First Grade

While in Art, your student will be learning these standards in our classrooms:

• Develop art skills using a variety of media such as drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, mixed media, or textile/fiberwork
• Develop an awareness and appreciation of many artists and cultures from historical and aesthetic perspectives
• Recognize and uses a variety of lines, shapes, textures, and colors in his/her own work
• Recognize the primary and secondary colors and mixes colors to meet creative needs
• Demonstrate the concept of space (empty, full) through their own artwork
• Name and use geometric shapes

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Express and support ideas through writing 
• Apply word solving strategies while reading
• Read and comprehend literature and informational text
• Use conventions in their writing

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Respect and understand personal safety, peers safety, and classroom safety
• Understand growth and development
• Understand and practice disease control and prevention
• Practice Interpersonal skills

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of numbers by ordering, reading, writing, comparing, and representing numbers
• Demonstrate and explain strategies to solve real world problems and mathematical equations
• Demonstrate understanding of money
• Demonstrate understanding of time
• Demonstrate number sense

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to: 

• Sing a variety of songs tunefully
• Move and perform patterns within a steady beat
• Echo/read/perform rhythm patterns using quarter and eighths notes and quarter rests
• Sing and read so-la-mi patterns
• Understand that music is written down
• Improvise 
• Value and enjoy music
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Apply reading skills to meet individual needs
• Select and use appropriate technology for educational and personal goals
• Analyze information in electronic and print media
• Use a variety of productivity tools to communicate
• Follow a systemic research process
• Recognize ethical practice in a global society

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing these ability to:

• Know the benefits of physical activity
• Contribute to a team effort
• Play by the rules
• Demonstrate locomotor movements: start, stop, walk, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop
• Demonstrate manipulation skills: catch, throw, pass, shoot, striking
• Move in various directions: forward, backward, sideways
• Move at varying speeds: slow, fast, increasing,decreasing
• Develop a positive self-image and attitude
• Practice good sportsmanship in success and failure
• Listen and follow directions

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning these about these topics:

• Nature of Science and Engineering/Magnets
• Weather
• Collecting and Examining Life
• Motion

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning these about these topics:

• Citizenship: Rules and Elections/Earth Day
• Economics: Needs and Wants/Good and Services
• Geography: Our Earth
• History: Life Past and Present/Famous People
• The US Constitution: What is the Constitution?