Valentine Hills First Grade Curriculum Overview


LANGUAGE ARTS

READING
    A love and appreciation for reading/literature
    A wide variety of materials
    Phonetic analysis skills
    Basic structural analysis skills
    Comprehensive skills
    Oral Reading
    Decoding skills
    Early Intervention in Reading
    Guided Reading

WRITING
    Pictures used to communicate ideas or tell stories
    Writing skills
    Writing for various purposes or audiences
    Various genres of literature
    Development of writing process
    Creative writing

LISTENING AND SPEAKING
    Multi-cultural, gender-fair literature
    Expanded vocabulary
    Higher level thinking skills
    Retelling a story
    Main idea, characters, setting
    Speaking with confidence


MATHEMATICS

    Measurement
    Patterns
    Addition/Subtraction strategies
    Fractions
    Place value, place 10
    Telling time
    Coins: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar
    Developing number sense
    Equivalent groups
    Numbers to 130
    Geometry
    Story Problems
    Symmetry


HEALTH

    Friendship
    Individual/community worth
    Family life
    Conflict resolution
    Emotion management


TECHNOLOGY

    Introduction to basic computer operations
    Creating projects with sound and graphics
    Searching electronic catalogs
    Learning about authors and book genres


SCIENCE


CLASSROOM FOSS SCIENCE
    Animals (chicks and butterflies)
    Balance and motion
    Air and weather

SCIENCE LAB
    Pattern blocks
    Fossils
    Brine shrimp study
    Winter birds
    Tangrams
    StarLab
    Friction electricity
    Balancing
    GrowLab
    Microscopes
    Mirror cards
    Crystals


SOCIAL STUDIES

    Map skills
    Family and neighborhoods


VOCAL MUSIC



ART



PHYSICAL EDUCATION




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