First Grade Curriculum

Reading

Units of Study include:

  • Monitoring for Meaning

  • Retelling/Summarizing

  • Determining Importance/Asking Questions

  • Making Inferences

  • Making Connections

In addition to the comprehension strategies above, we will build our decoding and fluency skills. We will use a phonics program called Fundations. Fundations teaches phonics rules, decoding skills that will support our first graders in reading and writing. First graders will also learn sight words (trick words) in the Fundations program. For more information on Fundations, click here.

For tips for reading at home with your child, click here.

You can find the Wayland grade 1 English Language Arts curriculum here.

Writing

​Units of Study include: ​

  • Personal Narrative (Small Moment Stories)

  • Opinion

  • Informative/Explanatory

For ways to support your child at home, click here.


Mathematics

Units of Study include:

  • Counting and Graphing

  • Introduction and Strategies for Addition and Subtraction

  • Linear Measurement and Data

  • Advanced Addition and Subtraction

  • Place Value

  • Time and Money

  • Geometry

​For more information on Wayland's math curriculum, click here.


Science

Units of Study include:

  • Plants and Animals

  • Light and Sound

  • Air and Weather

  • STEAM--Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics

Social Studies

Units of Study include:

  • All About Me

  • Leadership

  • Family Traditions

  • United States Symbols

  • Mapping

Social and Emotional Learning

Open Circle:

Units of Study include:

  • Listening skills

  • Remaining calm

  • Expressing anger appropriately

  • Cooperation

  • Problem solving

In addition to the Open Circle curriculum, we will supplement social emotional learning skills through the Responsive Classroom approach.

Responsive Classroom Approach:

  • Community building

  • Brain breaks and energizers

  • Morning Meeting and Closing Circle

For more information on Responsive Classroom, click here.