1st Grade Curriculum

1st Grade Curriculum

Links to detailed curriculum from diocese

Social Studies-Math-science

ela standards

Curriculum Overview

Math

• Numbers to 100
• Understand the concepts of same, more, and fewer
• Use concrete models to explore and identify money and subtract money
• Analyze and solve problems using skills and strategies
• Develop and use strategies for addition and subtraction up to 18
• Understand counting on, counting back and using doubles
• Work with fact families and add and subtract two-digit numbers

Spelling

• Recognize letters and consonant sounds that are used to form words
• Identify, read and spell high frequency words used by students at the first grade level
• Develop strategies for spelling success and connect spelling to writing

Language Arts

• Recognize word order in sentences and identify declarative and interrogative sentence types
• Identify and recognize subject, predicate, complete subject and complete predicate sentence parts
• Understand and define the meaning of nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Identify present and past verb tenses
• Demonstrate an understanding of language arts mechanics, capitalization and punctuation.

Reading

• Students learn to read
• Use phonics to know the letter shapes, names and sounds and learn to blend sounds to make words
• Understand that words can be put together to form sentences, paragraphs and stories
• Read and learn the meanings of unfamiliar words
• Use phonetic cues to decode meanings
• Demonstrate an understanding of sequence; all stories have a beginning, middle, and end
• Understand the differences between “make-believe” stories and “real-life” stories
• Read a variety of literary forms to include fiction and nonfiction
• Read for sustained periods of time and select books for personal reading interests

Religion

• Understand that the Church is God’s House, demonstrate reverence for the Church’s sacred place
• Understand that we are the church, God’s family, the people of God, the Body of Christ
• Understand that we are called to be honest and fair with all people
• Develop an understanding of: Baptism, Eucharist, Gospel, Grace, Resurrection, Sin, Altar, Crucifix, Forgiveness, Advent, Christian, Catholic, Creation, and Kingdom of God

Social Studies

• That every person and family is unique and special
• That every family has rules
• That families work together, cooperate and share
• Realize that families live both in the United States and other lands
• Recognize that all people have basic needs for food, clothing, shelter and affection
• Distinguish between needs and wants
• Realize that people earn money to pay for their needs and wants
• Realize that every neighborhood is different
• Describe the major types of land forms and bodies of water found in the United States
• Define resources as materials form the earth that people use to meet their needs
• Identify the planet where we live as Earth
• Identify the four cardinal directions as North, South, East, and West

Science

• Know about plants and what makes them alike, different, shapes, groups, leaves, and how to determine the age of a tree
• Know the life cycle of a plant
• Identify and explain the concept of “growing up”, understand that people change as they grow
• Recognize the components that form weather
• Identify and describe the water cycle