First Grade Curriculum Overview

• History

The Story of the World, Vol. 1-Ancient History: 5000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

• Geography

Maps: continents, oceans, NSEW

Weather

• Math

Saxon Math: 1  (Click to view Scope & Sequence)

• Memory

Sound off for each biome

Songs for each biome

Bible memory verses

• Bible

ASCI—Old Testament: Heroes

Birth and life of Jesus

• Literature

BJU Press reading curriculum

Novels: Ramona the Pest, Henry and the Clubhouse, Little House in the Big Woods, Biography of Lewis and Clark, The Boxcar Children, Mr.Popper's Penguins, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Pippi Longstocking, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web.  Not all are done every year.

Literature elements: Beginning/middle/end, character, setting, story map

• Writing

Shurley Grammar

Writer's Workshop:  fiction writing, report writing, poetry writing

• Science

Ocean: fish characteristics, water cycle, miscellaneous animals, plants

Forest: trees, mammals (carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous; migrate, hibernate, resist by hunting or storing)

Polar regions:  bird characteristics, properties of water, miscellaneous animals

Desert:  reptile characteristics, weather

Rain forest: insect characteristics; raising ladybugs, butterflies and ants

• Music

Distinguish between high/low and fast/slow. Identify whole, half, quarter and eighth notes and rests. Recognize instruments that play melody or keep a beat. Recall biographical information on Rimsky-Korsokov and Haydn.