Curriculum Overview

First Grade

Language Arts

• Demonstrate comprehension skills by identifying the main idea of a story, providing details, and retelling the events of a story
• Distinguish and apply the following letter-sound relationships:
• Initial, medial, and final consonant sounds, including “x” and “qu”
• Consonant digraphs (ch, th, sh, ck, wh)
• Inflectional endings (-s, -es, -ed, -ing)
• Distinguish long and short vowel patterns
• Use a variety of strategies to decode text and make meaning
• Recognize a sight word vocabulary based on 80% of the Dolch list (high frequency words)
• Identify title, author, illustrator, title page, page number, and table of contents
• Build vocabulary comprehension through formal and informal study
• Alphabetize to the first letter
• Write upper and lower case letters of the alphabet using correct letter formation
• Write a complete sentence using a combination of invented and conventional spelling
• Write a simple story with a beginning, middle, and end
• Identify sentence units in print:
• Beginning capitalization
• Nouns
• Verbs
• End punctuation
• Share writing with appropriate audiences
• Demonstrate reading, speaking, and writing ability through a variety of forms or experiences
• Respond to an audiovisual presentation when given a specific purpose
• Respond to various selections from a chosen children's author, fiction and nonfiction books, and a variety of multicultural literature.

Math

• Extend and complete patterns, including whole numbers or attributes
• Demonstrate an ability to estimate
• Demonstrate an understanding of place value and magnitude
• Demonstrate an understanding of fractions (1/2 and whole)
• Solve addition and subtraction problems
• Demonstrate a knowledge of creating and combining equal groups
• Create, interpret and describe graphs, tables, and charts
• Solve problems involving time, elapsed time, and calendar
• Demonstrate an understanding of money
• Demonstrate an understanding of the attributes of length, capacity, weight, mass, area, volume, and temperature
• Identify and draw geometric shapes and figures, including angles and sides of polygons
• Solve problems involving elementary notions of probability and chance

Science
Units of study include:

• Seed and plant growth
• Soil science
• Properties of matter
• The moon

Social Studies
Units of study include:

• The Earth you live on
• School
• Holidays around the world
• Map and globe skills
• Rules and responsibilities for working together and respecting one another
• Families
• Neighborhoods
• Graph and chart reading

Health
Units of study include:

• Community and environmental health
• Disease prevention
• Mental, emotional, and social health
• Substance abuse prevention
• First aid, safety, and accident prevention