CURRICULUM - 1st GRADE

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics and Reading

  • Review of vowels, consonant, blends, one and two-vowel words, consonant blends
  • Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
  • Special rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent ‘e’, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’
  • Oral reading

Cursive Writing

  • Review of letter formation
  • Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas

Spelling and Poetry

  • Weekly phonics-based word list
  • Reinforcement activities
  • Weekly test with phonics
  • Eight poems committed to memory

Language

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

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, India, China, Australia, Guam, American Samoa

SCIENCE

Plants
- Discovering plants


Animals
- Discovering animals
- Discovering insects

Health and Human Biology
- Discovering myself

Energy
- Discovering my toys

Seasons
- Discovering seasons

HEALTH, SAFETY, MANNERS

Health

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

Manners

  • At home, school, church, public

ARITHMETIC

  • Number recognition and counting 1-1,000
  • Greatest and least
  • Counting and writing by twos, threes, fives and tens
  • Number sequences
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Addition facts through 13 and three-digit addition with carrying
  • Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
  • Story problems
  • Reading a thermometer
  • Multiple combinations
  • Calendars
  • Developing listening skills
  • Numbers before and after by ones, twos, tens
  • Between numbers
  • Counting and combining coins
  • Telling time to the nearest five minutes
  • Recognizing odd and even numbers
  • English and some metric measures
  • Place value in ones, tens, and hundreds
  • Unit fractions
  • Using a ruler
  • Concept of multiplication
  • Reading pictographs and bar graphs
  • Roman numerals

BIBLE

  • Lessons such as Salvation series, Genesis, Life of Christ, Paul
  • Memory verses
  • Hymns/choruses
  • Bible Doctrine

ACTIVITIES

  • Chapel

CURRICULUM

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonics and Reading

  • Review of vowels, consonant, blends, one and two-vowel words, consonant blends
  • Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
  • Special rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent ‘e’, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’
  • Oral reading

Cursive Writing

  • Review of letter formation
  • Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas

Spelling and Poetry

  • Weekly phonics-based word list
  • Reinforcement activities
  • Weekly test with phonics
  • Eight poems committed to memory

Language

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

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, India, China, Australia, Guam, American Samoa

SCIENCE

Plants
- Discovering plants


Animals
- Discovering animals
- Discovering insects

Health and Human Biology
- Discovering myself

Energy
- Discovering my toys

Seasons
- Discovering seasons

HEALTH, SAFETY, MANNERS

Health

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

Manners

  • At home, school, church, public

ARITHMETIC

  • Number recognition and counting 1-1,000
  • Greatest and least
  • Counting and writing by twos, threes, fives and tens
  • Number sequences
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Addition facts through 13 and three-digit addition with carrying
  • Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
  • Story problems
  • Reading a thermometer
  • Multiple combinations
  • Calendars
  • Developing listening skills
  • Numbers before and after by ones, twos, tens
  • Between numbers
  • Counting and combining coins
  • Telling time to the nearest five minutes
  • Recognizing odd and even numbers
  • English and some metric measures
  • Place value in ones, tens, and hundreds
  • Unit fractions
  • Using a ruler
  • Concept of multiplication
  • Reading pictographs and bar graphs
  • Roman numerals

BIBLE

  • Lessons such as Salvation series, Genesis, Life of Christ, Paul
  • Memory verses
  • Hymns/choruses
  • Bible Doctrine

ACTIVITIES

  • Chapel
  • Spanish
  • Art
  • Music
  • Gymnastics
  • Field Trips