First+Grade+Curriculum

Road Map of the First Grade Curriculum

__**First Trimester:**__

__**Writing:**__ Content, Organization, & Style Unit 1 - Personal Narrative (Small Moment) Conventions Unit 2 - Writing for Readers

__**Reading:**__ Comprehension
 * Schema
 * Summary

__**Mathematics:**__ Whole Number Relations Addition and Subtraction Geometric Attributes Concepts of Measurement Processes

__**Science:**__ gives reasonable explanation using evidence, describes the effect of weather, and describes weather tools.
 * Weather**
 * Content:** Describes the Weather
 * Process:** Conducts and reports simple investigations,

__**Social Studies:**__ __**Second Trimester:**__
 * Families in our Community**

__**Writing:**__ Unit 3 - Revision Unit 4 - Author’s Craft Unit 5 - Nonfiction (How to, All about) Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar taught across the year.
 * Content, Organization, & Style**
 * Conventions**

__**Reading:**__
 * Comprehension**
 * Questioning
 * Predict/Infer
 * Determine Importance

__**Mathematics:**__
 * Addition and Subtraction**
 * Data, Statistics, and Probability**
 * Concepts of Measurement**
 * Processes**

__**Science:**__ Changes
 * Content:** Describes the properties of common materials, describes water changing between solid and liquid.
 * Process:** Conducts and reports simple investigations

__**Social Studies:**__ Families in Communities

__**Third Trimester**__:

__**Writing:**__ Unit 6 - Poetry Unit 7 - Personal Choice Writing Spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar taught across the year.
 * Content, Organization, & Style**
 * Conventions**

__**Reading:**__


 * Comprehension**
 * 1) Sensory Images
 * 2) Synthesis

__**Mathematics:**__
 * Addition and Subtraction**
 * Data, Statistics, and Probability**
 * Concepts of Measurement**
 * Processes**

__**Science:**__
 * The Life Cycle of the Butterfly**
 * Content:** Shows how living things are made of small parts, observes and describes life cycle of a butterfly, shows how butterflies need certain things to live.
 * Process:** Conducts and reports simple investigations, gives a reasonable explanation using evidence.