First graders know that they need to use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and a period or a question mark at the end. They learn to leave a space between words and sentences. The children will write stories that contain a few sentences in the beginning of the year and more sentences as the year progresses. They learn to focus on the topic about which they are writing. First graders learn to compose a variety of products.
First graders produce different forms of writing in small groups or independently.
They enjoy creating stories, poems, lists, notes, recipes and other types of writing. Mathematics First graders do lots of activities with the numbers 0 to 100. They learn to count up to thirty objects and to match numerals to sets containing the same number of objects. They will learn to read the number words, zero through ten. First graders learn to add and subtract.