

3rd Quarter:
Three step oral directions
Decode age appropriate words
Compound words, word families,
blends & digraph
Predict outcomes during read-alouds
Explore non-fiction
Vary sentence types
Discuss & react to writing
Use nouns & verbs appropriately
4th Quarter:
Compound words- contractions
Long vowel rules- decoding
Read with increasing fluency
-confidence in guided reading
Recognize errors in reading as they occur & self correct
ABC order
Add ending to base words
Use nouns, verbs, pronouns
Math

1st Quarter:
Understand numbers; ways of
representing numbers, relationships among numbers & number systems
Count by 5s,2s,10s to 100
Use number line to determine more
or less
Solve simple story problems

2nd Quarter:
Interpret data and analyze
Use a variety of strategies to add & subtract
Sort objects with 2 attributes
Describe how objects are alike & different
3rd Quarter:
Place value to 99
Read & write numbers to 100
Fractions: 1/2 & 1/4
Recognize whole as 2 halves or
4 fourths
Compare whole numbers >,<,=
4th Quarter:
Time to hour & half hour
Days & months
Measure inch/centimeter
Measure wieght pound/kg
Money - coins up to 50 cents
Add & subtract facts to 18
Science - Health

1st Quarter:
Plants and animals & their
environments
Basic requirements of all
living things
Survival features of living things

2nd Quarter:
Constantly changing weather conditions
Weather patterns associated with seasons
3rd Quarter:
Day and Night Sky objects
Moon & Sun:
Illustrate positions of the sun
during day
4th Quarter:
Insects
Sea Life
Enviroment
Magnets
Plants
Social Studies
1st Quarter:
All About Me
Family & Community cultures
Maps & Globes
Citizenship & Responsibility
Pledge of Allegiance /meaning
2nd Quarter:
Cultures- learned behaviors including
- customs, beliefs, rules, food, clothing
People learn customs from culture
Maps & globes - models of specific places
3rd Quarter:
U.S. Constitution as basis for laws
Categorized rules & laws as members of a family, school, community
Relationship between local, state, and national governments
Understand voting as a way of making choices and decisions.
4th Quarter:
Tennessee History
Career Week