1st grade homeschool curriculum
A full curriculum, starting at your child's level, with lessons connected to their interests and progress you can see.
Read a word, then match its picture
Your child sounds out short words like map and pan and matches each one to its picture. Hear it again replays the directions.
- Lesson
- Read a three-sound word
- Practice
- Match each word to its picture
Your parent dashboard
- Today
- Each subject's lesson, and whether it's done
- Grades
- Every submission graded instantly, with written feedback, so you never grade
- Records
- Attendance log and learning summary, ready to export
- Documents
- Transcripts and state-aware compliance drafts, written for you and ready to sign
1st grade scope and sequence
Math5 units · 23 skills
Numbers to 1205 skills
- Count forward to 120 from any number
- Read and write numbers to 120
- Represent a two-digit number as tens and ones
- Compare two two-digit numbers
- Skip count by twos, fives, and tens
Addition and subtraction to 206 skills
- Add two numbers within 20
- Subtract within 20
- Use a related fact to solve a subtraction
- Find the unknown in an addition sentence
- Solve a one-step story problem within 20
- Explain a strategy used to add
Fractions as fair shares3 skills
- Partition a shape into halves
- Partition a shape into fourths
- Explain that equal shares must be the same size
Geometry4 skills
- Identify a two-dimensional shape by its attributes
- Compose a new shape from two shapes
- Identify a three-dimensional solid
- Distinguish a defining from a non-defining attribute
Measurement, time, and data5 skills
- Measure length with repeated units
- Tell time to the hour and half hour
- Identify coins and their values
- Read a picture graph to answer a question
- Organize data into a simple table
Reading4 units · 17 skills
Decoding5 skills
- Read a word with a short vowel sound
- Read a word with a consonant blend
- Read a word with a silent e
- Read a common irregular word by sight
- Break a longer word into syllables
Fluency3 skills
- Read a short passage without stopping at each word
- Use punctuation to guide how you read aloud
- Reread a sentence that did not make sense
Story comprehension5 skills
- Describe the setting of a story
- Explain what a character wants
- Retell the events of a story in order
- Identify the problem and the solution
- Explain the lesson of a story
Informational reading4 skills
- Identify the topic of an informational text
- Name a fact you learned from a text
- Use a picture or a caption to add information
- Ask a question about a topic after reading
Writing and language4 units · 15 skills
Sentence writing4 skills
- Write a complete sentence about a picture
- Begin a sentence with a capital letter
- End a sentence with the right mark
- Write two sentences about one topic
Kinds of writing5 skills
- Write a short story about something that happened
- Write a sentence that tells a fact
- Write a sentence that gives an opinion
- Write a short note to someone
- Put events in order when you write
Revising3 skills
- Read your writing back and add a missing word
- Add a detail to make your writing clearer
- Fix a capital letter or an ending mark
Speaking and inquiry3 skills
- Ask a question you want to find out about
- Share what you learned with the class
- Listen and respond to what someone said
Explore: science8 units · 36 skills
Investigating4 skills
- Ask a question that can be answered by looking
- Use a tool to observe more closely
- Record what you saw in a simple chart
- Tell someone what you found out
Properties of objects5 skills
- Compare two objects by weight
- Compare two objects by length
- Classify a material as solid or liquid
- Predict whether a material will change when warmed
- Sort materials by whether they bend
Motion and energy4 skills
- Draw the path a rolling object takes
- Change the direction of a moving object
- Tell what makes a sound louder
- Show how a shadow is made
Earth materials and weather3 skills
- Sort rocks by color, size and feel
- Chart the weather across a week
- Match each season to its weather
Plants and animals5 skills
- Match an animal part to what it does
- Match a plant part to what it does
- Sequence the stages of a plant growing from a seed
- Tell where an animal lives and why
- Tell how an animal gets its food
The sun, the moon, and the stars5 skills
- Tell what the Sun is
- Put the shapes of the Moon in order
- Tell what a star is
- Tap the planet you live on
- Tell what an astronaut does
Land and water on Earth5 skills
- Find the seven continents on a globe
- Tap an ocean on a map
- Tell one difference between a lake and an ocean
- Choose the picture that shows a mountain
- Tell what a river does
Kinds of animals5 skills
- Sort animals that are mammals from animals that are not
- Tell what makes an animal a reptile
- Choose the animals that are amphibians
- Count the three parts of an insect's body
- Tell why a spider is not an insect
Explore: history5 units · 24 skills
Change over time4 skills
- Compare how people traveled long ago and today
- Match a way people sent messages long ago to one used today
- Place events on a simple timeline
- Tell how your school has changed
American heroes5 skills
- Tell one thing Benjamin Franklin gave us
- Tell one thing Martin Luther King Jr. changed
- Put Harriet Tubman's journey in order
- Choose what Amelia Earhart flew
- Tell why a community builds a statue
Patriotic traditions5 skills
- Count the stars and stripes on the American flag
- Tell what the Pledge of Allegiance means
- Tell why we have Memorial Day
- Match Flag Day to what it honors
- Tell what the Statue of Liberty stands for
Learning from sources5 skills
- Use an old photograph as evidence
- Use an object to tell about the past
- Tell who Rosa Parks was
- Put Neil Armstrong's trip to the Moon in order
- Sort a story from a fact
Coming to America5 skills
- Tell who Christopher Columbus was
- Choose who lived in America first
- Tell why people sailed across an ocean
- Tap a colony on an old map
- Tell what Ellis Island was
FAQ
- What happens when my child is stuck in a lesson?
- Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every lesson with one large microphone button. Your child taps it, asks about the word or sum that stopped them, and hears the answer spoken back, so a new reader never has to type a question.
- How much time does school take each day?
- There is no fixed daily length. Each subject runs as a short spoken lesson, with a play break whenever your child needs one and an adult nearby, and our Parent Dashboard adds up the day.
- What should a 1st grader be able to read by the end of the year?
- An unfamiliar short-vowel word, a simple book read aloud at a steady pace, and a retelling of what happened in it. Our 1st grade reading lessons work toward exactly those, and the Parent Dashboard shows which ones your child has.
- What if my 1st grader is behind?
- Placement finds the weak skill, whether it is reading a new word, adding within 20, or writing a sentence someone else can read, and starts there. Your child repairs that one skill instead of repeating the year.
Build 1st grade around your child
Start with the 1st grade skills your child needs next, with room to move ahead in one subject and review in another.
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