First Grade Curriculum

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Reading

• Forty different vowel sounds
• Mastery of consonant and blend sounds
• Sight word development
• Vocabulary development (approx. 2000 words)
• Reading in paragraph form
• Fluency in reading
• Rhythmic reading
• Readers:
• Blue Reader and Workbook
• Green Reader and Workbook

Spelling

• 101 spelling sounds
• Weekly spelling lessons
• Vowel Chart (see below)
• The pitches of the different vowels
• Twenty-word spelling tests
• Dictations
  

Grammar

• Sentence analysis using: who, doing, what, when, where, whom
• Identify parts of speech: noun, verb, and adjective
• Verb conjugations: past, present, future
• Irregular verbs
• Contractions
• Punctuation: capitalization, period, question mark, and possessive :s:
  

Literature

• Pelle’s New Suit
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Writing

• Cursive
• Original illustrated stories on a given topic
• Composition Forms with five sentences
• Daily journal writing
  

Math

• Book: The Language of Numbers
• Addition and subtraction patterns
• Addition and subtraction facts
• Operations: +, -, x
• Houses – place value
• Word problems and proofs
• 2, 3 and 5 Multiplication tables through x 12
• Time
• Money
• Math drills for mastery
• Calendars
• Cardinal and ordinal numbers
  

Science

• Plants and their needs - Identifying and labeling the parts

• Animals and their needs – carnivores, food chain

• Weather

• Solar System

• Matter

• Life cycles of animals

• Butterfly project – raising butterflies

• Dog Breed project – written report on a specific breed to be presented orally

                             – diorama

Social Studies

• Rules and laws

• Where people live

• Maps and globes

• Our country

• The flag and American symbols

• Washington D.C.

• Presidents Washington and Lincoln

• Study of Important Figures (Martin Luther King, Washington, etc.)

• Our changing world – past vs. present

• All about people – different cultures

• Marketplace – jobs, goods and services

Spanish

Music

Art

Computer

Physical Education

1st Garde Vowel Chart
a+	e+	i+	o+	u+	Light u = (L/u) = oo   Word List: put push pull bush bull
ay	ey	-	oy-oi	-
a	e	i	o	u
ar	er	ir	or-ore	ur
aw au augh	ew eu		ow ou
all al			oo (moon) oo (book)
			old
	ed		ould
	eigh	igh	ough
		ild	ought
		ind
		ing	ow