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First Grade
Curriculum Overview
Bible - Elementary Bible Series Grade 1
(ACSI 1995)
- ACSI Bible Curriculum; Theme: God’s Gifts to Me”
- Apply God’s truths to classroom situations and daily
lives
- Christian character traits as seen in Old and New
Testament
personalities
- Memorize Scripture passages
- Using prayer in our daily life
- Singing about Biblical truths and praising God
Reading/Language Arts - Reading Street Series
(Scott Foresman 2007)
- PHONICS:
- Decoding: Consonant sounds & Short and long
vowels
- Introduce consonant & vowel digraphs,
diphthongs
- Introduce combinations er, ir, or, ar
- Introduce consonant blends
- Introduce suffix: -s, -ing, -ly
- Participate in listening to, reading, and
discussing different
various genres of literature
- Identify main idea Predict events Drawing
conclusions
- Build strategies such as context clues to
unlock meanings of
unfamiliar words
Writing - Handwriting (Zaner Bloser
2003)
- Prewriting as part of writing process
- Editing and revising
- Penmanship
- Writing journals, stories, thank you
notes
- Using correct end punctuation and
beginning capitalization
Math - Mathematics (Houghton
Mifflin 2002)
- Mastery of addition and subtraction
operation
- Math facts 0-18
- Introduce word problems in addition
and subtraction
- Names of coins and their values
- Graphing data and interpreting
- Introduce place value
- Mastery by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Mastery of telling time to hour and
½ hour
- Introduce addition of money
- Introduce fractions: 1/2, 1/4 and
1/3
- Introduce different forms of
measurement
Science and Health -
Science (Houghton
Mifflin 2007)
- Living & non-living things
- Differences between plants &
animals
- How plants grow
- Changes in weather conditions,
seasons
- Animals: body parts, movement
- Looking at the earth
- Looking at the sky
- God makes bodies grow
- How things move
- Environment
- Health
- Using the scientific method for
problem solving
- Organizing and classifying
information
- Interpreting data from
experiments/demonstrations
Social Studies- People and
Places (McGraw-Hill 2003)
- God made each of us a
special Water & land forms on
maps
- God gives us families
- Directionality
- Rules
- Early explorers
- Good manners
- Native Americans
- Fair treatment of others
- Trading
- Sharing responsibilities
- Cause & effect relationships
- Needs and wants
- Voting as decision making
- Similarities and differences
of people
- Using our skills to serve
others
Music
- Steady beat in music
- Forms:
repetition/contrast
- Long and short tones
- Note direction and pitch
- Singing spiritual/sacred
music
- Tempo, dynamics
- Tone color in voice and
instruments
- Movement to express mood
or style
Physical Education –
Dynamic Physical
Education for School
Children (Allyn & Bacon
1995)
- Movement awareness
activities
- Simple games and
activities
- Ball skill
development
- Simple rhythm
activities
- Use of scooters,
jump ropes, and
parachute
- Stunts and tumbling
skills
- Playground
activities
- Playground apparatus
exploration
- Physical fitness
activities
- Biblical awareness
development
Art
- Taking care of
supplies
- Pencil drawing
- Drawing
3-dimensional
objects
- Overlapping in
visual art
- Creativity with
paper mache’
- Primary and
secondary colors
- Paper weaving
- Paper mosaics
- Collage art
- Name and
reproduce geometric
shapes
- Painting with
watercolors and
tempera paints
- Clay (pinch
pots)
Computer
- Once weekly
- The First Grade uses Global
Academics curriculum to produce a cross
curricular project each quarter.
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