What will my child learn this year?  

 First grade is a very exciting year!  This is the year your child will learn to  read, comprehend, think, create and work together. 

Below is an outline of the first grade curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards.  

WRITING AND LANGUAGE ARTS: 

Students will......... 

* create a story with a beginning, middle and end  

* write stories across different genres (narrative, opinion, informational) 

* use writing conventions(capitalization/punctuation/grammar) 

* create illustrations to correspond with written words 

* write in complete sentences 

* focus on four different genres of writing (narrative, informational, opinion and research)

* have exposure to different types of literature 

READING: 

Students will...... 

* recognize upper and lower case letters 

* identify consonant sounds (beginning, middle, end) 

* recognize and use vowel sounds (long/short) and apply rules  

* use appropriate decoding skills including blends (e.g. br,st) and  

digraphs (e.g. sh, th) 

* use sight word families for word use and spelling (e.g.mat, cat, hat) 

* develop sight vocabulary- words seen often in print (e.g.and, the,  because) 

* use pictures, phonetic and contextual clues to develop meaning 

* read with meaning 

* develop listening skills 

* make comparisons and contrasts 

PENMANSHIP: 

Students will......... 

*form and use upper and lower case manuscript letters appropriately (e.g. raBBit should be rabbit) 

* letter and word spacing 

MATH: 

Students will......... 

* recognize and write numbers to 120 

* add and subtract facts to 20 

* construct appropriate equations to solve simple written math problems 

* work using rote counting, money,measurement, geometry, graphing and estimation 

* tell time in hour and half hour intervals

* recognize and identify value of coins 

* begin to understand place value 

* calendar 

* counting by 2's, 5's and 10's 

* patterns 

*money

*repeated addition & sharing equally

SOCIAL STUDIES: 

Students will............. 

* understand the makeup of a family unit and how his/her family is part of a community 

* understand the importance of safety as it relates to home and school 

* holidays, US symbols and landmarks 

* rules, responsibilities, laws 

SCIENCE: 

Students will............. 

* properties (characteristics for materials such as its shape, size and color) 

* organizing ourselves to do science investigations 

* investigation of properties of objects 

* states of matter- solids, liquids, gas 

* plants and animals  

RELIGION:

Students will...........

*participate in Mass and prayer services

* learn how to pray, including Mass responses and hymns.

*read and retell stories from the Bible

*learn about the lives of saints

*infuse values and faith into daily life

CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY: 

Students will........... 

*log on and off  devices

*use IXL to participate in assigned content and skill practice

*problem solve and critically think with Dash, mTiny and Code and Go Mouse robots.

* become aware of the keyboard 

* use iPads to reinforce math, reading and writing.

*become a Digital Citizen

Summer Assignments 25/26