1stCurriculum

=Curriculum - 1st Grade=

Handwriting

 * Assessed on Friday

Math
> Dale Seymour activities - "sprial" format of content
 * Scott Foreman California Math text supplemented with

Science

 * Harcourt Brace - district standards-based focuns for physical, earth and life
 * Labs will take place about every three weeks (Thursday at 10:10-11:00)

Social Studies

 * McGraw-Hill - My World

Laqnguage Arts
> First four weeks focusing on vowels, vowel making and decoding > In early Oct. begin program - 5 anthologies > Take Home program - leveled books - begins soon > Literacy (LOS) - fall and spring - target levels for each trimester > Narrative, functional, informational, as well as answers to > specific comprehension questions. Steps for writing taught > (prewriting, first (rough) draft, editing, final draft, publishing). > Writing structure/format given at first conference in October. > 3 district assessments (fall, winter and spring). > challenging phonics pages, as well as in the memorization and repeated use > of phonograms (42 total). A master cassette tape will be available for those > students who have trouble learning the phonograms within the classroom setting. > Please provide your own tape and I will make a copy. > (separate graded subject begining the 2nd trimester): caps, ending marks, > plurals, s on verbs, 's, to-too-two, pronouns, nouns, verbs, ajectives. > Expectation: complete sentences with correct punctuation and grammer. > ("incentive spelling"), but misspelled words will be corrected in writing
 * **Reading**
 * **Writing**
 * **Phonics** - In reading series, but will be supplemented with more
 * **English** - Skills taught directly and practiced in daily writing
 * **Spelling** - Encourage children to spell on their own

Spelling(as a separate tested subject)

 * words are taken from phonograms, and high frequency lists (brown HW paper)