With our smaller class size and a twelve to one max student to teacher ratio, our dedicated staff is able to provide not only an accelerated curriculum for our students, but also more individualized instruction that benefits students who need additional help and support in an academic skill.
Our absolute commitment to daily experiences in music, art, foreign languages, and physical education, including yoga, distinguishes us from other schools, including other private schools. The indispensability of these learning opportunities is central to our educational philosophy of developing the whole child. It is our sincere belief that, along with highly responsive instructional practices in core academic subjects, cultural growth begets social and inner growth, and brings out the absolute best in each student.
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FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM
Reading
Forty different vowel sounds
Mastery of consonant and blend sounds
Vocabulary development
Reading in paragraph form
Fluency in reading
Rhythmic reading
Readers:
Blue Reader
Green Reader
Spelling
Weekly spelling lessons
Vowel Chart (see attached)
The pitch sound of vowels
Dictations
Grammar
Sentence analysis using: who, doing, what, when, where, whom
Identify parts of speech: noun, verb, and adjective
Verb conjugations: past, present
Irregular verbs
Contractions
Punctuation: capitalization, period, question mark, and possessives
Literature
Pelle’s New Suit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Writing
Cursive
Original illustrated stories
Composition Forms with five sentences
Daily journal writing
Math
Addition and subtraction patterns
Operations: +, -, x
Place Value
Word problems with proof
2, 3, and 5 multiplication tables through x 12
Time
Money
Math drills for mastery
Calendar
Cardinal and ordinal numbers
Science
Plants and their needs
Animals and their needs
Weather
Solar System
Matter
Life cycles of animals
Social Studies
Rules and laws
Where people live
Maps and globes
Our country
The flag and American symbols
Washington D.C.
Presidents Washington and Lincoln
Study of important figures (Martin Luther King, Washington, etc.)
Our changing world – past vs. present
THE VOWEL CHART
a+ e+ i+ o+ u+ Light u = (L/u) = oo
ay ey – oy-oi –
Word List:
a e i o u put push pull
ar er ir or-ore ur bush bull
aw ew ow full
au eu ou
augh
all oo oo
al (moon) (book)
old
ed ould
eigh igh ough
ild ought
ind
ing o w
