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Grade 1 Curriculum

 

English Language Arts

 

Reading Standards for Literature

  • Ask and answer questions and retell stories including details
  • Describe character settings and major events
  • Identify sensory words and phrases
  • Compare book types, informational/literature
  • Identify who is telling the story

 

Reading Standards for Informational Text

  • Ask and answer questions about details
  • Identify main ideas and detail
  • Make connections with text, illustrations, events, ideas
  • Clarify the meaning of words
  • Use various text features to locate information

 

Reading Standards and Foundational Skills

  • Recognize features of print including: sentence, first word, punctuation
  • Distinguish long and short vowel sounds
  • Blend sounds into words
  • Segment words into sounds
  • Use diagraphs
  • Decode one syllable words
  • Decode using long vowels patterns
  • Decode and segments two syllable words including inflectional endings
  • Recognize and read irregular spelled words
  • Read on level text with purpose, understanding, accuracy, expression

 

Writing

  • Write opinion text
  • Write informational text
  • Write narrative text

 

Speaking and Listening

  • Listen and participate in conversations with peers and adults

 

Language

  • Demonstrate correct English grammar in speaking and writing
  • Print upper and lowercase letters
  • Produce a variety of types of complete sentences

 

Mathematics

 

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
  • Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction
  • Add and subtract within 20
  • Work with addition and subtraction equations

 

Number and Operations in Base Ten

  • Extend the counting sequenced
  • Understand place value
  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract

 

Measurement and Data

  • Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length unites
  • Tell and write time
  • Represent and interpret data

 

Geometry

  • Reason with shapes and their attributes

 

Science

 

Life Science

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

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Design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

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Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

 

Earth Science

Earth’s Place in the Universe

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Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

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Make observations at different times of the year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

 

Physical Science

Waves and Their Applications in

Technologies for Information Transfer

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Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

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Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.

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Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

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Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

 

Engineering

Engineering Design

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Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

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Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

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Analyze data from tests to two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses and how each performs

 

Social Studies

 

Culture

  • Recognize and describe the elements of schools and neighborhoods
  • Identify elements of various international groups (recognize food, dress, music holidays as a cultural characteristic)
  • Explain the roles of people in a neighborhood
  • List and discuss how neighborhoods change over time

 

Citizenship

  • Discuss the roles and responsibilities of being a member of a group
  • Articulate how individual choices affect self, peers, others
  • Communicate positive feelings and ideas of self
  • Identify neighborhood and community landmarks
  • Demonstrate respect for patriotic practices and customs

 

Geography

  • Use a compass rose to locate cardinal directions
  • Identify Utah and the Unites States on a variety of maps and globes
  • Create a map showing important sites or landmarks in a school community.
  • Locate physical features and man-made features on a map or globe

 

Financial Literacy

  • Identify goods and services and explain how they are exchanged
  • Identify choices families make in terms of goods and services.
  • Explain why people save money to buy goods and services in the future

 

Religion

 

Students will be able to…

  • Sign and say The Sign of the Cross
  • Correctly recite the “Our Father”, “Hail Mary”, “Grace”, and the “Guardian Angel” prayers
  • Accurately identify and name our Pope, Pope Benedict, and our Bishop, The Most Reverend John C. Wester
  • Identify the Trinity by name
  • Explain how God loves us
  • Actively participate in school masses
  • Identify the difference between a sin, an accident, and a mistake
  • Discuss the difference between right and wrong, in consistency with a Christian lifestyle