Language Arts / Communications Skills The students will:
-read and comprehend text designed for first grade
-read to follow directions, answer questions, and locate details
-expand sight vocabulary
-continue to recognize and high frequency words (91 total)
-use basic punctuation and capitalization
-use phonics skills to sound out blends; count syllables in a word; change sounds to produce new words
-write and recognize sentences that ask
-write three or more sentences on the same topic
-spell most sight words correctly
-use logical phonetic spelling of unfamiliar words
-improve handwriting by forming letters correctly and using appropriate spacing between letters and words
-substitute beginning and final sounds to create new words
Math The students will:
-use ordinal numbers first through tenth
-use calendar language appropriately, e.g. seasons and months of the year today, yesterday, tomorrow, next week, last month
-use efficient strategies to count the number of objects in a set
-estimate quantities fewer than or equal to 100
-create, model, and solve problems that use fair shares between two or three
-connect the model, number word, and number using a variety of representations
-read and write numbers
-build understand of place value (ones, tens)
-recognize equivalence in sets and numbers 1-99
-continue to use Venn diagrams to illustrate similarities and differences in two sets
-describe events as certain impossible, more likely or less likely to occur
-collect, organize, describe and display data using line plots
-continue to identify, build, and name cylinders, cones rectangular prisms, squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, and hexagons
-develop fluency with single digit addition and corresponding
differences using strategies such as modeling, composing quantities,
using doubles, and making tens
-create, model, and solve problems that use addition, subtraction, and fair shares
-tell time to the hour and half-hour
-solve problems involving applications of time (clock and calendar)
-develop strategies to estimate size
-solve problems involving spatial visualization
-describe events as certain, more likely, or less likely to occur
-collect, organize describe, and display data using line plots and tallies
-create and extend patterns, identify the pattern unit, and translate into other forms
-sort and classify objects by two attributes
Science
-exhibit
behaviors that show support for conservation, preservation, and wise
use of natural resources. We will celebrate Earth Day and learn
how to reduce, reuse, and recycle
-study about plants
-determine the needs of plants
-identify environments that support the needs of North Carolina plants and animals
-distinguish the size and shape of rocks, boulders, grains of sand and smaller materials
-classify rocks and other earth materials according to their properties
-observe the ways in which things move
-describe motion of objects by tracing and measuring movement over time
-complete unit on embryology, spring, and animals
Social Studies -study about our county, state, and country
-recognize that members of the community are affected by changes in the community that occur over time
-use geographic terminology and tools to create representations of the
earth’s physical and human features through simple maps, models,
and pictures
-demonstrate responsibility for the care and management of the environment within the school and community
-use the computer and other technological tools to gather, organize, and display data
Technology
-discuss ownership of computer - created work of others
-recognize the characteristics of multimedia
-identify and discuss multimedia terms/concepts
-recognize and discuss responsible use of multimedia resources
-recognize, discuss, and cite various types of resources as a class
-identify, discuss, and use menu/tool bar functions in word processing applications
-use multimedia software to illustrate words/phrases/concepts
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