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February-06-2012

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"I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able `to bear it': nay, not even now are ye able;"
1 Corinthians  3:2

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Curriculum - 1st Grade

First Grade Reading Standards

Given the opportunity to read or listen to an appropriate text (including shared reading and read-aloud), the learner will

  • integrate prior knowledge/personal experiences with events in the text
  • predict events
  • identify/discuss characters and setting
  • express thoughts, feeling, judgment, understanding, and attitudes in response to text
  • analyze the behavior of characters
  • attend to a self-selected text for a sustained period of time

The learner will orally read familiar text at the learner's level of instruction, as evidence in part, by the capacity to

  • read with fluency and expression
  • integrate the three cueing systems to maintain meaning (semantic, syntactic, grapho-phonetic)
  • self-correct when miscues interfere with meaning

Presented with a text to read silently at the learner's level of instruction, the learner will demonstrate comprehension of the material in part, by the capacity to

  • retell the story with prompts
  • draw in response to the story
  • tell the most interesting and important parts of the story to the teacher
  • write in response to the story

The learner will understand the concept of phonetic awareness to the appropriate level of instruction.

First Grade Math Standards

  • describe patterns in a variety of ways
  • sort objects based on their attributes
  • use equations to summarize attributes about objects
  • record data to find solutions to a problem
  • use number pairs to describe another number
  • use known numbers to find hidden numbers
  • find a hidden number in an equation
  • use pictures to illustrate numbers

The student will

  • compare and contrast basic properties of common geometric shapes and solids
  • identify basic properties of shapes and solids(numbers of sides,corners) compare similarities and differences between common geometric shapes
  • identify shapes according to various presentations(flip,slide,turn)
  • identify, sort, name and draw shapes(circle, square, triangle, rectangle)
  • illustrate spatial sense(inside, between, etc.) from written and oral directions
  • demonstrate that patterns can be made by putting different shapes together or taking them apart

The student will

  • record data by tallying
  • organize the group data
  • interpret data
  • predict outcomes
  • interpret simple bar, line, and pictographs
  • make a bar graph given the axis

The student will.

  • measure length, width, height, weight using nonstandard units
  • show how estimation leads to awareness of size units
  • measure length using inches
  • make quantitative estimates of familiar linear dimensions, weight, intervals and check them against measurement
  • read and identify dates and days of the week using a calendar]
  • sequence days and months
  • tell time to the hour and half-hour
  • calculate time by one hour
  • know the values of coins
  • add totals value of mixed coins:pennies, nickels, and dimes

The student will

  • add numbers with sums to 18
  • master addition facts with single digits
  • subtract numbers with subtrahends of 18 or less
  • master subtraction facts with single digits
  • add numbers with regrouping of tens place
  • solve addition problems with multiple addends with sums to 18
  • add and subtract two-digit numbers without regrouping
  • model and write fact families (7+3=10, 3+7=10, 10-7=3, 10-3=7)
  • use a number line to demonstrate addition and subtraction

The student will

  • count, read, write numbers 0 to 100
  • compare sets of objects to show more than, less than, or equal to using symbols
  • recognize odd numbers and even numbers
  • round numbers to nearest 10
  • identify place value of ones and tens
  • identify numbers that come before, after, and between
  • represent familiar fractions such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
  • count backwards from 10
  • count by 2's, 5s's and 10s to 100
  • write 2-digit numbers in expanded notation

The student will

  • estimate answers to various problems
  • use simple graphs and charts to locate information to solve a problem
  • use a drawing to help find a solution
  • identify extra information and disregard
  • select relevant information
  • classify and sort a variety of items
  • recognize that a story can include a problem
  • use logical reasoning techniques in solving problems
  • select appropriate operation of addition and subtraction
  • identify and use various strategies such as process of elimination, patterns, manipulatives, tables, logical reasoning, etc. to solve problems
  • write a word problem for a number sentence
  • differentiate between valid and invalid mathematical sentences

First Grade Social Studies Standards

Students will develop and use geographic knowledge and concepts to understand the relationships between human and physical geography. The learner will:

  • describe and locate major geographic features represented on a map
  • identify left and right
  • identify and locate Canada and Mexico on a map

Students will examine the ideals, purposes, and characteristics of political systems to identify how people have organized and governed themselves throughout history. Students will analyze the history of American democracy in order to develop a sense of civic responsibility. The learner will:

  • explain a rule and law. Connect the importance of rules and laws
  • tell why rules and laws are needed for schools and communities.
  • identify symbols of American freedom such as the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, a Bald Eagle, and the American Flag.

Students will examine economic choices, principles, and systems in order to make informed economic decisions for themselves and their society. The learner will:

  • indentify trade
  • identify the purpose of money

First Grade Language Arts Standards

The learner will produce various forms of writing appropriate for a given purpose as evidenced in part by:

  • writing on a self-selected topic related to personal experience;
  • writing a response to a picture;
  • dictating a story in response to a self-selected topic;
  • dictating a story in response to a prompt;

Given an assignment or self-selected prompt (picture, event, experience, discussion, literature, media) the learner will demonstrate some conventions of print including:

  • left-to-right directionality;
  • letter formation;
  • spacing;
  • capitalization;
  • ending punctuation;
  • letter-sound correspondence.