First Grade

Home | SAS Experience | Academics | Lower School | First Grade

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS, PHONICS, SPELLING

Students will learn:

All vowel and consonants sounds, digraphs, blends and apply them to their reading and writing
How to orally blend words and sentences, know how many syllables they hear in a word, and rhyming
To use decoding skills to read text on their reading level and read many types of genre
To recognize, read and write sight word list for first grade
To use inventive spelling to begin writing and then transition to proper spelling of words
To write various types of writing such as autobiography, personal narrative, how to, informative, invitations, thank you notes, and friendly letters
To use reading response journals and journal writing to enhance and understand the relationship of reading to writing
How to read proficiently with a fluency rate of at least 60+ words per minute
By reading a variety of poetry, fiction, non fiction, and religious stories
To use a variety of reading strategies for comprehension: Main Idea & Details, Compare/Contrast, Summarizing, Categorizing, Drawing Conclusions, Asking Questions, Inferencing, Fact/Opinion, Cause & Effect
How to participate, set goals, and reach their goals using Accelerated Reading Program

Resouces: McGraw Hill Wonders

RELIGION

Students will learn:

To pray and recite The Sign of the Cross, Blessing Before Meals, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Prayer of St. Francis, The Guardian Angel Prayer, and participate and pray The Rosary
Attend mass weekly and to be reverent and respectful
Plan, participate , and be in charge of a class Mass and an All First Grade Mass
The various Feast Days and celebrate the various church celebrations within the Church calendar listen and learn lessons from the Old and New Testament stories in the Bible
To use the Bible stories to learn how to be a follower of Jesus
The stories of the Saints
About the sacraments of the Catholic Church focusing on their Baptism as they complete a Baptism Project during October
About service by articipating in projects such as weekly food offering at weekly Mass for the Food Pantry, visiting and singing at the Our Lady of Victory Retirement Home for Nuns, Thanksgiving food boxes , and other service projects as needed for those in need

Resource: Blest Are We, RCL Benziger

MATH

Students will learn:

Resource: Pearson Envision Math

SCIENCE

Students will learn about:

Resource: STEMScopes

SOCIAL STUDIES

Students will learn about:

My School, My Community ( Citizenship, Rights and Responsibilities, Rules and Laws, Leaders and Government, Symbols of My Country
Work in My Community (Goods/Services, Making Choices, Buying and Selling, Spending and Saving, Jobs People Do)
Looking at Our World ( Mapping Skills, Land and Water, Continents and Oceans, Our Environment) Transportation)
Traditions (Different Cultures, Likes and Differences, Sharing Our Culture, Celebrations)
Our Past, Our Present ( Measuring Time, Talking about Time, Learning about History, American Heroes, Inventors, Life Then and Now, Technology Then and Now)

Resource: Pearson My World Social Studies