First Grade
To view 1st grade curriculum, please click on the link at the left.
HEALTH
- Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
- Develop healthy and safe habits (hygiene and disease prevention)
- Say "No" to unhealthy situations (drugs, strangers, inappropriate touch, etc)
- Explain the differences between proper uses of drugs and drug abuse
- Identify the five food groups
- Demonstrate safe practices (play, in school, home, pedestrian and vehicular)
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ART
- Identify primary colors
- Use various lines and shapes in artwork
- Use various media to create visual and tactile surfaces
- Differentiate between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects through building and sculpting
- Expose to famous artists
- Use art as self-expression
- Appreciate fine art and multicultural influences as they enhance learning
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MUSIC
- Sing and echo rhythmic patterns and melodies
- Use Movement to express many different concepts in music
- Demonstrate the ability to keep a steady beat
- Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
- Learn basic musical notation
- Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
- Participate regularly in physical activity
- Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
- Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
- Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
- Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction
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LANGUAGE ARTS
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Reading
- Left to right progression
- Use phonetic skills to read a selection
- Use word structure skills to read new words
- Use sight vocabulary and context clues to read
- Identify the characters, setting, problem & solution of a story
- Use before-reading strategies to help understand a selection
- Explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction material
- Monitor their own reading for understanding
- Understand what they read
- Reflect upon their reading
- Learn to read for information
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Speaking
- Orally present completed work for an audience
- Clearly, concisely and sequentially relate a personal experience
- Be respectful of others in communication situations
- Talk about books
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Writing
- Write a complete sentence
- Write a simple paragraph
Listening
- Follow any 3-step direction
- Be an active listener
Spelling
- Spell one-syllable words from common word families
- Students will use letter/sounds and word walls to spell words
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MATH
- Counts and writes numbers by: 1/s to 110, 2’s to 110,5’s to 110, 10’s to 110
- Adds and subtracts by 0,1,2, to 20
- Writes 3 digit numbers from dictionary
- Tells time to the hour and half-hour
- Adds 3 1-digit numbers (6+1+3=10)
- Arranges number set in order
- Measures lengths using non-standard units
- Creates and describe repeating and growing patterns
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- Creates, reads and interpret graphs using pictures
- Actively engages in story problems
- Understands place value for ones, tens and hundreds
- Recognize and counts coins, penny, nickel, dime and quarter
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SOCIAL STUDIES
- Distinguish between past, present and future
- Construct and interpret simple maps of familiar environment incorporating a map key
- Identify ways to preserve our environment
- Identify rules at school and consequences for breaking those rules
- Interpret fairness as it relates to themselves and others
- Acquire, interpret, and share information from people, books observation, audio/video recordings, photos, simple maps, graphs, and tables of life
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SCIENCE
- Identify the things plants & animals need to exist
- Compare & contrast living and non-living things
- Choose an animal and create its habitat
- <!--[if !supportLists]--> <!--[endif]-->Identify a variety of objects by either solid, liquid, and gas
- Classifies the changes matter make from one form to another
- Classify sources of light (natural and mankind)
- Create and describe how to make a shadow
- Construct a rainbow with the appropriate colors