First Grade Curriculum Overview

	Fall	Winter	Spring
Language Arts Literature reflects integration of Science, Social Studies, and Health as well as selected authors and illustrators; journals, writing workshop.	Review of letter sounds through poems and songs; Reading and rereading predictable text; Preprimer text from basals and leveled trade books; Handwriting; Word Analysis: phonetic elements, sight words.	Small group and independent reading: reading and rereading familiar and predictable text; texts from basals and leveled trade books; Word analysis: phonetic elements, sight word instruction; focus on core spelling list; Handwriting; Sentence writing; Alphabetical ordering.	Reading: comprehension, reading for meaning; focus on core spelling list; Word analysis: phonetic elements, sight word instruction; small group reading; Independent reading; Writing instruction: brainstorming ideas, first drafts, edit and publish books.
Math Concepts introduced are developed and built upon all year, including problem solving and collecting and sorting data through surveys. Computers support all curriculum.	Investigations Units: “Mathematical Thinking” and “Building Number Sense”; Number recognition, formation and comparison; Addition and subtraction; Fact families; Making 10; Number line; Counting on, adding 0 and 1; 1 more than; 1 less than.	Investigations Units: “Quilt Squares and Block Towns” (geometry); begin “Number Games and Story Problems;” Experiences with addition and subtraction through 20; three addends, building numbers/tens and ones; 100 day activities.	Investigations Units: continue “Number Games and Story Problems;” “Bigger Taller, Heavier, Smaller” (measurement); Addition and subtraction without regrouping; Introduction to: hundreds place; money: pennies, dimes, nickels; Time: hour and half hour.
Social Studies Getting to Know You- History; Travel Bears-Geography; Building a Caring Community- Civic Responsibility.	Time capsule: a first look at history; Introduction to geography: places and location; Class Meetings: respect, responsibility and making friends.	Folk Tales: history is the story of people in the past; Maps: creating and reading maps; Travels with Felix; Learning geographic vocabulary; Problem solving and conflict resolution.	Time Capsule: time lines, chronology, past, present and future; Where in the World: climate and communities; Boston; Cooperative skill building; Transitions- moving on.
Science	Tidepools Getting Ready For Winter	Nocturnal Animals Nutrition	Chick Growth And Development
Health The Great Body Shop	“Look Out!” “Head to Toe” “All About Medicine”	“Talk and Listen” “Happy Sad And In Between” “Drugs Are Dumb” “Why Do We Eat?”	“Get Well Soon” “How I Breathe” “Run, Jump And Skip”
Field Trips/ School Events (Budget Dependent)	Trip to Fourth Cliff Fire Department Visits Thanksgiving Family Brunch	Audubon Ark Visits Dental Clinic Visits Family Nutrition Breakfast	Trip to “Make Way for Ducklings”