These people visit every week to listen to first graders read out loud, play sight word bingo to help the students build their sight word vocabulary, and help the students write responses to their reading in a journals. Math is taught with the Everyday Math curriculum. It is supplemented with Math Their Way, and much hands on activities. Estimation, number sense, concepts of number operations, computation, geometry, measurement, statistics, probability, patterns, and algebra. It is a very indepth learning experience.
D'Nealian handwriting is taught.
The students also visit the computer lab once per week to explore various age appropriate computer programs. The children enjoy one hour of physical education and music per week. They also visit the library once per week for thirty minutes and have art instruction one hour per every other week. These classes are taught by specialists in their respective fields. First grade also looks at the life cycle of living things.