Curriculum
Literacy Topics
-Ask and answer questions about important details in a text.
-Retell stories using important details and understand their message.
-Tell about characters, places, and important events in a story using the important details.
-Find which words and phrases tell about feelings or the senses when reading stories and poems.
-Tell about the differences between story books and informational books.
-Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
-Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
-Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
-Read Grade 1 prose and poetry with help and support from others.
-Identify the main topic and retell important details of a text.
-Tell about the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
-Show understanding of spoken, one syllable words by using the sound patterns of vowels and by blending each sound in the one syllable words.
-Figure out and sound out grade level words by using the strategies of syllables, endings, and letter/sound patterns.
-Understand what is read because we know the words and read smoothly in an interesting way.
-Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly
Writing Topics
-Write an opinion piece that states your opinion, gives a supporting reason, and includes a closing sentence.
-Write an informative piece about a topic that includes an introduction, facts about the topic, and a closing sentence.
-Write a narrative piece with two or more events, using words that signal the order, provide details about the events, and ends with a closing sentence.
-Focus on a topic, answer questions and suggestions from classmates, and add details to my writing with the help of adults.
-Participate in shared research and writing projects.
-Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question with help from adults.
-Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
Math Topics
-Add by counting up and subtract by counting down within 20.
-Add and subtract within 20 with strategies such as using fact families, counting on, doubles, doubles plus 1, and knowing the addends that form the sum of ten.
-Understand subtraction as an unknown addend problem. (Ex: 8+?=10)
-Find the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation involving three whole numbers.
-Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems.
-Solve word problems with three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20.
-Count to 120, starting at any number.
-Write the numeral for a group of objects.
-Understand that ten ones equal a ten and that a two digit number represents the number of tens and the number of ones.
-Compare two two-digit numbers and use the greater than, equal to, or less than symbols.
-Put three objects in order by length.
-Compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
-Find the length of an object by using a different shorter object touching end to end as a unit of measure; comparing the two lengths and counting the smaller lengths.
-Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
-Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories.
-Ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
-Tell a shape form from its defining attributes and also build and draw those shapes.
-Make two-dimensional or three-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape. I can compose new shapes from the composite shape.
-Draw circles and rectangles divided into two and four equal parts using the words halves, fourths, quarters and half of, fourth of, an quarter of.
-Tell about the whole as two of, or four of, the parts. Know that making more equal part also makes the parts smaller.
Social Studies Topics
-The purpose of rules and laws
-Community Helpers
-National Holidays in the US and around the world
-Maps
-Goods and Services
-Elements of Supply and Demand
Science Topics
-Forces and Motion
-Earth in the Universe
-Earth Systems, Structures and Processes
-Ecosystems