Curriculum

North Carolina has adopted the National Common Core and Essiential Standards.  Check out this video (also in spanish) for more clarification. We implimented these standards last year, and will continue to use them this year in our instruction. 

Language Arts:
Fountas and Pinnell program

• Hands on games and activities to learn sounds, words, and spellings
• explicit, multisensory, systematic
• Learn strategies that good readers use
• Practice with stories at their level and harder stories which are read aloud and discussed.

Comprehension Strategies

• Students are taught a variety of strategies to help them understand what they're reading.
• We teach these during guided reading.
• Science and social studies are integrated into reading instruction.
• They apply these strategies to reading in groups and on their own during Just Right Book time.

Writing

• Students will write informational, narrative, and persuasive pieces.
• Students write words in complete sentences.
• We write with correct punctuation and capitalization.
• Students are expected to write at least 6 sentences about a topic.
• We use describing and action words.
• When children are writing stories we do not spell words for them. They learn to spell through sounding words out to the best of their ability. If we spelled each word for them, it would hinder their ability to compose a piece of writing. We will edit some pieces of writing. Then spelling errors will be corrected.

Word Wall Words

• Five words given each week.
• Words will be posted on the word wall and children will be taught to use them to help them spell new words.
• We expect to see first grade words used correctly in their writing

Math:

Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Addition and subtraction story problems within 20
• Determine unknown whole number in addition and subtraction sentences
• Add and subtract within 20 fluently
• Use various strategies for solving story problems

Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
• Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120 (counting, reading, and writing)
• Understand place value and base 10
• Able to add and subtract multiples of 10 between 10-90

Measurement and Data
• Compare length of three objects
• Measure objects with non-standard units without gaps and overlaps
• Tell time to hour and half hour with analog and digital clocks
• Organize, represent, and interpret data

Geometry
• Identifying, drawing, and describing two dimensional and three dimensional shapes
• Divide circles and rectangles in two and four equal shares using words like halves,
fourths, quarters, etc.