Educational Programs - First Grade
| Language Arts |
Phonics and Reading
- Review of vowels, consonants, blends, one- and two-vowel words, consonant blends
- Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
- Spelling rules; doubling consonants, dropping silent e, changing y to i
- Oral reading
Cursive Writing
Review of letter formation
Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas
Spelling and Poetry
Weekly phonics-based word list
Weekly test with phonics
Reinforcement activities
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Language
- Capitalization of first word in a sentence, proper names
- Days of the week, months of the year
- Correction punctuation at the ends of sentences
- Recognition of complete sentences
- Words using suffixes, prefixes, compound words, syllables, rhyming words, opposite words, same meaning words, contractions
- Alphabetizing of words
- Writing complete sentences and short stories
- Creative writing
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| History and Geography |
This is My America
My America’s Flag
My America’s Freedom
Symbols of My America
Great People of America
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My America Grows
My America Talks
My America Travels
My America is Beautiful
My America Sings
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This is My World
Mexico, Peru, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Bahamas, England, The Netherlands,
Norway, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, Israel, Egypt, India, China,
Australia, Guam, American Samoa.
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| Science |
Health and Human Biology
Discovering Myself
Energy
Discovering My Toys
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Animals
Discovering Animals
Plants
Discovering Plants
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Seasons
Discovering Seasons
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| Health, Safety, Manners |
Health
Eating good foods
Exercising
Rest
Posture
Care of body, clothes, home
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Safety
At home and away from home
On streets, playgrounds, water
Manners
At home, school, Church, public
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| Arithmetic |
- Number recognition, counting, and Writing 1-1,000
- Greatest and least
- Counting and writing by tens, fives, twos, and threes
- Number sequences
- Ordinal numbers
- Addition facts through 13 and three-digit addition with carrying
- Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
- Story problems
- Numbers before and after by ones, twos, tens
- Between numbers
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- Counting and combining coins
- Telling time to the nearest 5 minutes
- Recognizing odd and even numbers
- English and some metric measures
- Place value in ones, tens, and hundreds
- Unit fractions
- Reading a thermometer
- Using a ruler
- Multiple combinations
- Concept of multiplication
- Calendars
- Reading pictographs and bar graphs
- Developing listening skills
- Roman numerals
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| Bible |
Bible Truths
Memory Verses
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