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Curriculum:
First Grade Content Summaries
Language
Arts & Reading - Georgia Performance Standards -
www.georgiastardards.org
In
first grade, students continue phonological development. They make major
growth in learning to read by developing more advanced phonics skills and an
expanding bank of sight words. They read, listen to, and discuss a variety
of texts. They begin to make connections from text to their own lives and
experiences while monitoring and self-correcting their own reading. They
make major developments in writing – using the writing process to plan and
produce stories with focus and organization. Students begin to learn the
rules of language and spelling, and they expand sentences and recognizing
paragraphs. They increase the appropriate use of formal language registers
as they move towards mastery of language use in reading and writing for
pleasure and information.
Math
- Quality Core Curriculum -
www.glc.k12.ga.us/qcc/homepg.aspp
By
the end of grade one, students will add and subtract up to 18, use math
symbols +, -, and =. Students will write numbers from words 0 to 20 and use
the terms “first” through “tenth”. Students will identify shapes, positions
such as “before” and “after”, and relationships such as “larger than”,
“smaller than”, and “inside of”. They will read, construct, and understand
graphs. They will solve one-step word problems both in oral and written
form.
Science – Georgia Performance Standards -
http://www.georgiastandards.org/science.aspx
First grade students
make observations, ask questions about, and investigate patterns. They learn
best from their own actions. Therefore, they make predictions and plan
simple investigations in order to understand the world around them. They
notice repeating patterns in shadows, weather, and daily needs of plants and
animals. Students raise questions about the world around them and seek
answers by making observations. They use whole numbers to analyze scientific
data. They identify what things can do when put together and what cannot be
done when things are not put together. First graders create drawings that
correctly depict something being described. They follow safety rules
Social Studies: Families and Cultures of North
America – Quality Core Curriculum
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www.glc.k12.ga.us/qcc/homepg.asp
The
focus of the first grade program is the study of North American families
with a special emphasis on the United States. Other themes include wants and
needs, transportation and communication, rules, citizenship
responsibilities, and national symbols. Skills include locating school
locations on a map, using map keys, and using a compass rose with cardinal
directions.
Health
The
first grade health curriculum is organized around eight major strands of
study. These strands include: alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; disease
prevention; family living, human growth and development; mental health;
nutrition, personal health, and safety. |
