First Grade
- Standard Form of Numbers, Word Form of Numbers, and Ordinals
- Addition and subtraction strategies to 20
- Addition and subtraction facts to 20
- Place value to 100
- Creating different types of graphs and analyzing data
- Addition of two-digit numbers with and without regrouping
- Subtraction of two-digit numbers with and without regrouping
- Geometry of plane and solid figures
- Money: identifying and counting coins
- Telling time to the nearest hour and half hour
- Elapsed time and calendar
- Recognize, compare, and order fractions
- Measurement
- Fractions: ½, ⅓, ¼, and part of a set
- Probability
Small-group reading instruction
- Phonological awareness
- Phonics and decoding
- High-frequency words
- Guided spelling
- Word analysis
Reading Strategies
- Word recognition and analysis
- Fluency
- Comprehension
- Self-monitoring and self-correcting
- Generating independent thinking
- Using schema/making connections
- Visualizing
- Retelling
- Wondering/Questioning
- Using text features
Grammar
- Types of sentences
- Types of nouns
- Verbs
- Verb tenses
- Prepositions
- Types of pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Capital letters
- How to use commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks
Writing Genres
- Narrative
- Expository
- Opinion
- Poetry
Writing Process and Craft
- Generate ideas for writing
- Choosing writing topics
- Extend writing to tell more
- Reread writing for sense
- Read and share published pieces with the class
- Analyze writing for specific purposes and revise
- Proofreading and editing
- Confer in pairs/ Give and receive feedback
- Write for sustained periods of time
- The rights and responsibilities of citizenship
- Geography of the community
- Symbols, icons, and traditions of the United States
- Life today and long ago
- Ways of living and exploring different cultures
- Economics: goods and services
- Greetings, common phrases
- Colors, numbers, shapes, sizes
- Alphabet, subject pronouns
- Body parts, clothing
- Feelings, favorite things
- Calendar, four seasons, weather changes
- Animals (domestic, farm, exotic)
- Food, fruits, vegetables
- Family members
- Community helpers
- Objects in the home and at school
- Motor skills and movement patterns
- Hopping and galloping
- Twisting and bending
- Kicking and throwing
- Fitness knowledge
- Sportsmanship
- Scientific method
- Sound
- Light
- Sky and earth
- Weather and seasons
- Living things
- Parents and offspring
- Coding as language: cause and effect, conditional commands
- Unplugged coding and programming: directional commands
- Reverse/Back engineering
- Design and build an arcade game Laws of Motion: Galileo’s gravity experiment and air resistance
- Continue learning about different art materials and tools and how to use them safely - Identifying everyday objects in their artwork
- Begin using art vocabulary to describe their art and the art of others
- Incorporate their likes and experiences into their artwork
- Complete projects that include the elements of art (line, shape, color, form, texture, value, space)
- Experiencing art from different cultures and time periods discussing why art is made and by who
Projects and Topics:
- Secondary colors
- Still life
- Art from Indigenous cultures
- Batiks
- Folk art
- Steady beat
- Echo clapping
- Singing/solfege/mallets
- Circle games and folk cancing
- Fast and Slow/Loud and Soft/High and Low
- Drum circle
- We feature a wide variety of books
- We go once a week for a read aloud and to check out books
- We encourage questions and model reading strategies
- We have character-based discussions
- We have a large selection of books including fiction, nonfiction, and reference materials There are many Newbery and Caldecott winners in our holdings
- The librarian is able to refer our students to many diverse books to students
- There is a different display each month of theme-based artifacts
- Create characters, stories, and design elements
- Perform in one drama production a year
- Demonstrate the use of body and voice to communicate
- Examine performance skills
- Critically respond, offering comments and observations
- Informed by our Episcopal identity
- Once a week gathering with kindergarten through fifth-grade students
- Once a week gathering with all grades
- Time to reflect, pray, learn, and acknowledge events in the lives of students
- Celebrate birthdays and communal events
- Led by school chaplain with the assistance of the student chaplains
- Guest speakers are welcomed to discuss different aspects of faith
- Families and friends are welcome