First Grade

Language Arts

Objectives/Outcomes

Students continue to love reading in first grade.  They engage in a variety of activities and lessons that reinforce phonics skills, blending letters, and identifying special sounds. They read words, sentences, and stories to grow comprehension skills while developing critical thinking ability.  They review proper letter formation and cursive writing is developed.  Sentence writing, story writing, and journal are practiced.

Projects

Students will illustrate, label, and act out stories; do group poem and poster board projects, and an "I am special" poster.

Arithmetic

Objectives/Outcomes

In math, students develop an understanding of place value while practicing addition and subtraction.  They will learn measurement, geometry, time, and money. First-graders also learn how to write equations, read graphs, and how to solve word problems.

Projects

Students will do baking projects (measurement), group graphs, play Dominos, build with Unifex Cubes, do group graphs and projects involving a clock. 

Social Studies

Objectives/Outcomes

Students will study geography, history, American history, government, economics, culture, landmarks, sorting and sequencing, visual analysis, and literature at an age-appropriate level for first-graders. 

Projects

Building a Teepee, Thanksgiving play, a report on our state, food tasting, understanding maps, and building forts are all activities that provide hands-on learning.

Science

Objectives/Outcomes

Taught through a biblical worldview, students learn how to do science, not just about it.  Their scientific understanding grows while utilizing experiential, hands-on learning through scientific inquiry investigations and the process of engineering design.  

Projects

Our science projects include animal habitats, baking, observing the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly, making marshmallow insects, magnets, and sink or float.

Bible

Objectives/Outcomes

Students will learn about God's faithfulness, guidance, care, and the strength He gives through the lives of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, Solomon, Jesus, Peter, and Paul.  They memorize scripture and participate in classroom prayer and worship. 

Projects

Students create a poster board showing what Heaven looks like to them (of course Heaven has Canes!)