Curriculum – First Grade:

Religion

Students will learn:

  • that God gives us many gifts
  • about the life of Jesus
  • that Jesus teaches us to love
  • that they belong to the Catholic church
  • that the Holy Spirit is sent to help them
  • to celebrate the different feasts, seasons, and people of faith
  • how Catholics worship, live, and pray
  • what catholics believe
  • to participate in weekly liturgies
  • to participate in service projects

Reading and Language Arts

Students will learn:

  • letter/sound correspondence
  • sight word vocabulary
  • decoding skills
  • comprehension skills
  • fluency
  • sentence structure
  • punctuation
  • fiction and nonfiction writing
  • editing

Math

Students will learn:

  • addition and subtraction concepts and strategies
  • addition and subtraction facts
  • fact families
  • number patterns
  • place value to 100
  • comparing and ordering numbers
  • to read graphs and tables
  • solid figures and plane shapes
  • problem solving strategies
  • fractions, halves, fourths, thirds
  • counting and using pennies, nickels, and dimes
  • telling time to the hour and half hour

Social Studies

Students will learn:

  • where we live-neighborhoods, communities
  • where we belong-families and friends
  • citizenship-making choices, voting
  • map skills using models, map keys, directions
  • about needs and wants, people working
  • about the world’s land and water
  • caring and using natural resources
  • our country’s history-theĀ  first people in America, Christopher Columbus, Pilgrims
  • to celebrate American holidays
  • to make a difference in our world

Science

Students will learn:

  • systems
  • kinds of living things
  • magnets
  • weather and seasons
  • earth’s land and water

Health

Students will learn:

  • how to keep fit and healthy
  • safe and not safe touch
  • personal safety
  • conflict resolution strategies

Art

Students will learn:

  • color
  • working with different mediums
  • art appreciation