First Grade
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What Your Child Will Learn in First Grade
Reading
- Building a foundation for reading using the decoding process
- Emphasizing word analysis techniques
- Long vowels
- Digraphs
- Consonant clusters
- Vowel pairs
- Blends
- R-controlled vowels
- Compound words
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Base words
- Prefixes, suffixes, syllables, possessives, abbreviations, and contractions
- Developing comprehension skills through consistent, controlled vocabulary used in appealing anthologies and phonics library book of stories, verbs, nouns, pronouns
Writing/Composition
- Learning cursive handwriting, using Calvert Script (the distinctive, easy-to-learn method of handwriting used in our Day School)
- Emphasizing simple lines and legibility
- Strengthening fine motor skills and attention to detail
- Forming letters, words, and simple sentences
- Simple punctuation
Mathematics
Featuring Calvert Math
- Using numbers to 100
- Simple fractions
- Solid and plane shapes
- Money
- Equivalent amounts
- Fact Families
- Measuring
- Adding and Subtracting 2-digit numbers
- Place value
- Problem Solving
- Telling Time
Science
- Scientific method
- The Sun, Moon, and stars
- Shadows
- Seasons and weather
- Properties of matter, solids, liquids, and gases
- Forces and movement
- Living and non-living things
- Growth and change
- Human systems
- Energy
- Land and water habitats
- Earth’s surface and resources
Social Studies
- Exploring original read-aloud narratives that include biographies of well-known explorers
- Political figures, inventors, and leaders in American life
- Accounts of famous events (first Thanksgiving; Civil Rights movement)
- Investigating the five themes of geography, compass direction, maps, symbols, globes, and physical features
- Developing the foundation of American civics and government (rules, authority, elections, voting)
- Examining the basic economic concepts of needs and wants, work, production, markets and money; activities included
Technology
Application lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools integrated with curriculum:
- Beginning keyboarding
- Creating and formatting word processing documents
- Computer parts and navigation
- Developing graphics skills
- Visual mapping basics
- Internet activities integrated with Reading and Science texts
Poetry
- Memorizing and appreciating
Games & Activities
- Developing creativity and motor skills
