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First Grade Curriculum
The Curriculum, as outlined below, represents the goals we have established for our students. It is our expectation that all students will work towards achieving these goals to the best of his/her ability. We offer a student centered learning environment designed to meet individual needs while developing a cooperative community spirit. To enhance their creative frontiers... this is our goal!
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Reading/Language Arts
- Vocabulary
- Recognize long and short vowel sounds.
- Identify consonant blends.
- Introduce synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms.
- Identify plural forms, compound words,, and contractions.
- Comprehension
- Identify main ideas and details.
- Recall and sequence events.
- Recognize cause and effect relationships.
- Predict outcomes and draw conclusions.
- Read for a purpose.
- Follow written directions.
- Literature
- Listen to and read folk tales, nursery rhymes, make believe stories, fables, and non-fictional material.
- Introduce story plot development.
- Make creative responses to literature through the fine arts.
- Gain a sense of common values and goals central to our culture and other cultures through an interaction with literature.
- Draw on past and present experiences in order to bring meaning to the literature.
- Language Arts Written
- Copy a sentence of 3 or more words.
- Write first and last name with correct capitalization.
- Write a sentence with a question.
- Write several related sentences.
- Use capital letters, periods, and question marks.
- Copy and invitation and thank you letter.
Creative writing activities.
- Apply spelling skills in writing.
- Experience process writing skills (pre-writing, drafting, beginning editing)
- Language Arts Oral
- Describe an object using 2 properties.
- Use "I" and "me" correctly.
- Speak in complete sentences.
- Respond verbally to points in a discussion.
- Tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
- Develop listening and oral communication skills through a variety of speaking and listening activities including chants, songs, poetry, and drama.
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Mathematics
- Numbers and numeration
- Understands joining of sets
- Understands terms of comparison (as many as, more than, greater than, less than, etc).
- Skip counts by 2's, 5's, and 10's.
- Applies understanding of place value: ones, tens, and hundreds.
- Addition of whole numbers
- Add for facts to 18
- Double digit adding without regrouping
- Applies understanding of addition to word problems.
- Subtraction of whole numbers
- Subtraction for facts to 18
- Applies understanding of subtraction to word problems.
- Double digit subtraction without regrouping
- Fractions
- Measurement
- Geometry - recognizes basic shapes as well as flat and solid shapes.
- Recognizes money, including: penny, dime, nickel, quarter, one dollar, and different coin combinations.
- Makes, reads, and compares bar graphs, and interprets information for problem solving.
- Understands the concept of time (to the quarter hour) and function of a clock.
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Social Studies
- World History and Geography
- The Ice Age
- Egypt
- Religions: What Different People Believe
- American History and Geography
- Ancient People (Maya, Aztecs, Inca)
- The Arrival of Europeans
- Colonial America
- Fight for Independence
- Important People of the Revolution
- Growing America
- Communities and helpers
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Science
- Living Things and Their Habitats
- Oceans and Undersea Life
- The Human Body
- Matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas
- Measurement: How long, How much, How hot
- Electricity
- Astronomy: Our Solar System
- Down to Earth
- Rocks
- Important Scientists
- Edward Jenner
- Louis Pastuer
- Thomas Edison
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Fine Art
- Visual Art
- A World Of Color
- Lines, Shapes, and Textures
- Portraits
- Murals
- Learning about various artists, their history, and their works.
- Analyzing art work.
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Music
- Learn about instruments and their families.
- Great Composers
- Music can tell a story - Opera
- Jazz
- Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm
- Reading and Writing Music
- Sing a few favorite songs
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Computers
- Typing skills
- Begin word processing
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Physical Education
- Following game rules and development of team effort
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Library
- Extension on exposure to new material, learning how to choose books appropriate for their reading level.
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