St. Paul Lutheran School
1415 10th Ave.
Rochelle, IL 61068
United States
ph: 815-562-6323
fax: 815-561-8074
stpaul
Miss Kenzie Peters
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
· A Christ centered environment.
· High academic expectations.
· Hands on learning.
· The Accelerated Reader program.
· Lots of opportunity to read.
· Acceptance and encouragement.
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St. Paul Lutheran School
1415 10th Ave.
Rochelle, IL 61068
United States
ph: 815-562-6323
fax: 815-561-8074
stpaul