First Grade

First Grade Scope & Sequence

The First Grade Scope & Sequence shows what teachers plan to teach each quarter of the school year. The scope and sequence lists the academic expectations for each academic subject. Click on the document to expand and see all of the subjects. More information can be accesssed below to learn about specific skills first graders will be learning during the school year.

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English Language Arts

In first grade, your child will build important reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Students will continue to learn foundational reading skills through the use of phonics. Shared reading and read alouds will be used to engage them in their learning. They will think, talk, and write about what they read in stories, articles, and other sources of information. In their writing, students will work on putting together clear sentences using more descriptive words.

Activities in First Grade ELA

Letter sounds, blends, etc.

2. All students read together with the teacher and have their own book.

3. Each week we have a phonics skill to practice. Students complete dictation sentences and written responses to the stories.

4. Sentence Writing: “I saw a dog.” Students are taught to add more detail. “I saw a brown dog at the park.”

5. Students will listen to stories and complete tasks as a group, with partners, or individually.

6. Skills block daily to meet individual students' needs in reading.

Mathematics

In grade one, students will work with whole numbers and place value— including grouping numbers into tens and ones as they learn to add and subtract up through 20. The concepts of ordering and length will be introduced. Students will also use charts, tables, and diagrams to solve problems. They will also learn to identify, compose, and partition shapes and time.

Activities in First Grade Mathematics

Number line, counters, 120 number chart, number bonds, and fingers to add and subtract.
Use taking from 10 strategy to add and subtract teen numbers.
Use nonstandard items to measure such as cubes and paper clips. Represent data using graphs.
Using greater than, less than, equal to, to compare numbers. Use manipulatives to represent numbers and visually identify.
Use shapes to partition into halves and fourths. Understand 2D and 3D shapes and how to compose by using shapes to create new shapes. Use clocks to practice time to the hour and half hour.
Use pictures or tens/ones to identify and compare numbers.
Daily fact checks on adding and subtracting.

Science

Science topics at the first grade level are embedded in their reading program. Below are many of the topics which students will read about and discuss.

How do apples grow?

Why do leaves change color?

The Popcorn Book (5 senses)

Tops and Bottoms/From Seed to Plant

embryology

Activities in First Grade Science

Our activities are seasonal/theme based around books we are reading and include some hands-on things.

Hatch Chicks

In first grade, students focus on learning how all people play an important role in the community; a few basic civics lessons will be taught. The following people and their contributions to society will be studied: George Washington, Abe Lincoln and Ben Franklin. After these lessons, students will discuss how they could contribute to society.

Activities in First Grade in Social Science

Our activities are seasonal/theme based around books we are reading and include some hands-on things.

Physical Education, Music, and Art

Physical education, music, and art is provided to the students several times a week. Students are exposed to a variety of exercises, musical, and artistic experiences.

Right - The "ghoulish" first graders are enjoying a game of Monster Mash during PE.

Activities in First Grade Physical Education, Music, and Art

The standards for Grade One Visual Arts continue to emphasize that the visual arts are about ideas. Development continues in cognitive, affective, sensory, and motor domains. The standards continue to emphasize the language of art. Art production focuses on increased communication, self-expression, and the depiction of stories and events. Students learn that people have different responses to works of art.

The focus in PE will be on skills such as running, throwing and catching. Midway through the year, the focus will shift to cooperation games and game play.

In first grade, students will learn the concepts of ascending/descending, beat/no beat, rhythm, and melody. They will also study the Nutcracker and Peter and the Wolf to help strengthen these ideas. First grade will performa holiday concert every year.

First Grade - Christmas Concert 2021

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