1st Grade
Welcome to First Grade
Reading
Our reading program is Reading Streets by Scott Foresman. This program is designed to differentiate instruction based on your child's needs. Differentiated instruction is a varied response to learners' needs, generally, based upon various assessments, cooperative learning groups, attention to readiness levels and learning styles of children. Instructional and management strategies include components of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner. Implementation may also include specific rubrics offering choices with regard to various learning styles and readiness levels.
We will assess where the students are at the start of first grade and they will be placed into groups based on their needs. We will work in small groups for phonics and reading work using activities to meet their needs and abilities.
Some important points about the reading program:
- These are flexible groups. Students will be moved from group to group depending on how their learning progresses. We will constantly be reassessing to make sure students are in the group that will best facilitate their learning.
- Students might be in different groups for phonics and reading.
- No matter which group students are in they will be learning the same concepts. The activities will be different depending on the needs of the student.
- This program is divided into 5 units, each 6 weeks long. When we come to the end of the unit there will be a unit test.
Math
In first grade, your child will build on last year's work and gain important new skills. One of the most important outcomes for the year is to improve speed and accuracy adding with a sum of 20 or less and subtracting from a number 20 or less. Working with multi-digit numbers and adding and subtracting with larger numbers is also a main focus.
A sample of what your child will be working oi in 1st grade
- Solving addition and subtraction work problems.
- Adding with a sum of 20 or less and subtracting from a number 20 or less
- Quickly and accurately adding with a sum of 10 or less and subtracting from a number 10 or less
- Understanding what the digits mean in two digit numbers
- Using understanding of place value to add and subtract
- Measuring lengths of objects by using a shorter object as a unit of length
- making composite shapes by joining shapes together, and dividing circles and rectangles into halves or fourths.
1st Grade Curriculum
Religion
- God gives us the world
- God gives us Jesus
- Jesus gives us the church
- Parts of the mass
- Ways to pray
- Prayers
- Saints
- Praying the Rosary
- Stations of the Cross
- Seasons of the Church
Phonics/Spelling
- Consonant sounds
- Short vowels
- Long vowels
- Beginning Consonant blends
- Ending consonant blends
- Digraphs
- Contractions
- Compound words
- Endings
- Singular and plural
- Prefixes and suffixes
Writing/Grammar
- Handwriting
- Complete sentences
- Proper punctuation
- Story writing
- Types of sentences
- Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns
- Endings
Science
- Five Senses
- Living and Non-living things
- Plants-parts, what they need
- Animals groups-characteristics and habitats
- The sky-sun, moon, stars, planets
- Weather-types
- Natural resources
- Caring for the Earth
- Properties of matter
- Types of environments
- Forces and energy
Social Studies
- Our community
- Fire Safety
- Native Americans and Thanksgiving
- Christmas Around the World
- Holidays
- American Symbols
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Basic Map Skills
- Past, Present, Future
- Goods and Services