First Grade Curriculum

* Please note that the Language Arts and Math curriculum is not in a particular order, because the standards are integrated throughout the year.

Language Arts - McGraw-Hill Reading

• Decoding and encoding skills
• Sentence structure and punctuation
• Parts of speech
• Synonyms, antonyms, root words, prefixes, suffixes, contractions and plurals
• Alphabetical order
• Dictionary skills
• Sight word reading, fluency and comprehension
• Following written and oral directions
• Spelling
• Story/journal writing

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Religion - Faith First

Quarter 1

-God's love for us

-The Trinity

-Mary is the mother of God

-Jesus gave us the Church

Quarter 2

-The church celebrates all year

-We celebrate mass

-The four weeks of Advent

-The Season of Christmas

-Sacraments

Quarter 3

-Ash Wednesday

-The season of Lent

-We live as children of God, as a family, and as a community

-The 10 Commandments

-We love through forgiveness

Quarter 4

-Holy Week

-The Easter Season

-Jesus teaches his followers to pray

-We pray in many ways

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Social Studies - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Quarter 1:

-Families and their functions

-Differences among various cultures

-Comparing and contrasting communities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada  

-States full name, address, and phone number

-Passage of time using a clock,calendar and timeline

Quarter 2:

-Thanksgiving: Colonists, pioneers and native Americans

-U.S. historical figures

-Recognizing differences in colonial days from today

-Good Citizenship

-National Leaders

- Identifies familiar symbols of our country

Quarter 3:

-Transportation: goods and services, different modes, land, air and water

- Landforms and bodies of water

-Locating oceans and continents on a map

-Obtaining information from maps and globes

Quarter 4:

-Goods and Services

-Distinguishing between basic needs and wants

-Differences between produces and service workers

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Science - Harcourt

Quarter 1:

-Scientific Inquiry: Scientific method, compare data and draw conclussions, assemble graphs and interpret data

-Life Science: Identify the basic needs of animals and compare and describe characteristics of animals

Quarter 2:

-Life Science: Identify the basic needs of plants and identify the parts of plants

-Environmental Science: Demonstrates respect for God's creation, identify ways to conserve energy and resources, and identify types of pollution

                                                     

Quarter 3:

-Earth Science: Identify different types of weather, relate weather to seasonal changes, and evaporation

Quarter 4:

-Physical Science: Demonstrate an understanding of light, sources of light, shadows.

Demonstrate an understanding of sound, waves, vibrations, emergency sounds, pitch and volume

Understands the effects of magnets: attract and repel

Math - Everday Math

• number lines
• number writing practice
• more and less
• comparing numbers
• tally marks
• calendar usage
• analyzing weather data
• number lines and grids
• clocks and telling time
• money
• problem solving
• addition and subtraction
• visual patterns
• even and odd numbers
• number grid patterns
• shapes and patterns
• addition and subtraction on a number line
• time to the half hour and quarter hour
• counting with a calculator
• money - counting dimes, nickels and pennies
• analyzing data
• domino addition
• thermometer
• measurement
• two dimensional shapes
• base ten blocks
• time lines

• Addition Facts
• Equivalent Names
• Centimeter
• Quarters
• Digital Notation for Times
• Gathering Data
• Two-Dimensional Shapes
• Three-Dimensional Shapes
• Symmetry

• Counting Money and Exchanges
• Place Value to Hundreds
• Making Change
• Fraction Concepts
• Base 10
• Number Puzzle Grids
• Basic Fraction Concepts

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