First Grade
The 1st grade curriculum at St. Charles includes both academic and religious study, including: English/language arts, math, science, social studies, and religion.
Our 1st grade teachers are Marilynn Seashore and Mary Kolasa.
1st Grade Academic Study
- Vowel (Short and Long Sound) and Consonant Recognition
- Decoding Skills Necessary to Read Words
- Blends, Onsets and Rhymes
- Story Elements
- Sentence Structure
- Punctuation, Capitalization
- Character Traits in a Story
- Fiction versus Non-Fiction
- Comprehension Skills
- Finding Main Ideas and Supporting Events
- Test-Taking Skills
- Journal, Creative Story and Narrative Writing
- Handwriting
- Nouns and Verbs
- Spelling Strategies and Spelling Study Skills
- Addition and Subtraction
- Numerical expressions
- Greater than, Less than
- Basic geometry, both flat and dimensional shapes
- Basic measurement
- Number sense
- Numbers to 100- counting in groups of 2, 5, and 10
- Telling time to the hour and half hour
- Calendar work- days of the week and months of the year
- Story problems
- Money- learning and counting coins to $1.00
- Our 5 Senses
- Living vs. Non-living
- Mass
- Pumpkin Science
- Plants- life cycle, what they give us
- Camouflage vs Adaptation
- Food Chain
- Earth Day- the 3 R’s, natural resources
- Composting
- Nocturnal animals
- Germs
- Magnets
- Penguins – life cycle, close study on one species
- Research skills – using other sources and maps
- The 4 Seasons
- Our environment- water, land, plants, animals
- Animals – groups of animals, their needs & environments
- Space- Earth’s moon, stars, astronauts, space travel, our solar system, and exploration of space
- Each child completes a Space Project including a written and creative piece to present to all the 1st graders & families
- Good Citizenship
- Our Neighborhood
- Our Presidents and other leaders
- Map skills
- Global directions (N,E,S,W)
- President’s Day, Independence Day, Earth Day, Martin Luther King JR. Day
- Schools “Then and Now”
- School workers
- Fire Safety
- Olympics (When an Olympic year)
- Image of God
- Angels and Grace
- The Blessed Trinity
- Golden Rule
- Mary and many of her apparitions
- Jesus – Christmas, Easter Triduum, Ascension, Stations of the Cross, His Miracles, the Our Father prayer.
- The 12 Apostles
- The 10 Commandments & Moses
- The 8 Beatitudes
- The Corporal Works of Mercy
- Catholic Lenten Practices
- Catholic Advent Practices
- Service projects (May Day and Valentine’s Day)
- Adam and Eve
- The story of Creation
- King David & the book of Psalms
- The Rosary
- How to pray (self-created, prayer list, certain times etc)
- Prayers: The Apostles Creed, the Our Father, Hail Mary, the Glory Be, the Fatima prayer, the Hail Holy Queen prayer, the St. Michael prayer, the Angel of God prayer, 5 or more table graces, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
- The Church/The Pope – present and past
- Daily celebrated Saints and specifically: St. Charles Borromeo, St. Therese the Little Flower, St. Bernadette, Blessed Juan Diego, St. Blaise, St. Patrick and St. Joseph
- The 7 Sacraments, with an emphasis on Baptism
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