Curriculum

First Grade Curriculum Highlights


BALANCED LITERACY APPROACH

  • Fundations Phonics Program
  • Reading Workshop
  • Read Alouds
  • Guided Reading
  • Shared Reading
  • Writing Workshop
  • Interactive Writing
  • Shared Writing


COMMON CORE MATH

  • Module 1 - Sums and Differences to 10
  • Module 2 - Introduction to Place Value through Addition and Subtraction within 20
  • Module 3 - Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers
  • Module 4 - Place Value, Comparison, Addition and Subtraction to 40
  • Module 5 - Identifying, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes
  • Module 6 - Place Value, Comparison Addition and Subtraction to 100


SCIENCE Healthy Habits

Human Body - Bones

Magnets

Peace Garden Related Activities

Environmental Studies

Liquids and Solids

Insects

SOCIAL STUDIES Bucket Filling

Peacemaking

Conflict Resolution

Families

Looking at the past - Life 400 and 250 years ago -- Philipsburg Manor

Native Americans and Pilgrim's Old Plymouth

Holidays around the world

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Current Events

MINDFULNESS ACTIVITIES AND SENSORY PATHS