Bible

• Old Testament: God created the perfect world; Choices in the family
• New Testament: Jesus, God's Son, the Perfect Person
• Weekly scripture memory
• Integration of Biblical worldview in all subjects

Language Arts

• Phonemic awareness: recognize and imitate sounds, associate words and stories with the printed page
• Phonics instruction: identify consonants, vowels, and their sounds; blend sounds; distinguish between words and sentences; decode phonetic words; introduction to syllable sounds, initial diagraphs, vowel patterns
• Word analysis: word families, auditory recognition of plurals
• Fluency: use syntactic and semantic cues; recognize 100 sight words, read sentences
• Vocabulary:  learn new vocabulary in context, identify and use antonyms
• Comprehension: recognize story sequence, make predictions, retell, respond to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions, identify the characters and main idea of a story, recognize cause and effect
• Listening:  Follow oral directions; listen to a variety of literature; demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
• Speaking: Make personal needs known appropriately; share experiences
• Spelling: Decode and encode 3-letter phonetic words; alphabetize letters and 3-letter words
• Writing: Write letters and numbers, begin the writing process, recognize capitalization and end punctuation in a sentence

Math

• Numbers and operations: Number sequence to 100 and skip counting; introduction to addition and subtraction; Place value and equality; fractional parts of a whole
• Measurement: Calendar, time, money, customary measurement
• Geometry:  Plane and solid figures
• Graphs: Simple bar and pictographs
• Estimation
• Probability: Fair and unfair games; terms: certain and impossible
• Algebraic reasoning: Patterns
• Problem solving strategies

Mathematical concepts are taught with manipulative materials, direct instruction, guided practice, small group exploration, independent practice, and written, oral, and performance assessments.

Social Studies

• Civics:  Families and structure
• Economics:  Community services
• Geography:  Maps and globes
• History:  American holidays

Science

• Life science: Living/Non Living things, needs, survival; parts and uses of plants; animals and their young, pets; five senses, good health habits
• Earth science: Landforms, water forms, natural resources; weather changes, seasons
• Physical science:  Movement, uses of magnets; properties of matter; color, light, shadow

Library:  Two classes per week

• Orientation to the Media Center
• Introduction to children’s literature, authors, and literary awards
• Reading enjoyment
• Introduction to a variety of media
• Story elements

Physical Education:    Two classes per week

• Fitness activities, movement, motor skills, balance and agility, introduction to ball skills, group games, and weekly half mile run.
• Application of rules and techniques, participation, and sportsmanship

Music:   One class per week

• Elements of music: Learn to keep a steady beat; explore basic contrasts in music (short/long, high/low, loud/soft, fast/slow, same/different) through singing, moving, listening, playing instruments
• Vocal music: Differentiate between the speaking and singing voice; learn to match pitch
• Listening: Recognize orchestral families and instruments; listen to and discuss various composers and their works, as well as music of various styles and cultures

 

Maintained by Donna K. Fitch, Passarola Designs. Last updated: December 11, 2007