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FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM

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

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
  • Expressing ideas orally: clarity, volume, eye contact, keeping to the topic, sequencing of thoughts, standard English, correct grammar, personal voice
  • Types of speaking opportunities: poems, show and tell/sharing, role-playing, creative dramatics, presentation of personal writing, retelling a story
  • Group participation: stays on task

Social Studies

Timetravelers 0 – 1200 C.E.

  • Ancient Greece, Rome, Mayan, early Africa culture

Civics

  • Rules
  • Responsibilities
  • Community service
  • Core Democratic values
  • Solving personal problems
  • 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
  • SVSU sculpture gallery
  • Chippewa Nature Center-sap running
  • Theater plays
  • Library
  • Art Museum

Science

Life Science

  • Organism
  • Personal Health
  • Physical Science
  • Solids and liquids
  • Weight, balance and motion
  • Earth Science
  • Weather
  • Water cycle

Math
Numbers, Numeration, and Order

  • Counting by 2’s to 20
  • Counting backward from 50
  • Counting by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s beyond 110
  • Even and odd numbers to ten
  • Tallies to 100Ones, tens, hundreds place
  • Number words for numerals to 10
  • Ordinal positions
  • Fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4

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

Problem Solving

  • Logic problems
  • Critical thinking