Mrs. Gierok and first graders hard at work.

Sheridan Elementary has two first grade classrooms taught by Denise Gierok and Molly Privette. Our first grade teachers' daily schedules can be found in the contact information section.

All first graders will learn the following skills at Sheridan.  Teachers differ in how the knowledge is presented, and go into other subjects in addition to the ones presented here, but the following is a simple framework on our first grade experience.

Expectations:

- Read and write her/his name, address, and phone number
- Follow simple directions
- Read at least 25 books for entertainment or information and retell them in his/her own words.
- Match sounds with letters
- Read word families such as cat, rat, bat, hat, sat.
- Sound out words, such

Attentive listeners in Mrs. Privette's first grade.

as boat, happy, pen, and frog
- Recognize and read words used often
- Figure out new words and pronunciation
- Recognize reading mistakes and apply strategies to correct them.
- Count by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's to at least 100.
- Add and subtract to 99
- Build number families to 18 (8+5=13, 13-5=8, etc.)
- Read math symbols such as <,>,=,+,-.
- Divide groups into equal parts
- Name and draw shapes such as circle, rectangle, square, and triangle
- Count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters and exchange coin values (one nickel = 5 pennies)
- Read and use a calendar
- Write and tell the time to the half hour
- Measure length, height, area and capacity
- Conduct a survey
- Sort, count, and classify objects
- Measure in inches and centimeters
- Use math to understand and solve problems

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