They learn about consonant blends, word endings, contractions, compound words, and other strategies to help them sound-out words. Comprehension skills such as identifying characters, main idea of a story, story setting, and sequencing events are emphasized to help students learn to read for understanding. Students will practice spelling the words they are learning to read. They return for a busy afternoon schedule. Our math program called, Everyday Math , emphasizes hands-on learning.
Students see a variety of math materials to learn concepts introduced.
We begin the year with lots of rounting, numeral recognition, patterning, estimating and graphing experiences. As students progress through the year, they will work on the basic addition and subtraction facts to 10 and place value skills, as well as understanding numbers to 100. They will count money combinations of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, along with learning to tell time on the hour and half hour. Our first graders attend gym four days a week, music three times, and they visit the art specialist once a week. You can look for wonderful first grade art creations hanging in our hallway and classrooms.