Grade 1                                                                                          Language Arts

Grade: 1

Instructional Goals

On-Going

Resources/Tools

D’Nealian Handwriting

Key Vocabulary

Handwriting lessons, D’Nealian

Alphabet strips

monkey tail

Letter formation, spacing

Big books

fish hook

 

Wordbooks

 

Posture

OT consult

 

Grips

D’Nealian Work sheets

 

Grade: 1 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Alphabet: letter and sound recognition

My Alphabet Museum, Phonics books, ABC bucket, Wordbooks

Consonants, vowels

Poetry

  Rhyme

  Tracking

Handouts

 

Birthdays

 

 

Colors   

 

 

Apples

 

 

 

Seasons

 

Monsters

    Rhyme, repetition, sight     vocabulary, tracking, picture clues

Birthdays, Moira’s Birthday

Happy Birthday Moon

Today is Monday,

 A Color of His Own

 

 

Apple Pie Tree, The Season of Arnold’s Apple Tree

 

A Tree is Nice

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf 

 

The Big Toe ,  In a Dark, Dark, Wood,  The Monster’s Party,

Where the Wild Things Are

Months of the year

Birthday

Color words (red, yellow, orange,

blue,purple )

Seed, tree, bark, blossom, apple

 

 

Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

 

Reality / Fantasy

Journal writing 

   Expressing ideas in writing

Journals

Upper case letter/lower case letter, punctuation, spaces, ideas, sentences

Letter writing/Morning message

     Parts of a letter,  letter identification/sounds, syllables, segmentation, punctuation, capitalization, sight words

 

Morning message

Letter, date, greeting, message, closing, signature

Phonics: consonants, vowels

Work sheets

Games

 


 

 

Grade: 1 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

November-December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

 

Phonics:

Short vowels

Consonant/vowel/consonant pattern

Explode the Code

Primary Phonics

Assorted worksheets, games, magnetic letter activities

short vowels

pattern

 

Phonetic based reading

Steck-Vaughn books

 

 

Predictable Readers

Wright Group

 

 

Story Sequencing

Story Maps

 

 

Frank Asch Author Study

Frank Asch Literature:

Bear Shadow

Moongame, Skyfire

 

Author

Illustrator

Character

 

Fairy Tales

    Fairy tale story elements

Fairy Tales:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears,

Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs

hero, villain problem, solution setting, beginning, ending

 

Journal Writing

  Writing sentences,   capitalization and punctuation

 

Letter writing

      Parts of a letter

Journals

 

 

 

Morning Message

Special person letters

abbreviation

period, comma, question mark, exclamation point

Spacing between words

Capitalization

 

Grade: 1 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

January-March

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

 

Winter study

   Problem

   Solution

   Rebus

  Alphabetical order

  Opposites

  Answer comprehension

  Questions in writing

 

The Snowy Day

Hats, Caps, Socks, and Mittens

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

Fifty Below Zero

Thomas’s Snowsuit

Time to Sleep

It’s Groundhog Day

The Busy Beaver

 

Problem

Solution

Rebus

Alphabetical order

Opposites

Compound Words

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author Study: Ezra Jack Keats

  Character, setting

  Problem , solution

  Author , illustrator

Keats’ literature:

Dreams,

 Pet Show

Whistle for Willie

Author

Illustrations

Characters

 


 

 

Homes

      Non-fiction/fiction

Literature:

This is My House

A House is a House for Me

“Homes” kit

Non-fiction/

Fiction

Shelter

 

Japan

     Non-fiction/fiction

     Character, setting, problem,      

     solution

Assorted literature:

How My Parents Learned to Eat,  Crow Boy,

Count Your Way through Japan,

A to Zen

Fiction/

Non-fiction

 

 

Phonics:

    Short vowels, digraphs,

    blends

Explore the Code

Worksheets

Games

Magnetic letter activities

Digraphs, blends

 
 
 
 

Written language:

  Journal Writing

  Letter Writing

  Story Writing:

      planning, writing, revising

      illustrating, sequencing

  capitalization and  punctuation

Monthly Journals

 

Special Person Letters

 

Winter Story

 

 

 

 

Beginning, middle, end

Planning, writing, revising

 

Grade: 1 Language Arts

Instructional Goals

April-June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

 

Health and Safety

  

Health and Safety Packet

Literature:

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,

Bread and Jam for Frances

Nutrition,

food pyramid, food groups, safe/unsafe

 

Plants and Seeds

 

Literature:

The Tiny Seed,

Growing Vegetable Soup

The Reason for a Flower

Seeds Get Around

Seed, root, stem, leaf, bud, flower, soil, air, water, sun

 

Birds

Literature:

Have You Seen Birds?

Birds’ Nests

 videos, nests,

Audubon Ark presentation

Parts of birds:

(wing, crown, eye, feathers) prey, nest, egg

 

Author study:

  Robert McCloskey      Illustration

   Setting

McCloskey literature:

Make Way for Ducklings,

Blueberries for Sal ,

One Morning in Maine  Field trip (Make Way for Ducklings tour)

 

 

Phonics:  

    Long vowels

    Vowel combinations

Explode the Code

Worksheets

Games

 

 

Written Language:

  Journal Writing

  Letter writing

  Story writing

     

 

Journal

Special Person letter

Stories

 

 

 

Grade 1                                                                                     Mathematics

Grade: 1 Math

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

 

Addison Wesley and TERC Investigations

 

 

Number Sense

   Worksheets and Materials

 

Counting

 

 

Number Order

 

 

More - Fewer

 

More than, Fewer

Sorting

 

Sort

Classifying

 

 

Graphing

 

Graph

Patterns

 

Pattern

Tallying

 

Tally

Calendar

    Days, weeks, months

Monthly Calendar

Calendar, Months, Days of the Week

Grade: 1 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

November-December

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Calendar activities (continued)

Patterns: identify, extend, create

Visualizing numbers

Number combinations

Tables

Even – Odd

Counting on

Addition and subtraction readiness

Addison Wesley and

Terc Investigations

Materials and worksheets

Ordinal numbers

 

 

 

Table, column, row

even   odd

counting on

 

in all

Grade: 1 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

January - February

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Addition: sentences

counting on

doubles

sums of 10

turn around facts

missing addends

Number lines

Manipulatives

Worksheets

Games

 

Addition sign +

Sum

Doubles

 

Turn around facts

Subtraction:

Counting back

Subtraction from 10

Number lines

Manipulatives

Worksheets

Games

Subtraction sign   -

Place Value

Ones, tens, hundreds

 

2 digit addition

 

2 digit subtraction

Base 10 Blocks

Worksheets

 

Dean Blocks

Worksheets

Dean Blocks

Ones, tens, hundreds

Geometry

Shapes 2D

 

Solids 3D

 

 

 

 

 

Symmetry

Pattern blocks

Worksheets

 

3D figures

Worksheets

 

 

 

 

Cuisenaire Rods

Pattern Blocks

Worksheets

Square, triangle, rectangle diamond, hexagon, trapezoid

 

Cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, pyramid, cone, sphere, hemisphere face, corner, side

 

Symmetry

 

 

Grade: 1 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

March-April

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Money:

Identify coins

Add coins

Coins

Worksheets

Penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar

Fractions:

Games

Worksheets

Literature

1/8, ½, 1/4

Weight

Balance scale

Manipulatives

Equal, balanced

Grade: 1 Mathematics

Instructional Goals

May - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

Time

Clocks

Clock: analogue, digital

  Tell time to the hour

Worksheets

hour

  Introduce to the half hour

Literature

half hour

  Introduce to the minute

Time stamps

minute

Measurement:

Rulers, paper clips, plants

Inch, foot, centimeter

   Linear measurement

Worksheets, literature

ruler

Estimation

Estimation Jar

Estimate

Probability

Manipulatives:

Dice, spinners

probability

 

Grade 1                                                                                               Science

 

Grade: 1 Science

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

 

Seasons:

   Cycle

   Winter, spring, summer, fall

posters

Seasons:

Summer, Fall,    Winter, Spring

 

Summer, Fall: characteristics of

 

 

Apples

   Growth

 

 

 

 

Trees

  Growth

Leaves

  Changing color

Nature Trail Hike

Observe maple tree (in each season)

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

Field trip to George Hill Orchard                   Apples activities

 

A Tree Can Be

A Tree is Nice

 

 

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf 

 

Senses

Observe

 

Apple: core, stem, fruit, blossom, seed

 

 

 

 

Seed, trunk, branch, leaves

sun, water, soil

 

Chlorophyll

 
 
 
 
 
 

Grade: 1 Science

Instructional Goals

January - March

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

 

Winter: Season

characteristics of:

    temperature, snow, ice, wind 

 

 

 

Animals in winter:

Hibernate, migrate, tracks

Beaver, bear, groundhog, birds

Life Cycle -birth, children, adults

 

Literature (See Language Arts section of curriculum quide) Winter hike

Observe melting snow

Observe winter tree

 

Audobon Ark presentation

Time to Sleep

Animal Tracks

Beaver’s Home

The Busy Beaver

It’s Groundhog Day

Snow, ice, wind, temperature, 

Thermometer

 

 

 

hibernate, lodge den, migrate

tracks

 
 

Solids and Liquids

(compare solids)

(compare liquids)

STC Kit

Property

Solid

Liquid

 

Grade: 1 Science

Instructional Goals

April - June

Resources/Tools

 

Key Vocabulary

 

Spring: Season characteristics of

    Sun, temperature, birth,

    growth

Spring hike

Observe spring tree

Spring

Bud, blossom

 

Health and Safety

     Emergency, 911,  EMTs     

     firefighters, police,   

     Ambulance

     Safe/unsafe

     Healthy habits: exercise,

     rest, germs, teeth,

 

Nutrition

     Food pyramid

    

Fire Department visit

Observe ambulance

Work sheets

Cafeteria visit

School counselor

Worksheets

 

 

Healthy snacks

Safe/unsafe, drugs, helmet, ambulance, 911, EMTs

Meeting place

Healthy habits: exercise, rest, germs, floss

food pyramid,

fruit and vegetable, meat and fish, dairy, grain, fats and oils

nutritious

healthy

 

 

Plants and Seeds

  Parts of plants

  Plants’needs

 

Mini-gardens

(soil, seeds, containers)

Plant, seed, stem, root, leaves, flower, soil, sunlight, water, air

 

Birds

Parts of birds

 

 

 

Bird beaks

Bird nests

Have You Seen Birds?

About Birds

Worksheets

Drumlin Farm program

 

Beak activity

Birds’ Nests

Build  nests

Crown, beak, feathers, wing, eggs

 

 

 

nests

 
 
 

 

 

Grade 1                                                                                    Social Studies

 

Grade: 1 Social Studies

Instructional Goals

September-October

Resources/Tools

Key Vocabulary

 

Creating a class climate

Establish Routines

Recognize classmates names

 

School Rules

Listening Rules

Q-Bear

First Grade Jitters

Chrysanthemum

Big Al

 

 

STARR: support, teamwork, attitude, respect, responsibility

Friend, kindness, polite

 
 
 
 

Christopher Columbus

 

World map introduction

  Land , water

Young Christopher Columbus

 

 World Map

 

Explorer