St. Paul Lutheran   School

 First Grade Topics

Religion

· May know God, especially His seeking and forgiving love in Christ

· May respond in faith and grow into Christian maturity

· See themselves and others as the reconciled, redeemed children of God and individual members of Christ’s body, the church

· Live happily in peace with God, themselves and their fellow human beings

· Express their joy in worship of God and in loving service to others

· Value all of God’s creative work in His world and the church

· Witness openly of Christ as the Savior of all people

· Participate actively in God’s mission to the church and the world

· Live in Christian hope with blessed assurance of eternal life in heaven through Christ Jesus, our Lord

Language Arts

· Be able to recognize and distinguish letters and words from pictures

· Write all letters of the alphabet both upper case and lower case

· Orally blend word parts into words

· Break a word into phonemes or sentence into individual words

· Decode phonemes into recognizable words and associate with those words

· Write a word or sentence when it is given orally

· Write words or sentences from visual or mental cues

· Encode words by determining letters representing phonemes

· Blend phonemes into a word

· Develop a love for reading and will read for pleasure

Math

· Analyze and solve problems using skills and strategies

· Relate subtraction and addition

· Record and show data in different ways

· Read and make a picture graph

· Read and make a bar graph

· Read and write numbers up to 100

· Count by twos, fives and tens

· Count and order numbers

· Add two or three numbers with sums through 10

· Add and subtract numbers up to 20

· Add two or three numbers with sums to 20

· Measure lengths in customary and metric units

· Order events and compare times

· Read and write time to the hour and half hour using a clock

· Use a calendar

Science

· Understand that trees have similar parts such as roots, leaves (needles), a trunk and branches

· Understand that trees belong to the group of living things called plants.  Plants have may parts in common and each part has a specific function enabling the plant to grow and survive

· Understand that plants serve many useful purposes and provide many useful things

· Understand that people change as they grow.

· Understand that animals grow and change in a variety of ways

· Understand that nonliving things, such as the earth, are also changing

· Understand that we can hear sounds and see things because sound travels through the parts of the ear and light travels through parts of the eye

· Understand that vibrating objects make sound and sounds travel from their source in all directions through solids, liquids and gases

· Understand that when light shines on an object, the light can be absorbed, bent or refracted or it can pass through the object

· Understand factors such as wind, air temperature and precipitation can be used to describe weather conditions

· Understand that air, wind and sunlight interact constantly, producing the water cycle that affects cloud formation and weather

· Understand that weather information is used to make decisions every day

Social Studies

· Understand that people are alike and different and that therefore each person is unique

· Understand that all people have many kinds of feelings

· Understand that all people are part of a family

· Understand that people work at home and away from home to meet their needs and wants

· Understand that families have many places that are important to them

· Understand that stories are an important part of our heritage

What can my child expect at St. Paul?

· A Christ centered environment.

· High academic expectations.

· Hands on learning.

· The Accelerated Reader program.

· Lots of opportunity to read.

· Acceptance and encouragement.