Gloria Evans, Teacher
FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM
PHONICS:
Short a, double final consonants ck, short I, blends with r, short e, blend with s. Short u. Final Blends. Students learn short and long vowel sounds, digraphs, diphthongs, rhyming words.
READING:
Main idea, recognizing fact, reality and fantasy, sequencing, cause and effect, story elements, predicting, drawing conclusions, recognizing facts vs. opinions, analyze characters, and read maps.
ENGLISH:
Recognize complete and incomplete sentences, punctuation, possessives, contractions, inflectional endings, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and sentence structure.
SCIENCE:
Physical Science; grouping objects, sound, light, heat, movement; Earth Science; earth, soil, weather, sky; Life Science, plants animals and their habitats.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Families, neighborhoods, communities, jobs, needs, map skills, geography, citizenship and natural resources.
MATH:
Write and identify numbers 1 to 100, add and subtract to 20, place value, count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s, greater than, less than, between, before and after, money, time to the hour and half hour, patterns, geometrical shapes, fraction 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and subtract two-digit numbers without regrouping.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Grammar (complete sentences) and writing (informative sentences that describe poetry, thank you notes and description).
SPELLING:
Learn to spell vowel patterns, identify properly and improperly spelled words, write sentences using spelling words, short a, e, i, o. u. vowels).
SECOND GRADE CURRICULUM
READING:
Increase vocabulary, develop fluency and expression in oral reading, develop comprehension skills, character setting, plot, inference, informational text, homophone, and consonant.
PHONICS:
Short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, R-controlled vowels (ie., ar, er, ir, or, ur synonyms, antonyms and homonyms).
Language Arts:
Improve writing skills, use proper punctuation, and identify parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs). Grammar (plural and proper nouns), and writing (informational paragraph, instructions).
MATH:
Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s forwards and backwards, compare and order whole numbers, write numbers to 100 in standard and word forms, compare money amounts, compare and order halves, thirds and fourths using bar model.
SCIENCE:
Life Science (parts of a plant and their functions, characteristic of animal groups, dinosaurs and fossils) Earth Science (land forms, weather, the solar system) Physical Science (solids, liquids, gases, gravity, magnets, light sources).
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Compare different kinds of communities, (urban, rural suburban), identify needs and wants, goods and services, use a compass rose, know directions, and find states and oceans on a map, and study famous people in our country’s history.
SPELLING:
Learn to spell vowel patterns, identify properly and improperly spelled words, write sentences using spelling words, and verbs in the present.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION:
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran School exists to bring children to know Jesus Christ through (1) His Creation, (2) His Son, Jesus Christ and (3) His Holy Word, through the Bible. Biblical stories are taught that stress that Jesus wants us to be a sharing, loving, caring and forgiving community of Christians.
Our Christian Education classes are based on the teachings and practices from the Holy Bible. We believe in God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of Christian education is to help direct the process of human development towards God’s objective for man; 2 Timothy 3:17 King James Version (KJV) 17 “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”