1st Grade • Mrs. Hill
1st Grade • Mrs. Hill
Welcome to 1st Grade with Mrs. Hill! Please scroll down below the "Websites We Love!" section to find relevant information from Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction regarding 1st Grade.
A Day in the Life
- Morning Work
- Morning meeting
- Language Arts
- Writing
- Recess (9:05 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.)
- Science
- Scholastic News
- Lunch (10:45 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.)
- Recess (11:05 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.)
- DLR (Daily Language Review - grammar and mechanics!)
- Special (Monday: Physical Education, Tuesday: Art, Wednesday: Music, Library, Thursday: Physical Education, Friday: Physical Education)
- Mathematics
- Read to Self
- Recess (1:05 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.)
- Snack
- Phonics
- Dismissal
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FIRST GRADE ADMISSION
At what age may a child enter first grade?
- State law, Wis. Stat. Sec. 118.14(1)(c), states no child may be admitted to the first grade unless he or she is 6 years old, on or before September 1 of the year he or she proposes to enter school. However, school board policy may permit exceptions. Under Wis. Stat. Sec. 120.12(25) school boards must prescribe procedures, conditions and standards for early admission to first grade.
- Does the new law require students to complete kindergarten before they may enroll in first grade? Yes. With certain exceptions, this new law requires a child to complete 5-year-old kindergarten as a prerequisite to being admitted to first grade in a public school.
- What is the district or independent charter school responsibility when a parent wants to enroll a child in first grade who has not completed 5K? Each school board and independent charter school that operates a 5-year-old kindergarten must establish procedures, conditions and standards for exempting a child from the requirement that the child complete kindergarten as a prerequisite to enrollment in the first grade and for reviewing a denial of an exemption upon the request of the pupil's parent or guardian. These local policies may include exemptions in addition to the mandatory exemptions related to a move discussed below. Additionally, each school board and independent charter school that operates a 5-year-old kindergarten must adopt a written policy specifying the criteria for promoting a pupil from 5K to the first grade. Further, if a child is age eligible to enroll in first grade, has not completed kindergarten and has moved from another state, country or territory where completion of kindergarten is not a prerequisite to enrolling in first grade or has received an exemption from the requirement to complete kindergarten in the state, country or territory from which he/she moved, the school board or independent charter school must enroll the child in first grade.
- What happens when a parent has chosen to keep his/her child home from 5-year-old kindergarten and wants to enroll the child in a public school for first grade in the following school year? At the time the parent wishes to enroll the child in first grade, the parent would need to submit a request to the school district for an exemption from the requirement that the child complete a kindergarten program prior to entering first grade. Act 41 requires each school board to establish procedures, conditions, and standards for exempting a child from the requirement that the child complete kindergarten as a prerequisite to enrollment in the first grade.
- What is the final appeal authority for exemptions and exceptions? Local school boards are required to establish procedures, conditions, and standards for exempting a child from completing kindergarten as a prerequisite to enrollment in the first grade and for reviewing the denial of an exemption upon the request of the pupil's parent or guardian. (Wis. Stat. Sec. 118.33(6)1)
If you have any questions or needs, please reach out to me directly via email at:
hill@drought.school