Our First Grade Math Goals

By the end of first grade, child can:

                        identify the month on a calendar

                        identify the year on a calendar

                        identify today’s date on a calendar

                        identify today’s day of the week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.)

                        identify tomorrow’s date & day of the week

                        count by 1s from to 140

                        count by 2s to 20 (skip-count)

                        count by 5s to 50 (skip-count)

                        count by 10s to 100 (skip-count)

                        understand a penny is 1 cent

                        determine the value of a pile of pennies (ex.: 9 pennies = 9 cents)

                        understand a nickel is 5 cents

                        determine the value of a pile of nickels (ex.: 8 nickels = 40 cents)

                        understand a dime is 10 cents

                        determine the value of a pile of dimes

                        determine the value of a mixed pile of pennies, nickels, and dimes

                        identify the missing shapes in a pattern (regular polygons: square, triangle)

                        count backwards from 10 to 1

                        count from a number less than 100 by 10s (example 6, 16, 26…)

                        identify inches on a ruler (a ruler with both centimeters and inches)

                        use a ruler to accurately measure a line (in whole inches, no fractions yet)

                        draw a line measuring a specific length in inches (example: 3 inches)

                        tell time to the half hour (examples: 10:00, 8:30)

                        divide shapes (circle, square) in half

                        shade half of a shape (circle, square)

                        identify fractional parts of a whole (half, one-fourth)