Goals for 1st Grade

Kindergarten Program:

Developing the skills to care for one’s body, belongings, and environment

Managing emotions in a way that enhances personal growth and social relations

Work and interact well with others to build relationships and complete assignments
Verbalize feelings/manage disappointment
Exhibit skills of an active member of the class community such as responsibility and trustworthiness.
Follow directions and instructions
Work independently and stays on task
Actively engage in investigation/activities
Listen attentively without interrupting
Take risks to attempt new tasks
Demonstrates responsible social/inter- personal behavior
Respect peers, adults, and property
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups

Listening and responding to words, conversations and stories

Decode using grade level phonics and word analysis skills when reading.
Apply developing understanding of phonetic rules when reading and writing.
Read grade level materials fluently and with understanding.
Discuss literature and responds to who, what, where, how, and plot sequence questions.
Compare and contrast adventures and characters within and between stories.
Identify reasons an author gives to support point in a text.
Print legibly.
Apply knowledge of basic rules of punctuation and capitalization as well as English grammar when writing.
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative, narrative, and persuasive texts.
Participate in shared research and writing projects; recalling information from experiences and/or gathering information to answer a question.
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Employ conventional English grammar when writing and speaking.
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify.

Building a sense of numbers, shapes and space through manipulation and exploration

Compare attributes: length, area, weight/mass, capacity, temperature using vocabulary and appropriate instruments.
Tell time to hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour on analogue clock face and/or digitally
Extend the counting sequence to 120 in writing and verbally
Use number sentences to solve one and two digit problems using addition & subtraction.
Use place value, compares (>,<,=) and order numbers to 100
Employ and recognize reasonable estimation strategies
Identify, count and combine the value of coins
Develop an understanding of data collection, recording, and analysis
Organize, represent and compare data on graphs and charts
Compose, compare, and analyze two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional shapes.
Use attributes to identify, compare, and contrast multi-dimensional figures including the use of fractions.
Understand use of nonstandard and standard measurements.
Replicate, execute, create, and extend age appropriate patterns.

Expressing ideas of self through a variety of mediums

Developing physical strength, control, and coordination of muscles to accomplish tasks

Demonstrate coordination and balance when running, jumping, hopping, kicking, and skipping.
Demonstrate appropriate hand-eye coordination when throwing and catching.
Exhibits core strength required to sit at desk and complete written assignments.
Show strength and control in small muscles within hands required to complete grade 1 work.

Connecting with our community and the environment

Observe the natural world with curiosity and communicates observations.
Recognize patterns in the natural world
Demonstrate fundamental understanding of living/non-living things, seasons, plants, birds, senses, motion, and states of matter.
Participate in the scientific process to hypothesize, test, observe, re-test, and report findings.
Demonstrate age appropriate understanding of the interconnectedness of life on Earth.
Determine locations of places and interpret information available on maps and globes.
Explain how the present is connected to the past in an age appropriate manner.
Demonstrate age appropriate understanding of wants vs. needs, community goods/services, community workers, and family/community structures.

Exposure to universal core values through Jewish holidays, stories and traditions