First Grade · emergent reading, first math, a classroom close to families
First Grade in California
California public schools are overseen by the California Department of Education. This is the First Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Sacramento to the smallest district in between.
Schools across California
State capital
Sacramento
Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.
Serving schools in
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, and Sacramento
and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.
What First Grade looks like here
The emergent-reader year; a child moving from recognizing letters to decoding words and from counting to adding, in a warm, family-connected classroom.
First grade still lives in the class keepsake more than the gradebook; a proud emergent-reader's page passes the teacher-approval gate, honest content-safety scan advising the teacher, never auto-published.
From kindergarten readiness into the first real academics; the child now reads and the parent reads with them at home.
Standards
The academic standards First Grade follows in California
California adopts its own academic standards; the California Department of Education is the authority that sets what a public school teaches. Below are the real, currently listed California standards documents for Grades K-2, by subject, with a link to each one so you can read it at the source. We write our own free First Grade materials to align with them; we are not the California Department of Education, and we are not endorsed, approved by, or affiliated with it.
English Language Arts
California Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts and Literacy (2010)
L.1.1— Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.L.1.1a— Print all upper- and lowercase letters.L.1.1b— Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
337 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Mathematics
California Common Core State Standards: Mathematics (2010)
1.G.A— Reason with shapes and their attributes.1.MD.1— Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.1.MD.3— Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
130 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Science
Next Generation Science Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (2013)
1-ESS1-1— Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.1-ESS1-2— Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.1-LS1— From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
56 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Standard codes and text are drawn from the Common Standards Project / Achievement Standards Network (ASN) corpus, republished by D2L Corporation (CC BY (per-document; see each cell.document.license)). 3rd-party aggregator copy, NOT an authoritative state publication. Verify against each document's own source before treating as authoritative. We do not present this as an authoritative crosswalk; each state agency’s own publication, linked above, is the authority.
Honest by default
The school stays the FERPA custodian of student records; a rep-scoped view reads zero grade rows at the database engine. Money, pricing, and checkout are honest-off on this page, and any school count above is an NCES Common Core of Data reference figure, never a claim of adoption in California.
Where these numbers come from
Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.
More on First Grade
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The full First Grade view of the platform — the capabilities that lead at this grade, each marked honestly as shipped or early access.
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homeroom.software
The flagship platform home, with the full product story behind every module and every grade.