Free printable · 1st grade
1st grade homeschool, on one page
What to teach this year, how often, and for how long. About an hour and 45 minutes a day, four days a week, with Friday kept light.
Arbor turns this page into your child’s whole year, every lesson written out for you to teach, at their level. Free for 14 days.
The subjects
| Subject | Days a week | Minutes | What 1st grade covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 4 | 20 | Numbers to 120, adding and subtracting within 20, tens and ones, measuring, shapes, telling time |
| Reading | 4 | 20 | Endings like -ed and -ing, silent e, vowel teams, two-syllable words, contractions, a chapter story |
| Handwriting | 4 | 20 | Every lowercase and capital letter, size and spacing, and writing whole sentences |
| Science | 2 | 30 | Sound and light, plant and animal parts, parents and their young, the Sun, Moon, and stars |
| History | 2 | 20 | Maps and directions, the first Americans, the Pilgrims, George Washington, ancient Egypt, knights and castles |
| Read aloud | Every day | 15–20 | A chapter book you both love, a little every day |
History can be Geography instead: maps and globes, land and water, continents and oceans, and homes around the world.
A sample week
Mon
- Math
- Reading
- Handwriting
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Tue
- Math
- Reading
- Handwriting
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Wed
- Math
- Reading
- Handwriting
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Thu
- Math
- Reading
- Handwriting
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Fri
- Read aloud
- Catch up, a field trip, or co-op
About 20 minutes
Move any of it to suit your family. The days and minutes are the pace of Arbor’s own 1st grade curriculum.
Want every day of this planned for you?
Arbor turns this into your child’s whole year: each lesson written out for you to teach, at their level, with the records kept as you go. Free for 14 days.