Lower School

Program Guide 2006-2007

First Grade

Reading:

Basal Reading stories; comprehension and vocabulary; Scholastic Guided Reading; independent reading; oral reading; speaking; poetry; sight words; writing; reading and technology - Open Book Reading Program

Spelling:

weekly activities and tests

Phonics:

initial, medial and final consonants; short and long vowels; compounds; “le” words; hard and soft “c”, “g” blends: “y” and a vowel; diagraphs; r-controlled vowels; contractions, endings, suffixes; diagraphs; vowel pairs; vowel diagraphs and dipthongs; prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

Writing:

punctuation, spelling, complete sentences; capitalization; typing

Handwriting:

Zaner-Bloser; making words

Grammar:

naming words, action words, describing words; creative writing

Math:

addition - basic facts, counting up; subtraction - basic facts; fact families, solid shapes, plane shapes; money; patterns; location and movement; calendar; measuring; building numbers - counting on; time; fractions - halves and wholes, equal parts

Social Studies:

All About Me; Thanksgiving; Christmas symbols; US symbols; fairy tales

Science:

Art, Foreign Language, Guidance/Counseling, Library, Music, Physical Education, Science Lab, and Technology