Grade 1

Class Subjects

A. LANGUAGE ARTS

The Daily 5 will be use daily, which encourages students to become independent learners. Children become responsible for their learning by choosing which of the five Daily 5 activates they would like to work on, and it what order. The five activities are as follows: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, and Word Work. The philosophy of the Daily 5 is to have children build their stamina through correct muscle memory,insuring literacy success for all.

Reading
●For enjoyment and to gather information
●Individual, group, and budding reading
●Emphasis on reading skills: phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, prediction and word-attack

Writing
●For creativity and communication
● Use the of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing program:
Ideas, word choice, organization, conventions, voice, sentence fluency, presentation

Listening and Speaking
●Sharing information, presenting drama, poetry, and oral reports, listening to others, gaining information, and following directions

B. MATHEMATICS

●Skills will be acquired in the following areas: Computation, number concepts, measurement, graphing, geometry, and fractions
●Skills are acquired through “hands-on” exploration, teacher demonstration, practice, games, and drill
●Focus is given to problem solving and application as well as accuracy in math facts.

C. SOCIAL STUDIES

●Main Idea: the interaction between people, places, and the environment
●Themes: neighborhoods and communities, geography, character education, celebrations of people around the world.
●Learner Profile: teaching students about the 10 core traits of the IB program: caring, thinkers, communicators, knowledgeable, inquirers, balanced, prncipled, open-minded, reflective, and risk-takers. Students learn that by obtaining these traits they will be able to “make decisions that benefit themselves, their community, and the world”

D. SCIENCE

●Themes:using 5 senses, magnetism, factories and what is a machine, weather and seasons, soil composition, composting, rocks, insect parts, life-cycle, parts of plant, plant life-cycle, and living, non- living, and once living