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Elementary Academics First Grade
Bible:
- Know and understand the stories and messages in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible
- Able to read and retell traditional stories according to Moses
- Comprehend and recite memory verses in song
- Understand the simplified versions of the teachings of Jesus during his life on Earth
- Following the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule and the Beatitudes in everyday situations
- Application of Biblical principles in school, home, and community is stressed weekly
- Through projects, discussions, activities, songs and daily prayer, our Savior Jesus Christ and the importance of maintaining a healthy relationship with Him is continually emphasized
Reading:
- Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
- Understand the basic features of reading
- Recognize letter patterns and know how to translate them into spoken language by using phonics, syllabication, and word parts
- Apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral reading
Concepts About Print
Written characteristics of books and poems
Phonemic Awareness
Recognize sounds and rhyme
Decoding and Word Recognition
Blending sounds, recognizing sight words, word families, root words, prefixes and suffixes, compound words, contractions, and quotations
Vocabulary and Concept Development
Classify grade-appropriate categories of words (e.g., animals, foods, toys)
- Reading Comprehension
- Read and understand grade-level-appropriate material
- Draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources)
Structural Features of Informational Materials
Identify text that uses sequence or other logical order
Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions
Follow multiple step written or verbal instructions
Use context to resolve ambiguities about word and sentence meanings
Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text by identifying key words (i.e., signpost words)
Relate prior knowledge to textual information
Retell the central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages
- Literary Response and Analysis
- Read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children's literature
- Distinguish between the structural features of the text and the literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters)
Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and character(s) in a story, as well as the story's beginning, middle, and ending
Describe the roles of authors and illustrators and their contributions to print materials
Recollect, talk, and write about books read during the school year with complete thoughts and clear sentences
Writing:
- Writing Strategies
- Write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea
- Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose
- Progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions)
- Add descriptive words and spell sight words and word family patterns correctly on paper
- Penmanship is legible with proper spacing
- Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
- Write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences
- Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English
- Using the school wide writing program, students are able to distinguish between fact and opinion
- Can create fact or opinion sentences and structure paragraphs in proper sequence
- Can write brief narratives describing an experience and write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event, using sensory details
Mathematics:
- Understand and use the concept of ones and tens in the place value number system
- Add and subtract small numbers with ease
- Measure with simple units and locate objects in space
- Describe data and analyze and solve simple problems
- Count, read, and write whole numbers to 100, identify place value for each digit, compare using <, =, > and identify and know value of coins
- Demonstrate the meaning of addition and subtraction (to 20) and use these operations to solve problems
- Count by 2s, 5s, 10 to 100, use inverse relationships between addition and subtraction to solve problems and find the sum of three one-digit numbers
- Use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones, tens, and hundreds places
Algebra & Functions
- Use number sentences with operational symbols (+, -, +) and expressions (more than, left, in all) to solve problems
Measurement and Geometry
- Use direct comparison and units of measure to describe the measurements of objects
- Tell time to the nearest quarter; know relationships of time and timing of events
- Identify common geometric figures, classify them by common attributes, and describe their relative position or their location in space
Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability
- Organize, represent, and compare data by category on simple graphs and charts
- Sort objects and data by common attributes and describe the categories
- Represent and compare data (e.g., largest, smallest, most often, least often) by using pictures, bar graphs, tally charts, and picture graphs
- Sort objects and create and describe patterns by numbers, shapes, sizes, rhythms, or colors
- Describe, extend, and explain ways to get to a next element in simple repeating patterns (e.g., rhythmic, numeric, color, and shape)
Mathematical Reasoning - Problem Solving
- Make decisions about how to set up a problem (numbers, pictures, words)
- Solve problems and justify their reasoning
- Note connections between one problem and another
Social Studies:
- Describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship
- Understand the rule-making process in their classroom, school, and
community
- Understand the elements of fair play and good sportsmanship, respect
for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which
we live, including the meaning of the "Golden Rule." (Luke 6:31)
- Compare and contrast the locations of places and people and describe
the physical and/or human characteristics of places now and long ago
- Understand our role as Christians in our neighborhood, community,
and in the world
Know and understand the symbols and traditions of the United States
- 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 and some stay the same
- Describe human characteristics of familiar places and the varied
backgrounds around the world
- Understand basic economic concepts and the role of individual choice
in a free-market economy
Science:
- Materials come in different forms, including solids, liquids, and gases. These forms change under different conditions and have different properties
- Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways (Gods plan external features, food, shelter, environment)
- Weather can be observed, measured, and described. Monitor weather conditions and record changes. Seasons have trends and sun warms land, air and water on Gods earth
- Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigation. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations
- Draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described
- Record observations and data with pictures, numbers, or written statements
- Discover biblical verses and uncover meaning to confirm that Gods Word is powerful in the exploration of His world
- Describe the relative position of objects by using two references (e. g., above and next to, below and left of)
- Make new observations when discrepancies exist between two descriptions of the same object or phenomenon
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