First Grade Highlights:

This year, you’ll grow as a reader, writer, thinker, and friend. You’ll build new skills in every subject and discover how learning connects to your world.

Here’s what’s ahead this year:

• Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Notice feelings, show kindness, work well with others.

• Reading: From sounding out words to reading whole books.

• Language Arts: Write sentences, spell, and share your ideas.

• Math: Count to 120 and beyond, add and subtract, explore shapes and time.

• Social Studies: Families, communities, rules, maps, history.

• Science: Weather, plants, animals, matter, light, and sound.

• Art: Create with colors, shapes, and textures.

• Music: Sing, keep rhythm, listen, and express feelings.

• P.E.: Move, stretch, and build strength through play.

🌟 Pick Your Path! 🌟

Most daily lessons have little icons to show you different ways to learn:

Activities:

👁   Eye = Look and learn (Visual)
🎧 Headphones = Listen and learn (Auditory)
✍️ Pencil = Read and write (Reading/Writing)
🤲 Hand = Move and do (Kinesthetic)

Sometimes you’ll do one, two, or all four. Other times, you and your grown-up can choose the ones you like best. Follow the icons and have fun!

💡 Lightbulb = Spots in the lesson where you can pause to think more deeply and answer a question.

📚 Here’s to a great year of learning!