Language Arts
We will be introducing all curriculum for language arts using California Treasures. Language Arts includes phonics, spelling, reading fluency, grammar and related writing activities. We also have many interesting units in reading to help your child learn new concepts and meet first grade standards for language arts. Also as part of the Common Core curriculum students are asked thinking questions, to share ideas with their class mates, and asked questions to support their learning.
Math
This year some of the standards to be met are addition and subtraction facts to twenty. The focus is to know these facts especially to 12 and students will be tested on them. Problem solving to show how they came up with the answer to a problem.They will use pictures numbers or words. Other areas related facts, include patterns, time on the hour and half hour, counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens, to 100, solid shapes, making numbers using tens and ones, and two digit adding and subtracting.
Social Science
Many units in our reading also relate to social science. We use the Wonders book for Treasures and our Social Science Curriculum for citizenship,People and Places, Our Country, Changes Over Time, Celebrate Cultures, and Goods and Services.
Science
First grade science is presented by FOSS and is done in the science lab and classroom. The units include solids and liquids, air and weather, and plants and animals. All science activities are hands on and include working with partners and include the science process.