First Grade Curriculum
Holy Spirit students in First Grade will:
RELIGION
- Understand that Baptism makes us children of God and welcomes us into the Christian family as followers of Jesus
- Demonstrate reverence for the Church building as a sacred place
- Pray daily
- Recite the following prayers by memory: the Sign of the Cross, the Hail Mary and the Lord’s Prayer
- Retell the bible stories of creation, the birth of Jesus and the Easter story
- Recognize that Jesus teaches us how to love God and to love our neighbor
- Understand that the Church is God’s family and it is our responsibility to help each other be holy
MATH
- Practice arithmetic skills to help solve word problems
- Develop fluency in addition and subtraction
- Utilize skills to solve problems in a variety of ways
- Use manipulatives and other hands-on experiences to understand the relationships between numbers
- Explore place value, telling time, patterns, and shapes
- Engage with adaptive software to enhance and differentiate student learning
READING
- Read fluently
- Develop a lifelong love and enjoyment of reading through multiple teaching strategies including guided and independent reading
- Build phonemic awareness and recognize more complex words while reading
- Focus more on comprehension, as their reading ability grows
- Recall the main idea and details of an informational text as well as the characters, setting, problem and solution of fictional literature
- Benefit from balanced literacy approach includes guided and independent reading, phonics, grammar, handwriting, speaking and listening
WRITING
- Collaborate with peers and teacher to brainstorm, draft, and publish their work
- Respond to fiction and non-fiction text in writing
- Express their own personal feelings and experience
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Develop an understanding of their rights and responsibilities as citizens
- Learn and appreciate our country's symbols and their significance
- Compare and contrast the world long today with the historical past
- Gain an understanding of basic economics and the role of goods and services
- Read and use a map to locate and identify places and geographic features
MUSIC
- Review the note values and symbols we learned in Kindergarten
- Learn the first eleven notes on the Treble Clef, Middle C to high F
- Learn the phrases and word to learn and remember the notes on the staff
- Sing and play simple songs and put movement to song
- Be encouraged to enjoy singing, expanding their range and confidence to sing in front of others
- Perform in the Advent Program and Spring Sing musical program
- Music class meets once per week for 40 minutes
