1st Grade Curriculum

 

Below please find an overview of Our Lady of Loretto School's First Grade Curriculum:

Religion
Faith First Series

The First Grade program focuses on:
 

  • God Gives Us Many Gifts
  • Jesus' Life
  • Jesus Teaches Us to Love
  • We Belong to the Cathoic Church
  • The Holy Spirit Helps Us
     
The Program also introduce the sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist, and Reconciliation.

Prayers
Sign of ther Cross
The Lord's Prayer
Hail Mary
Glory Be to the Father
Grace Before Meals 

Reading
Scott Foresman Series

·  Read orally with fluency
·  Strategies for word identification
·  Recall information read
·  Understand story characters
·  Draw conclusions and predict outcomes
·  Distinguish between fact and fiction
·  Summarize a story
·  Become exposed to a variety of authors, illustrators and literay style

Language Arts
Modern Curriculum Press
Phonics

Identify
·  beginning and ending sounds
·  consont short and long vowel sounds
·  compound words
·  ed,ing,and s as endings
·  blend sounds into spoken words

Step Up to Writing
Effective,  Multisensory Writing Strategies
Improves: Writing, Reading, Listening and Speaking

D'Nealian Writing

Mathematics
Simple Solutions (Daily Math)
Mathletics (web based program)

  • Count, read and write, and order numbers to 99
  • Use symbols +,-, and =
  • Identify the terms sum, difference, more than. and equal
  • Learn addition and subtraction facts to 10
  • Problem solve addtion and subtraction facts to 12, usind manipulatives
  • Be exposed to the basics of fractions
  • Compute two digit addition and subtraction without regrouping
  • Add columns of three one-digit numbers with sums to 12
  • Demonstrate understanding of place vakue to the tens
  • Read time to the hour and half hour
  • Apply understanding of value of pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters
  • Count, add, and subtract money
  • Construct and interpret simple graphs and charts


Science
The program focuses on:

  • Physcial
  • Earth
  • Life

The students will participate in hands on activities, projets, and experiments revolving around the major strands.


Social Studies
Scott Foresman
The program focuses on:

  • School
  • Home
  • Community
  • Places Far Away with links to the past and present

Students will also participate in projects and activities
in the areas of: 

  • Techology
  • Physical Education
  • Music 
  • Art
  • Spanish

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