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First Grade Curriculum

Growing With Mathematics:   The program ensures that understanding and skills are developed simultaneously.  Growing with Mathematics equips students with a variety of thinking strategies they can use to solve problems effectively and confidently. It supports NCTM Standards and NAEYC guidelines. The first grade topics include patterns, recording data, subtraction, measuring length, capacity, weight and time, geometry, addition, multiplication and division. Manipulatives and literature books are a  large part of the program.

Reading-  Our students are taught reading  on their instructional level using the Rigby Series shown above.  The books are leveled beginning in Kindergarten through third grade.  Placement in a level depends on the assessment of your child at the start of the year and then throughout the year through running records which assess word attack and comprehension. Strategies and skills are taught in small groups of 4-6 students. Movement into the next level happens as each child progresses.  Whole group reading is taught with our new series Treasures instituted in 2006. Writing- Writing goes hand in hand with our reading program.  Students  create simple sentences and  then  learn to  put those sentences together to create a story. Writing prompts are given district wide and we use the Empowering Writers Program to support our activities.