1st-Grade

1st-GradeOverview

Teacher Demographics
Schedule/Hours
▶100% Degreed in Elementary Education
▶Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 2:50 p.m.
▶6 years total tenure, 2 years with The Sloan School
▶Before and After School Care available

Curriculum
Other
▶Phonics-based, highly regarded A Beka curriculum
▶ Lunch: Nutritious lunch provided each day

▶ Snacks: Snack at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Student Teacher Ratio
▶ 1:20 or 2:26

1st-Grade Curriculum

Language Arts
Phonics and Reading Spelling and Poetry
  • ✔Review of vowels, consonant, blends, one and two-vowel words, consonant blends
  • ✔Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
  • ✔Special rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent ‘e’, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’
  • ✔Oral reading
  • ✔Weekly phonics-based word list
  • ✔Reinforcement activities
  • ✔Weekly test with phonics
  • ✔Eight poems committed to memory
Language Cursive Writing
  • ✔Capitalization of first word in a sentence, proper names, days of the week, and months of the year
  • ✔Correct punctuation at the ends of sentences
  • ✔Creative writing
  • ✔Alphabetizing of words
  • ✔Writing complete sentences and short stories
  • ✔Words using suffixes, prefixes, syllables, compound words, rhyming words,opposite words, same meaning words, and contractions
  • ✔Review of letter formation
  • ✔Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas

Science
Plants Health and Human Biology
  • ✔God’s plan for seeds
  • ✔God’s plan for me
Animals Earth and Space
  • ✔God’s plan for animals
  • ✔God’s plan for the seashore
  • ✔God’s plan for weather
  • ✔God’s plan for the seasons

History Geography
This is My America: This is My World:
  • ✔My America’s Flag
  • ✔My America’s Freedoms
  • ✔Symbols of My America
  • ✔Great People of America
  • ✔My America Grows
  • ✔My America Talks
  • ✔My America Travels
  • ✔My America is Beautiful
  • ✔My America Sings
  • ✔Mexico, Peru, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, England, The Netherlands, Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Egypt, India, China, Australia, Guam, American Samoa

Health, Saftey, and Manners
Health
  • ✔Nutritious food – Exercising – Rest – Posture – Care of body, clothes, and home
Safety
  • ✔At home and away from home – On streets, playgrounds, water
Manners
  • ✔At home, school, church, public

Arithmetic
  • ✔Number recognition and counting 1-1,000
  • ✔Greatest and least
  • ✔Counting and writing by twos, threes, fives and tens
  • ✔Number sequences
  • ✔Ordinal Numbers
  • ✔Addition facts through 13 and three-digit addition with carrying
  • ✔Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
  • ✔Story problems
  • ✔Reading a thermometer
  • ✔Multiple combinations
  • ✔Calendars
  • ✔Developing listening skills
  • ✔Numbers before and after by ones, twos, tens
  • ✔Between numbers
  • ✔Counting and combining coins
  • ✔Telling time to the nearest five minutes
  • ✔Recognizing odd and even numbers
  • ✔English and some metric measures
  • ✔Place value in ones, tens, and hundreds
  • ✔Unit fractions
  • ✔Using a ruler
  • ✔Concept of multiplication
  • ✔Reading pictographs and bar graphs
  • ✔Roman numerals

Bible
  • ✔Hymns/choruses
  • ✔Memory verses
  • ✔Bible Doctrine
  • ✔Lessons such as Salvation series, Genesis, Life of Christ

Activities
  • ✔Chapel
  • ✔Spanish
  • ✔Art
  • ✔Music
  • ✔Gymnastics
  • ✔Field Trips