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First Grade

 

 

 

 

 

Language Arts

 

Reading

s Use general skills and strategies of the

reading process

• Use basic elements of phonetic analysis (vowel sounds, beginning and ending consonants, word families) to decode unknown words
• Read common words as sight words
• Use prior knowledge and experience to understand new information

 

s Read, interpret and respond to literary and

nonliterary texts

• Understand the order of events in a story
• Know the traits, feelings and actions of characters in a story
• Know the setting of a story
• Know the theme or main idea of a story

 

s Locate, use and communicate information

from a variety of print and non-print

materials

• Know basic information about a book (author, illustrator, title, table of contents)

 

 

 

 

 

Writing

s Use general strategies and skills of the

writing process to write for a variety of

purposes and audiences using a variety of genres

 

• Use left to right sequencing and spacing between words
• Print numbers and letters (upper and lower case)
• Use the mechanics of writing (capitalizes names and first letter of a sentence and uses end punctuation)
• Begin to use the steps of the writing process (prewriting, writing, proofreading, and sharing)
• Spell common, phonetically regular words
• Begin to recognize nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Focus on a topic in writing (a familiar person, place, object or experience)

 

 

 

 

Math

 

 

• Review reading, writing, and ordering numbers to 100
• Add and subtract to 18 using basic strategies
• Solve addition and subtraction problems to 18
• Develop knowledge of plane and solid figures
• Identify halves, thirds, and fourths of a whole

• Work with various forms of measurement
• Identify and count mixed coins
• Learn to tell time to the hour and half hour
• Identify place value (ones and tens)
• Skip count by 2’s 5’s, 10’s
• Compare numbers using greater than, less than,

and equal to

 

 

• Create patterns
• Practice estimating
• Use tallies, bar graphs, and pictographs to

represent information

• Introduce two digit addition and subtraction

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

• Continue to develop vocal skills
• Continue to work with rhythm and beat

(note values)

• Listen to and describe various musical styles
• Begin learning the uses of music in life

 

 

 

 

Science

Demonstrate knowledge of:

• Plants/Seeds
• Senses
• Nutrition/Body Growth
• Living/Non-living
• Animal Characteristics
• Air/Weather/Climate
• Environment/Earth Day
• Habitats

 

 

Social Studies

Demonstrate knowledge of:

• Safety-Fire, Strangers
• Manners
• Family
• Seasons
• Calendars/Months
• Maps/Globes
• Lincoln/Washington
• Flag/Pledge
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Ground Hog Day
• Money
• Schools/Community
• Holidays

 

 

Art

 

• Identify warm and cold colors in their art work
• Identify and use a variety of lines in their art work
• Learn basic vocabulary related to their art work
• Explore the crayon resist technique
• Learn how to make scratch art

 

 

Physical Education

 

• Demonstrate progress toward the mature form of selected manipulative, locomotor and non-locomotor skills
• Demonstrate mature form in walking and running
• Establish a beginning movement vocabulary (e.g., personal space, high/low levels, fast/slow speeds, light/heavy weights, balance, twist)
• Begin to identify likes and dislikes connected with participation in physical activity
• Identify the physiological signs of moderate physical activity (e.g., fast heart rate, heavy breathing, sweating)
• Share space and equipment with others; follow gymnasium rules and safety procedures along with routines
• Interact positively with students in class regardless of personal physical differences
• Associate positive feelings of participation in physical activity.