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
