First Grade
Throughout First Grade, our students are challenged to develop academically, socially, and emotionally.
Art
While in Art, your student will be learning these standards in our classrooms:
- Develop art skills using a variety of media such as drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, mixed media, or textile/fiberwork
- Develop an awareness and appreciation of many artists and cultures from historical and aesthetic perspectives
- Recognize and uses a variety of lines, shapes, textures, and colors in his/her own work
- Recognize the primary and secondary colors and mixes colors to meet creative needs
- Demonstrate the concept of space (empty, full) through their own artwork
- Name and use geometric shapes
English Language Arts
Health
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:
- Respect and understand personal safety, peers safety, and classroom safety
- Understand growth and development
- Understand and practice disease control and prevention
- Practice Interpersonal skills
Math
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of numbers by ordering, reading, writing, comparing, and representing numbers
- Demonstrate and explain strategies to solve real world problems and mathematical equations
- Demonstrate understanding of money
- Demonstrate understanding of time
- Demonstrate number sense
Music
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:
- Sing a variety of songs tunefully
- Move and perform patterns within a steady beat
- Echo/read/perform rhythm patterns using quarter and eighths notes and quarter rests
- Sing and read so-la-mi patterns
- Understand that music is written down
- Improvise
- Value and enjoy music
- Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
Media
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:
- Apply reading skills to meet individual needs
- Select and use appropriate technology for educational and personal goals
- Analyze information in electronic and print media
- Use a variety of productivity tools to communicate
- Follow a systemic research process
- Recognize ethical practice in a global society
Physical Ed.
While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:
- Know the benefits of physical activity
- Contribute to a team effort
- Play by the rules
- Demonstrate locomotor movements: start, stop, walk, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop
- Demonstrate manipulation skills: catch, throw, pass, shoot, striking
- Move in various directions: forward, backward, sideways
- Move at varying speeds: slow, fast, increasing,decreasing
- Develop a positive self-image and attitude
- Practice good sportsmanship in success and failure
- Listen and follow directions