First Grade Curriculum

What does learning look like in first grade?

Reading

Reading is incorporated throughout the day in first grade. We provide multiple opportunities for students to independently read books that they are interested from our classroom library. Small groups meet in the morning for instruction including strategies, comprehension, phonics, and vocabulary development. Children are placed in reading groups according to ability. Once a book is finished in reading groups, it will come home in their reading bag to be read and discussed with you, giving you an idea of the progress your child is making. Please record this book on the reading log and return it to school the next day. Reading logs are colored coded and have spaces to record 50 books. When your child finishes a reading log, they will return it to us for a new reading log. Look for reading logs to come home in early October.

Writing

Writing is incorporated throughout the entire day with interactive writing, class made books, reading group activities, writing journals, application problems, book publishing, letters, thank you notes, etc. We conduct writer’s workshops where the children write individual journal entries and move towards writing original stories and poems for publishing. We encourage individual growth through one on one conferencing. Self and peer editing of their writing is taught and encouraged.

Math

While math encompasses a variety of content, adding and subtracting numbers to 10 fluently and word problems make up most of our curriculum. Other areas covered this year include:

· Number sense (counting in a variety of ways, number writing to 100, place value and number comparison, ordinal numbers, addition and subtraction).

· Patterning

· Geometry (two and three dimensional shapes)

· Measurement

· Identifying money and counting pennies, nickels, and dimes

· Time (hour and ½ hour)

· Graphing

· Problem solving, reasoning, making connections, and

explaining through processes