First Grade
Bible & Spiritural Life
- Memorize Scripture weekly
- Study people and events of the Bible daily
- Apply spiritual and practical truths from God’s Word
- Discover the joy of worship & prayer in the classroom and at school-wide chapel service
Language Arts
- Learn and practice reading strategies to become proficient readers
- Develop thinking skills by predicting, reflecting on and evaluating literature
- Implement the writing process, focusing on ideas and organization
- Use capital letters and end punctuation in writing
Math
- Add to and subtract from 20 using number sense strategies
- Understand place value and numbers through 120
- Solve word problems using learned concepts
- Explore graphing, time, money, geometry, fractions, and probability concepts
Science
- Investigate concepts in physical, life, chemical, and earth science with hands-on activities
- Predict, observe and record using scientific method
- Participate in environmental learning in NHCA butterfly garden and local nature center
- Integrate Christian worldview
Social Studies
- Understand how people and events shape history
- Discover how location affects how people live, while learning map skills
- Learn how economics affects choices and basic economic concepts
- Identify symbols of our country and good citizenship habits
Special Projects/Trips
- History Then and Now Project
- Christmas Tradition Sharing
- Reading Buddies with the fourth graders
- Class Readers Theater
- First Grade Authors
- Monthly school-wide TEAM events