FIRST GRADE


​Language Arts

Phonics and Reading​
  • Review of vowels, consonants, blends
  • One- and two- vowel words, consonant blends
  • Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
  • Spelling rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent e, changing y to i
  • Oral reading
  • Developing listening skills

Cursive Writing
  • Review of letter formation
  • Daily seatwork practice
  • Creative writing
Spelling and Poetry
  • Weekly phonics-based word lists
  • Weekly test with phonics
  • Reinforcement activities
  • Eight poems committed to memory

Language
  • Capitalization of first word in sentence, proper names
  • Days of week, and months of the year
  • Correct punctuation at the ends of sentences
  • Recognition & writing of sentences
  • Words using suffixes, prefixes, syllables, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, same meaning words and contractions
  • Alphabetizing of words
  • Writing complete sentences and short stories


History and geography

This is My America                                                   
  • My America’s Flag
  • My America’s Freedoms
  • Symbols of My America
  • Great People of America
  • My America Grows
  • My America Talks
  • My America Travels
  • My America is Beautiful
  • My America Sings
This is My World
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Virgin Islands
  • Puerto Rico
  • Bahamas
  • England 
  • The Netherlands 
  • Norway 
  • France 
  • Germany

  • Switzerland
  • Italy
  • Israel 
  • Egypt 
  • Kenya
  • India 
  • China 
  • Australia
  • Guam
  • American Samoa


Science

Plants
  • Discovering Plants
Seasons
  • Discovering Seasons

Health and Human Body
  • Discovering Myself
Energy
  • Discovering My Toys

Animals
  • Discovering Animals
  • Discovering Insects


Arithmetic

  • Number recognition, counting and writing 1-1000
  • Greatest and least
  • Counting and writing by tens, fives, twos, and threes
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Number sequences, odd & even
  • Numbers before and after, between numbers
  • Counting and combining coins
  • Telling time to the nearest five minutes
  • English and some metric measures
  • Place value in ones, tens and hundreds
  • Reading a thermometer and using a ruler
  • Addition facts through 13 and three-digit addition with carrying
  • Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
  • Concept of multiplication
  • Calendars
  • Story problems
  • Reading pictographs and bar graphs
  • Unit fractions 
  • Multiple combinations and concepts
  • Roman numerals
  • Developing listening skills
  • Recognizing odd and even numbers


Health, Safety, Manners

Health
  • Eating good foods
  • Rest
  • Care of body, clothes, home
  • Exercising
  • Posture
Safety
  • At home and away from home
  • On streets, playgrounds, water

Manners
  • At home, school, church and in public


Bible

Enjoying God’s Gifts
Through the study of creation and the lives of Bible Memory verses characters, First Graders will see that all we have comes from God. The ultimate gift God gave us is His Son, Jesus Christ. Stories from everyday life are used to encourage the development of inner character traits.


TECHNOLOGY

All students will have the advantage of learning, using computers not only in the classroom but also in our state of the art Computer Lab. Students will become familiar with the basic components of the computer. Computers will be used with age and grade appropriate software. All software will correlate with the school’s curriculum to enhance the child’s learning. They play typing, spelling games, sight word bingo, counting, graphing, addition, subtraction, money games, creating Word Search puzzles utilizing sight words.


​Spanish

  • Numbers 1-10
  • Shapes
  • Days of the week
  • Months of the Year
  • Family Members
  • Animals 
  • Fruits
  • Food 
  • Introduction to Action Verbs

Art

​Music​

Physical Education​