We are very excited to have your child in first grade this year at Whitt! Our goal is to create an engaging and exciting year of learning for your child. We believe that by providing a structured, supportive, and student-centered learning environment, your child will succeed and become independent thinkers and problem solvers. Parents are the most important influence in the education of our students. Together, we can ensure your child is successful and ready for second grade and beyond.

Here are a few skills first graders will learn this school year:

• Identify, compare, and describe characters in a story
• Make connections to stories
• Retell the important parts of a story
• Determine the reader’s and author’s purpose of a story
• Summarize a story
• Write poems, short research papers, friendly letters, and narratives
• Tell time to the half-hour
• Solve word problems
• Work with fractions
• Identify and count coins
• Add and subtract to 20
• Skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100