Grade 1 age 6–7

What your child practises here in Grade 1, with a real lesson and question from each subject.

Grade 1 math here is adding and taking away to 20, and tens and ones. Not here yet: money, the calendar, measuring, among others. When your child has learned these, the level moves up. Use it alongside what the school sends home. See the detail

  • A short lesson first
  • Worksheets of 20 to 25 questions, in rounds of 5 or 6
  • Learned means 3 in 4 right, on two different days

Math

Adding and taking away up to 20, tens and ones, simple word problems.

From the lesson · Adding within 20

8 + 6 = ?

56789101112131415+2+4
  1. 8 needs 2 more to reach 10, so split the 6 into 2 and 4.
  2. Add the 2 first: 8 + 2 = 10.
  3. Now add what is left of the 6: 10 + 4.

8 + 6 = 14

Then questions like this one

9 + 6 = ?

9+6=?A14B15C16D13

What Grade 1 math practises here

  • Adding within 10single-digit addition with sums up to 10
  • Subtracting within 10single-digit subtraction within 10, including take-away and difference
  • Adding within 20addition with sums between 11 and 20, including making ten
  • Subtracting within 20subtraction from numbers up to 20, including bridging ten
  • Tens & onesplace value to 100: how many tens and ones make a two-digit number
  • Simple word problemsone-step add or subtract word problems within 20

Not here yet

Money, the calendar, measuring, 3D shapes, first fractions.

Most schools teach these this year too. Until they are here, use what your school sends home for them.

Try 5 Grade 1 math questions

English

Sight words, letter pairs like sh and ch, first sentences.

From the lesson · Sight words

Find the tricky part of the word 'do'.

  1. Find the job: which part is not its usual sound?
  2. The d is usual. It sounds just like the start of dog.
  3. The o sounds like the middle of moon. Learn that part.

Answer: the o is the tricky part

Then questions like this one

Which word completes the sentence? 'The cat ___ asleep on my bed.'

AwasBsawCasDwax

What Grade 1 English practises here

  • Sight wordscommon high-frequency words recognised on sight: the, said, was, they
  • Letter pairssounds made by pairs such as sh, ch, th, ck
  • Simple sentencescompleting and ordering short sentences that make sense
  • Capitals & full stopssentences start with a capital letter and end with a full stop, and names and the word I always take a capital
  • Understanding a sentenceanswering a simple question about one short sentence
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AI literacy

Sensors, if-then rules, and learning from examples.

From the lesson · If-then rules

Rule: IF the dog is at the door, THEN open the door. The dog is asleep in the garden. Do you open the door?

  1. Check the IF part: is the dog at the door?
  2. No — the dog is asleep in the garden.
  3. The IF part is not true, so the rule does not tell you to open the door.

Answer: no

Then questions like this one

Rule: IF the light is red, THEN the robot stops. The light is red. What does the robot do?

Ait goesBit turnsCit beepsDit stops

What Grade 1 AI literacy practises here

  • Senses & sensorsmatching human senses to machine sensors (camera and eyes, microphone and ears, touch screen and touch, thermometer and feeling hot) and what each one can notice
  • If-then rulesfollowing and choosing simple if-then rules (if it is raining, then take an umbrella; if the light is red, then the robot stops)
  • Describing with featuresdescribing things by their features (has wings, has wheels, is round, can swim) and using one feature to sort them
  • Learning from exampleshow people and computers learn what something is by seeing many examples of it, and why lots of different examples help more than many of the same one
  • People make machinespeople design, build and program machines and AI; AI is a tool, not alive, and people decide what it is for
Try 5 Grade 1 AI literacy questions

Not sure Grade 1 is right?

Each grade here practises the main topic most schools teach that year. It is not everything your child's school covers. Grades are a guide, not any province's program, so a short warm-up checks your child's level first, in each subject: a child can be in one grade for English and another for math. The level moves up as they learn.

Kindergartenage 5–6Math Counting to 20, reading numbers, more and fewer, basic shapes.English Letter sounds, blending sounds into words, rhymes.AI Living things and machines, following steps, spotting patterns.Grade 2age 7–8Math Two-digit adding and subtracting, skip counting, first steps in multiplying.English Nouns, verbs and adjectives, and short reading.AI What data is, why AI guesses, and keeping information private.

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