First grade is a very exciting year! Children begin to go to school for a
full day for the first time. This is the year your child will learn to
read!!!! Below is an outline of the first grade curriculum.
READING:
Students will......
* recognize upper and lower case letters
* identify consonant sounds (beginning, middle, end)
* recognize and use vowel sounds (long/short) and apply rules
* use appropriate decoding skills including blends (e.g. br, st) and
digraphs (e.g. sh, th)
* use sight word families for word use and spelling (e.g. mat, cat, hat)
* develop sight vocabulary- words seen often in print (e.g. and, the,
because)
* use pictures, phonetic and contextual clues to develop meaning
* read with meaning
* develop listening skills
* make comparisons and contrasts
WRITING AND LANGUAGE ARTS:
Students will.........
* create a story with a beginning, middle and end
* begin to use writing conventions (capitalization/punctuation/grammar)
* create illustrations to correspond with written words
* write in complete sentences
* have exposure to different types of literature (e.g. poetry, novels, short
stories)
PENMANSHIP:
Students will.........
*form and use upper and lower case manuscript letters appropriately (e.g.
raBBit should be rabbit)
* spacing
MATH:
Students will.........
* recognize and write numbers to 100
* add and subtract facts to 18
* construct appropriate equations to solve simple written math problems
* work using rote counting, money,measurement, geometry, graphing and
estimation
* tell time in hour and half hour intervals
* begin to understand place value
* calendar
* counting by 2's, 5's and 10's
* patterns
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Students will.............
* understand the makeup of a family unit and how his/her family is part of a
community
* understand the importance of safety as it relates to home and school
* holidays
* rules, responsibilities, laws
SCIENCE:
Students will.............
* properties (characteristics for materials such as its shape, size and
color)
* organizing ourselves to do science investigations
* investigation of properties of objects
* states of matter
* plants and animals (snails)
COMPUTER:
Students will...........
*log on and off
* become aware of the keyboard
* use software to reinforce math, reading and writing
OTHER AREAS COVERED:
* fire prevention
* nutrition
* dental health
* seasons
* drug prevention
* AIDS
* sexual abuse
