First Grade
Mrs. Been
Mrs. Maurer
Curriculum
Reading
We use a comprehensive reading program, which includes a wide range of literacy activities and carefully selected materials. Some components of the reading program would include familiar reading; phonics and spelling; shared reading; and guided reading and writing. Materials include big books; poems on charts; leveled texts and trade books.
Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011
Skills taught: Initial and final consonants; Blends; Long and short vowels; Word families; Rhymes; Sight words; Decoding and word study; Compound words; Context clues; Picture clues
Teaching methods and resources used: Leveled Readers (C-M); shared reading and shared writing; read alouds; word wall activities; literacy centers; choral reading; phonics series; oral language chants and songs; familiar reading
Language Arts
Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011
Primary Units: Action verbs; adding ed; asking sentences; days of the week; describing words; holidays; months of the year; naming parts of a sentence; nouns; punctuation; word order in sentences; contractions; using is and are; using was and were; using has and have; using I and me; synonyms and antonyms; color words; prepositions and phrases; pronouns; adverbs.
Sentences: Statements; questions; exclamations.
Nouns: plural nouns; proper nouns 
Spelling
We teach phonological awareness through: listening; rhyme; sentences & words; syllable awareness; phonemes; onset & rime and phoneme analysis and synthesis.
Text: Treasures. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 2011 and Phonetic Connections Benchmark Education Company 2011
Primary Units: short vowels; long vowels; digraphs; blends; compounds; contractions
Teaching methods and resources used: paper/pencil; dictionary; white board; ABC letters/ magnet board; manipulatives; Spelling Bee; write whole word; word shape worksheets; dry erase board with markers in literacy centers; cheering/chanting words with movement; clapping words/syllables; crossword puzzles; word searches
Mathematics
Text: Sadlier Mathematics
Primary Units: getting ready; sums to 6; differences to 6; addition strategies; shapes/patterns; place value; addition/subtraction to 12; measurement/fractions; time/money; 2 digit numbers; additions/subtraction to 18
Skills taught: Numbers 1 to 10; patterns; more/fewer; zero; sums 0 – 20; subtraction 0 – 20; double digits; addition strategies/subtraction strategies; shapes; place value for ones, tens and hundreds; numbers 1 – 100; fact families; adding 3 numbers; measuring; fractions; time; money; graphing; calendar; counting numbers 1 – 20; counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s and 100; problem solving; seasons; days of the month; week and year.
Teaching methods and resources used: Text; games; whiteboard; charts; flashcards; manipulatives; math centers; overhead projector; graphs.
Social Studies
Text: A Child's View. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2009
Primary Units: Rules and Laws; Where People Live; We Love Our Country; Our Changing World; Meeting People; The Marketplace; School Days; At Home with Family; Living in a Community; In and Around the Land; My Country; My Heroes; Watermelons; All about Me; Insects; Apples; Fall; Fire Prevention; Thanksgiving; Christmas; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Groundhog Day; Earth; Arkansas; Oceans; Dinosaurs; Pets; Space Rockets; Planets; Spring; Butterflies
Skills taught: Seasonal activities; patriotic holidays; cardinal direction; map skills; citizenship skills; geography
Teaching methods and resources used: Text; map; games; books; stories; charts; whiteboard; teacher made materials; thematic units; videos
Science
Text: McMillan McGraw-Hill Science 2005
Primary Units: Life Science: Plants Are Living Things; Life Science: Animals Are Living Things; Earth Science: The Sky and Weather; Earth Science: Caring for Earth; Physical Science: Matter; Matter Everywhere; Physical Science: On the Move
Skills taught: Classification; habitats; living/non-living
Teaching methods and resources used: Worksheets; centers; field trips; art supplies; lecture; videos; guest speakers; posters; sentence strips; pocket chart.
Religion
Text: Faith First. Legacy Edition RCL Benziger: 2010.
Primary units: Our Church Community; Our Loving God; God’s Son; Jesus; The Holy Spirit; Jesus’ Church of Followers
