FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Bible
- Old and New Testament themes: God’s covenant with Abraham’s Family; Jesus, God’s Son
- Weekly Scripture memory
- Integration of Biblical worldview in all subjects
Language Arts
- Phonemic awareness: Consonant and vowel sounds, digraphs, blends, and rhyme patterns
- Reading fluency, including 250 sight words
- Orton-Gillingham phonics instruction and spelling of phonetic and non-phonetic words:
- Reading comprehension: Identify main idea, cause and effect, sequence; make predictions
- Vocabulary: Homophones, synonyms, antonyms; learn new vocabulary in context
- Listening and speaking: Listen to a variety of genres; present information orally
- Spelling: Phonetic and non-phonetic words
- Writing and grammar: Rules for capitalization and punctuation; basic parts of speech; journals, poetry, and short narrative and expository writings
Library Skills
- Story elements and appreciation of literature
- Locating and organizing information
Math
- Numbers and operations: Numeration, ordinal numbers; addition and subtraction, including mastery of addition facts to 20; place value, simple fractions
- Measurement: Time, money, customary measurement
- Graphs and data interpretation
- Geometry: Plane and solid figures; sides and corners
- Estimation, including benchmarks and rounding
- Algebraic reasoning: patterns, concept of equality; commutative property of addition
- Problem solving strategies
Social Studies
- Civics: Communities; rules and laws
- Economics: Producers and consumers
- Geography: Map skills
- History: National symbols; Pledge of Allegiance; Culture & holidays, Historic figures
Science: One science lab class per week
- Life science: Plant growth and function, animal kingdoms and survival, health and nutrition
- Earth science: Earth’s resources, weather changes, seasons
- Physical science: Magnets, sound, properties of gas, liquid, solid
Technology: One class per week
- Website navigation, computer graphics, introduction to coding and keyboarding
Physical Education: Two classes per week
- Personal fitness, group games, rules and techniques, sportsmanship
Music: Two classes per week
- Vocal music, listening, rhythm and movement, music appreciation
Art: One class per week
- Elements of visual art, media techniques, critical response
Foreign Language: One class per week
- Survey of conversational Spanish and Spanish culture