First Grade
The Year of Exploration...
Our First Grade program is designed to continue preparing our students for future success in school and life. Our program is hands-on and age appropriate in its approach to learning. We will challenge each student to work hard and excel. Developing a student’s ability to think, reason and solve problems will result in an educated, contributing citizen of tomorrow.
Our curriculum follows the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) to build a foundation for Second Grade and beyond.
Language Arts
- Demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print. Understands there are correct spellings for words. Identifies the beginning and ending of a paragraph
- Demonstrates the ability to identify and orally manipulate words and individual sounds within those spoken words
- Isolates beginning, middle and ending sounds in single syllable words
- Automatically segments one syllable words into sounds
- Recognizes grade level words and their meanings
- Makes predictions from pictures and titles
- Self monitors comprehension and rereads when necessary
- Distinguishes fact from fiction in text
- Uses a variety of strategies to understand and gain meaning from grade level text
- Uses appropriate end punctuation and correct capitalization
- Begins to use common rules of spelling
- Writes complete sentences with correct subject-verb agreement
- Acquires and uses grade level words to communicate effectively
- Reads and listens to a variety of texts for information and pleasure
- Begins to use dictionary and glossary skills to determine word meanings
Math
- Tells time to the nearest hour and half hour and understands the movement of the minute hand and how it relates to the hour hand
- Organize and record data using objects, pictures, tally marks and picture graphs
- Identifies bills ($1, $5, $10, $20) and their value. Exchange equivalent quantities. Be able to count out a combination of bills needed to purchase items less than $20
- Study and create various 2 and 3 dimensional figures. Identify basic figures within them.
- Compare and contrast and/or classify geometric shapes by the common attributes (position, shape, size, number of sides and corners)
- Arrange and describe objects in space by proximity, position and direction
- Estimate, model, compare, order and represent whole numbers up to 100
- Understands place value notation for the numbers between 1 and 100
- Identifies one more than, one less than, 10 more than, 10 less than a given number
- Begins to understand the relationship of calendar time (number of days in a week and months of the year)
- Add and subtract numbers less than 100 without regrouping
Science
- Develop an awareness of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness and skepticism in Science.
- Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of the questions by making careful observations and measurements and trying to figure things out.
- Understand Science involves collecting data and testing hypotheses.
- Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.
- Investigate light and sound
- Study the effects of magnets on other magnets and other objects
- Use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities.
- Investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals
- Compare and describe various animals—appearance, motion, growth, basic needs
- Identify the parts of a plant—root, stem, leaf, and flower.
Social Studies
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship
- Describe the work people do
- Identify goods that people make and services that people provide for each other.
- How money is used to purchase goods and services
- Understand that people have to make choices about goods and services because of scarcity
- Describe American Culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs.
- Locate all of the continents and all of the oceans
- Identify and describe landforms (mountains, deserts, valleys, plains, plateaus, and coasts)
- Be able to explain the meaning of the patriotic words to America (My Country 'Tis of Thee) and America the Beautiful.
- Students will read or listen to American folktales and explain how they characterize our national heritage. The study will include John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Annie Oakley.
- Students will read about and describe the life of historical figures in American history (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark with Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Washington Carver)
Physical Education
- Participates in developmentally appropriate health-related fitness activities
- Georgia Performance Standards are covered including: movement concepts, spatial awareness, physical fitness and rules and safety
- Steps are taken to maximize participation and allow each student to feel successful
Music & Art
- Identifies and names contrasts in music (long-short; fast-slow; and high-low)
- Moves expressively to music
- Responds to music through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments
- Demonstrates awareness of a steady beat
- Mixes primary colors to create secondary colors
- Uses a variety of art materials
- Creates artworks emphasizing one or more art elements
- Applies and compares concepts of patterns from other disciplines (music, math, and poetry)
Assessments
- Informal assessments are on-going daily
- Formal assessments are done one-on-one in each academic area
- Assessments in the form of a report card are done four times a year
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