Brown Curriculum - 1st Grade
Development of a First Grade Child
It is important to remember that each child is unique and that a wide range of individual differences will be apparent with any group of children. A child’s development is organized and directed. Age characteristics are broad guidelines to help us know what may be expected from children of a certain age.
English Language Arts
Reading:
- Integrates strategies to read unknown words
- Reads fluently
- Reads sight words
- Retells a story in order
Writing:
- Hears and records sounds in words
- Correctly writes a complete sentence
- Includes interesting details in writing
- Uses capital letters correctly
- Uses correct endings punctuation
Spelling:
- Spells sight words correctly in writing
- Spells weekly words correctly on tests
Handwriting:
- Prints neatly
- Uses spaces correctly
Mathematics:
- Writes to 100 by ones
- Writes to 100 by twos
- Writes to 100 by fives
- Writes to 500 by tens
- Writes to 500 by hundreds
- Identifies and completes patterns using numbers, shape and size
- Uses pictographs to read and interpret data
- Adds
- Subtracts
- Understands place value (ones, tens)
- Tells time to the hour
- Tells time to the half hour
- Identifies 3 dimensional shapes and knows their attributes
- Tells the amount of money of coins and bills
- Measures lengths and objects using non-standard units
Science:
- Sorting by Properties
- Animal Life
- Weather
- The Sun Warms the Earth
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Social Studies:
- Study of Families and Schools
- Civics
- Economics
- History
- Geography
Specials classes:
- Art
- Music
- Physical Education
- Technology – Computer Class
- Library
Behavior Expectations:
- Respects adults
- Cooperates with peers
- Demonstrates self-control
- transitions well during the day
Work Habit Expectations:
- Works independently
- Listens attentively
- Demonstrates organization
- Completes assignments & homework
- Makes good use of time
Assessments:
- Early Learning Success Inventory
- Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA)
- Trimester Common Assessments
- Classroom Assessments