1st Grade

Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Religion are all taught to students during the first grade year. All objectives for each subject are outlined below:

Reading and Writing:

• Phonemic awareness

• Decoding and word recognition

• Vocabulary and concept development

• Reading comprehension of appropriate grade level text

• Fluency

• Writing strategies for writing sentences and paragraphs

• Sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation

• Spelling

Mathematics:

• Total value of a collection of coins

• Understand and use numbers up to 100

• Demonstrate the meaning of addition and subtraction, and use these operations to solve problems

• Understand the place value of ones, tens and hundreds

• Use number sentences with operational symbols and expressions to solve problems

• Tell time to the hour and half hour using digital and traditional clocks

• Identification of common geometric shapes and their classification by common attributes

• Organize, represent and compare data by categories on simple graphs and charts

• Reasoning on how to set up a problem, solve it and justify it

Science:

• Understand the concept of plants and animals meeting their needs in different ways

• Understand how the weather can be observed and described

• Understand the concept of materials coming in different forms

• Locate body parts and their functions

Social Studies:

• Describe rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship

• Compare and contrast geographic locations of places and people

• Understand symbols, icons and traditions of the United States that provide a sense of community across time

• Compare and contrast everyday life in different times and places around the world.

• Recognize that some aspects of people, places and things change over time while others remain the same.

• Understand the concept of exchange and the use of money to purchase goods and services.

Religion:

• Understand and appreciate God's love

• Familiarization with events in Jesus' life through Bible stories

• Incorporation of good values into daily activities