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)

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

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

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

LANGUAGE ARTS

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
 

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

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

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
  • 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

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

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