Course of Study: First Grade

Social studies

1. holidays, traditions, customs
2. personal heritage
3. different cultures at different times
4. family, school, neighborhood, community
5. farm and zoo
6. neighborhood helpers
7. jobs and careers
8. social skills and responsibilities
9. basic geography terms
10. making and reading a simple neighborhood map
1. Science
1. grouping and classification
2. living and nonliving things
3. animals - farm, zoo, circus, woodland, and (South African)
4. common birds
5. plant and animal habitats
6. seeds, plants, bulbs, flowers
7. weather and seasons
8. day and night
9. solids, liquids, gases
10. air and water
11. magnets
12. fire and temperature
13. sun, moon, stars, planets
14. simple machines
15. beginning experimentation
16. scientific method and scientific inquiry
2. Language Arts
1. Reading
1. Phonetic analysis
2. structural analysis
3. sight word vocabulary
2. Reading informally: names, labels, signs
3. simple pantomimes and dramatic play
4. creating stories and poems
5. telling favorite stories
6. organizing ideas and impressions
7. enunciation and pronunciation
8. presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity
9. book reports and critiques
10. discussion skills/ group discussion
11. beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
12. beginning spelling
13. beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
14. introduction to punctuation and capitalization
15. manuscript handwriting
16. handling books
17. using table of contents
18. make a "class" newspaper
3. Health/Safety
1. Personal hygiene
2. Dental health
3. good eating habits
4. exercise and rest
5. diseases
6. common cold
7. dressing for weather and activities
8. safety rules
4. Mathematics
1. Counting and writing to 100
2. Counting by 2's to 40
3. Simple number patterns
4. Beginning ordinal numbers
5. Using 10 as a basic unit
6. Simple properties of zero
7. Simple properties of sets
8. Beginning subtraction and addition facts
9. Number-line use
10. Place value and numeration
11. Concepts of quantity and size
12. Concepts of quality and inequality
13. Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers
14. Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately
15. Estimation
16. Geometric patterns and figures
17. Basic customary and metric measurement
18. Recognizing time: clock and calendar
19. Value of coins
20. Solving simple word problems
21. Basic probability and chance
22. Basic chart and graph concepts