Curriculum » Grade 1
Language Arts
  • Literacy:
    • Phonemic awareness
    • Print knowledge and concepts of print
    • Amerging reading/writing skills
  • Phonics, word analysis, spelling, vocabulary and fluency:
    • Phonics and decoding skills
    • sound and letter patterns
    • word structure
    • meaning relationships
    • context clues
    • vocabulary building
  • Comprehension
    • Strategies and skills
    • Critical thinking
  • Genres and literary craft:
    • Fiction
    • Non Fiction
    • Poetry
    • Song
    • Literary devices
    • Authors' craft and style
    • Illustrators' craft and style
  • Literary Response and appreciation
  • Grammar and usage in speaking and writing
  • Writing process, strategies and skills
  • Mechanics in writing
  • Research and study skills
  • Understanding and using reference sources
  • Understanding and using graphic sources

Handwriting
  • Developmental based curriculum using visual, auditory, tactile and Kio esthetic lessons
  • Writing manuscript letters, capital and lower case

Social Studies
  • Map and Map keys
  • Land and water
  • Directions
  • Globes
  • Map label

Math
  • Number sense and computation
    • Counts by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's and 100's
    • Reads and writes numbers to 122
    • Identifies place value in numbers to 1000
    • Identifies ordinal numbers
    • Identifies even and odd numbers
    • Identifies pairs
    • Adds and subtracts to 18
    • Identifies missing addends
    • Adds two digit numbers without regrouping
    • Subtracts two digit numbers without regrouping
  • Fractions
    • Identifies fractional parts of a whole
    • Identifies fractional part of a set
    • Finds half of a set of objects
  • Money
    • Identifies and knows the value of coins
    • Selects coins for a given amount
  • Geometry
    • Identifies and describes geometric figures
    • Solves spatial problems
    • Identifies right and left
    • Identifies first, last, between, middle
  • Measurement
    • Identifies calendar and date
    • Identifies months of year and days of the week
    • Is able to tell time to the hour and half hour
    • Measures length using metric and customary units
    • Compares objects by weight
    • Uses estimation to determine capacity
  • Data Analysis
    • Identifies a graph
    • Uses a graph to solve problems
    • Draws and reads a bar graph
  • Patterns
    • Identifies missing number in a sequence
    • Identifies missing shape in a repeating pattern

Science
  • Plants
    • parts of plants and what they do
    • plants and parts that we eat
  • Animals
    • animals by movement and coverings
    • animals to their home
    • parts of an insect
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