FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM
(Kdg - 5th Grade Curriculum .pdf)

Language Arts
Reading/Literature
• Comprehension strategies: rereading, predicting, sequencing, cause/effect, classifying, paraphrasing, summarizing
• Story elements: character, setting, problem, solution, main idea
• Types of literature: realistic fiction, fantasy, fable, biography, poetry
• Types of informational text: science and social studies books, menus
• Accelerated Reader

Language
• Weekly spelling
• Grade appropriate mechanics: end punctuation, quotation marks, capitalization
• Grade appropriate grammar and sentence structure: complete sentences, statements, questions, exclamations
• Vocabulary: word families, synonyms, antonyms
• Reference skills: picture dictionary

Writing
• Prewriting and drafting strategies, drawing pictures, sharing ideas
• Revising and editing strategies: completing a draft elaboration
• Types of writing: narrative, poetry, business, friendly letter, expository
• Thinking map skills (graphic organizers)

Penmanship
• Legible manuscript: upper and lower case letters with and without a model

Speaking and Listening
• Follows two-step and generates three-step directions
• Listening: takes turns, raises hand, focuses on speaker, avoids interrupting, asks appropriate questions
• Expresses ideas orally: clarity, volume, eye contact, keeping to the topic, sequencing of thoughts, standard English, correct grammar, personal voice
• Types of speaking opportunities: poems, personal voice/sharing, role-playing, creative dramatics, presentation of personal writing, retelling a story
• Group participation: stays on task

Social Studies
History
• Families, School, jobs, communication—Past and present
• Sequencing/timelines
• Primary sources

Civics
• Rules
• Responsibilities
• Community service
• Power & authority
• Responsible citizen/public Issues
• Core democratic values
• Solving personal problems/fairness
• Reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance”

Geography
• Five themes: movement, regions, human/environment interaction, location, place
• Map of the classroom and familiar places
• Symbols for charts, graphs, maps

Economics
• Resources, opportunity cost, scarcity
• How families meet needs and wants
• Making economic choices, goods/services
• Careers

Multicultural Education
• Focus on cultural universals

Field Trips/Guest Speakers
• Planetarium
• YMCA
• Theater plays
• Library
• `Weather
• Animal Exhibits
• SVSU Sculpture Gallery
• Chippewa Nature Center-sap running

Science
Life Science
• Our senses
• Life cycles
• Living & Non-living
• Habitats

Earth Science
• Weather
• Land, water & air
• Matter

Health
• Staying safe
• Foods
• Hygiene

Scientific Processes

IB Units
• Who we are: Making wise choices
• Where we are in place & time: Families past and present
• How we express ourselves: Pictures tell stories
• How the world works: Weather
• How we organize ourselves: Trade, jobs, money
• Sharing the planet: interconnectedness of plants & animals

Technology
• Typing program (home row keys)
• Microsoft Word (typing, editing, printing)
• Internet searches
• Internet safety
• Internet ethics

Math
Numbers, Numeration, and Order
• Counting backward from 110 starting from any number
• Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s beyond 110
• Even and odd numbers
• Tallies to 100
• Ones, tens, hundreds place
• Number words for numerals
• Ordinal positions
• Fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4. equal parts

Operations, Relations, and Number Systems
• Addition and subtraction facts to 12
• Sums and differences of one two digit numbers without regrouping
• Equations using +, –, =
• Commutative property
• Addition and subtraction fact families
• Add or subtract 10’s and multiples of 10 using a number grid
• Mental math
• Accelerated math

Measurement and Reference Frames
• Nonstandard units of measure
• Instruments for measuring
• Estimating length
• Day, date
• Telling time to the hour or half-hour
• Value of coins, counting, exchanging coins
• Thermometers
• Balance scales
• Weighing objects

Geometry and Spatial Relations
• Squares, circles, rectangles, octagons, hexagons
• Spheres, cubes, cylinders, cones, pyramids, rectangular prisms

Problem Solving
• Logic problems • Critical thinking

Patterns
• Pattern unit
• Growing/repeating patterns

Date & Probability
• Chart
• Graphs: reading & interpreting
• Tallymarks