Overview & Highlights
First Grade
Monday - Friday
8:30 am - 3:15 PM
Curriculum Highlights
Religion:
Weekly Bible verses to memorize
Weekly chapel services
Daily Prayer
Growing in God’s Word through studies of Old and new Testament
Reading:
Our lessons are divided into 4 segments each day.
Working with words: (Phonemic Awareness)
Making Words Activities
Word Patterns
Word Segments
Classroom Word Wall
Short & Long Vowel Recognition
Consonant Blends Recognition
Vowel Blends Recognition
Guided Reading: (Phonics & Comprehension Skills)
Thematic Stories
Story Elements
Compare and Contrast
Main Idea
Cause and Effect
Summarizing
Fantasy and Reality
Self-Selected Reading:
Daily silent reading
Identifying individual book levels
Accelerated Reader program
Utilizing school library and public library as resources
Spelling:
Weekly lists coincide with Reading Program
Words with Spelling Patterns
High-Frequency Words
Words with Irregular Spellings
Writing:
Using complete sentences
Implementing steps of the writing process for paragraph writing
Incorporating themes from Guided Reading as writing topics
Current spelling words and word wall words are incorporated into writing assignments
Identify purposes for writing
Language Arts:
Identifying parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns)
Capitalization and Punctuation
Grammar lessons are based on stories from reading program
Science:
Living things vs. Non-living things
Magnets
Weather and Seasons
Earth, Land, and Water
Thematic units and Hands-on Experiments
Basic Health Concepts
Math:
Comparing & Ordering Numbers to 100
Addition & Subtraction facts through 18
Adding & Subtracting 2-digit numbers
Word Problems
Place Value
Time
Money
Fractions
Geometry
Calendar
Measurement
Data and Graphs
Social Studies:
Map Skills
Communities
Americans Long Ago
The World Around Us
Specials:
Music & Choir
Computer
Gym
Art
Library