Welcome to 1st Grade
Homeroom Teachers: Mrs. Litfin
Mrs. Peitz and Mrs. Philp
Curriculum
Religion (Blest Are We) by Silver Burdett Ginn: A Scott Foresman Imprint
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Understanding your relationship to Jesus
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Identify, know and recite prayers of the Church
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Explore a basic understanding of the Catholic Church
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Attend weekly school mass
Math (Houghton Mifflin - Math Expressions)
Language Arts (McGraw-Hill)
- "Buddy Reading" with older students
- Apply the knowledge of the sounds, the sound-symbol relationship, and word recognition strategies to read grade-level materials
- Use of phonetic based program literature
- Expand reading, listening, and speaking voacabularies
- Compose various pieces of writing
- Cover all letter recognition and sounds. The Letter People are interactive friends of each letter of the alphabet to develop literacy, oral language, and social skills. Each letter person has a personality and song to help the children remember letter sound in a fun way.
- Read a wide variety of fiction, poetic, and nonfiction texts
Handwriting (Zaner-Bloser)
- Improve formation of letters and numbers.
- Space words and sentences appropriately
Spelling (McGraw-Hill)
- Pre-test on Monday
- Post test on Friday
- Weekly words that coorelate with literature stories, and match the phonics studied in that lesson
Social Studies (Houghton Mifflin)
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Explore family
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Present information about yourself to the class
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Explore the make up of the family unit
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Learn about following personal safety rules
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Possess a visual sense of our world
Science (McGraw Hill)
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Explore plant and animal life
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Recognize matter and how it changes
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Explore force and motion.
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Explore planets.
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Observe seasonal weather changes
Other
Students attend weekly classes in Spanish, Music, PhyEd, Technology and Media Center
Homework
First grade students are expected to have approximately 10 minutes of homework each night
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