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First Grade
First grade students
continue building
reading skills through a
balanced literacy
program including the
Houghton Mifflin’s Core
Reading/Language Arts
Program, Wright Group’s
Leveled Reading Program,
Everyday Spelling, and
the Write Source Writing
Program. Daily creative
writing is an important
part of the program, as
is instruction in the
mechanical skills of
writing. Students learn
to write basic sentences
and then move to
paragraph formulation.
They learn basic
punctuation, plurals and
possessives,
capitalization,
contractions, and parts
of speech. Vocabulary
words are introduced in
individual subject
areas. The Everyday Math
and Sadlier Oxford
Programs include
addition and subtraction
facts to 18, place
value, money, geometry,
measurements, and
problem solving. Social
studies concentrate on
families, the community,
senses, map skills, the
introduction of the map
of the United States,
continents and oceans on
the globe, and a unit on
Africa. Science classes
study reptiles,
amphibians, mammals,
African animals, fish,
birds, and the five
senses. Field trips are
taken to Tanaka Farms,
Crystal Cove State Par,
a theater production,
and a lively assembly
experience with the Wild
Wonder’s Out of Africa.
The culminating activity
of the year is the
Africa Day experience.
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