Here is what your First Graders will learn about this year:

Listening and Speaking

Reading-print awareness, phonemic awareness, decoding/encoding, oral reading and fluency, comprehension, story elements, poetry

Writing-narrative, informative/explanatory and persuasive writing, handwriting, spelling, parts of speech, sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation

History: World Geography (spatial sense, geographical features), Early World Civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, History of World Religions), Modern Civilization and Culture (Mexico), American History: Early Explorers and Settlers, Colonization, American Revolution, Exploration West, American Symbols and Figures

Visual Art:  Art from Long Ago, Elements (color, line, shape and texture), Portraits

Music:  Elements of Music, Musical Terms and Concepts, Jazz, Ballet, Traditional American plus OTA Music Perfomance Labs: Learning to Read Music and Play Piano in the Kiwanis Music Lab; Orchestra; Choir.

Math:  Patterns and Classification, Number Sense, Money, Computation, Solving Problems and Equations, Measurement, Geometry plus OTA Math & Science Olympics! Robotics: Programming, Applied Mathematics, Problem-Solving… and more.

Science:  Living Things and their Environment, Habitats, Oceans and Undersea Life, Environmental Change, Animal Classifications, Human Body, Germs, Diseases and Preventing Illness, Matter, Introduction to Electricity, Astronomy, The Earth, Science Biographies.