First Grade Overview (by month)
Academics
August
God Created the World
The Blessed Trinity
Jesus is Human
Review of phonics skills learned in Kindergarten
Assessment and placement of reading skills/groups
Journal writing
Review of Math Skills learned in Kindergarten
All about Me (I am Special)
Caring for God’s Creation
September
Jesus Among the People
Jesus Teaches Us to Love
The Church Year
Blends
Short Vowels
Sentence Structure
Addition
Apples
The Flag
October
Jesus Teaches Us to Pray
The Holy Spirit
Blends
Short Vowels
Context Clues
Main Idea
Inflectional Endings
Addition and Subtraction
Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Bats
Columbus
November
The Church Serves
The Parish Family
Short vowels
Blends
Proper nouns
Verbs
Possessives
Present tense
Addition
Subtraction
Indian life
Pilgrim life
December
Advent
Using Diagrams
Compare/contrast
Blends
Using is and are
Long vowels
Contractions
Subtraction
Doubles in addition
Problem solving
Matter
Christmas Around the World
January
The Sacraments
Learning to forgive
Long Vowels
Using was and were
Using have and has
Using see and saw
Commas
Using charts
Inflectional endings
Making inferences
Fact families
Using models to solve problems
Place value
Subtraction
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Penguin Habitats
February
Saints
Lent (?)
Long Vowels
Inflectional endings
Contractions
Adjective
Cause and Effect
Predictions
Place Value
Skip counting
Money
Rainforest
Snow
Black History
Fire Prevention
Lincoln and Washington
March
Lent (?)
Stations of the Cross
Context clues
Long vowels
Drawing conclusions
Adjectives
Syllable awareness
Synonyms
Antonyms
Using –ing
Money
Time
Problems solving
Estimating
Rocks
Helpers in our School
April
Jesus and the Eucharist
The Mass
Blends
Diagraphs
Fantasy and Reality
Inflectional Endings
Subjects/Predicates
Pronouns
Varient vowels
Using I and Me
Sentence Structure
Geometry
Bar Graphs
Fractions
Insects
Plants
Magnets
May
Mary
God’s Creation
The Rosary
Summarizing
Inflectional endings
Review short/long vowels
Diagraph
Blends
Combining sentences
ABC order
Estimation
Logical Reasoning
Adding Tens and Ones
Adding Money
Subtracting Tens and Ones
Subtracting Money
Measurement
Frogs
Toads
Ongoing Through out the Year
Genre
Comprehension
Predictions
Handwriting
Partner reading
Plot
Author studies
Main idea
Map skills
Context clues
Character
Cause/effect
Some of the Special Events/Trips/Service Projects
Apple Day
Fall Fun Day
Columbus Ships
Thanksgiving Feast
Theater
Leprechaun Traps
Lenten Packets
Hats for the Homeless
100th Day of School Projects
Party for the Rising First Graders
