First Grade

English Language Arts (ELA) – Read and understand grade-level texts for fun and  information; write for a different purposes and audiences.  

Math – Work with whole numbers and place value, including grouping numbers into  tens and ones; add and subtract through twenty.  

Science – Learn about sound and light, plants, animals, and objects in the sky.  

Computer Science – Recognize a sequence of events that take place in a story.  Educational Technology – Explore websites as a class with pictures of animals, foods,  and colors to reinforce vocabulary.  

Financial Education – Discuss the purpose and use of piggy banks.  

Health and Physical Education – Learn about physical education and basic  structures and functions of body systems, develop social skills, refine locomotor and  manipulative skills.  

Social Studies – Explore the ways families live 

The Arts – Develop focus and concentration; explore pitch and melody; understand story structure; explore art materials and techniques.