Rainbow Montessori Child Development Center

1st Grade Curriculum

It is understood that children will continue to build on the standards achieved in the previous year. Children will continue to use hands on materials to further strengthen their skills in all the areas.

Mathematics

• Number Sense
• Numbers up to 100
• Complete understanding of the numbers up to 100
• Will be able to figure out less than and greater than and equals to
• Represent equivalent forms of the same number using snake game and moving on to abstraction
• Ordinal and cardinal numbers
• Introduction to Roman numerals
• Value of coins and different combinations of coins that equal the same value
• Use of operations
• Memorization of the addition facts - using finger charts and moving on to memorization
• Memorization of the subtraction facts - using finger charts
• Use of inverse relationship of addition and subtraction
• Skip counting - use bead chains to understand the concept
• Adding four digit numbers with golden bead, stamp game and bead frame leading into abstraction
• Subtracting four digit numbers with golden bead, stamp game and bead frame leading into abstraction
• Addition and subtraction with exchanges
• Introduction to multiplication using multiplication boards
• Word problems
• Estimation Strategies Make reasonable estimates when comparing larger and smaller numbers
• Algebra and Functions

Students will use number sentences from problem situations and express relationship and knows the symbols like: +, -, x etc.

Measurement and Geometry

• Compare weight, length and volume
• Tell time to the 5 minutes
• Identification of the geometric figures, their attributes through geometric solids, geometric cabinet and constructive triangles
• Give and follow directions about location
• Introduction to line, angle and plane figures

Fractions and Application

• Able to identify and exchange money
• Understanding of whole and its parts

Statistics Data Analysis and Probability

• Learning repeating patterns like: rhythmic, numeric, color and shape
• Sort objects and data by common attributes and be able to describe
• Organize, represent and compare data through graphs like: bar graph, tally charts, and picture graphs

Mathematical Reasoning

• Students practice setting up the problems, solving them with the materials and sketch them.
• Students make connections within presentations and make logical predictions

Language

• Reading
• Word Analysis

Word analysis, fluency and systematic vocabulary development

• Phonemic Awareness
• One syllable words
• Short and long vowels
• Consonant digraphs and vowel digraphs
• Series of rhyming words
• Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning and ending sounds
• Can count the syllable in the words

Children use movable alphabet to build words for the set of objects or pictures provided

• Decoding and Word Recognition
• High frequency (sight words) are introduced
• Definitions and rules are introduced
• Concepts of opposites, singular and plural, gender
• Compound words
• Word attack skills

Students use set of cards at their own pace to develop the understanding

• Vocabulary and Concept Development
• Students are able to describe common objects and events in both general and specific language
• Identify main ideas/ characters
• Recall sequence / Information
• Draw Conclusions
• Summarize
• Identify styles: poetry, fairy tale, fiction, non-fiction
• Synonyms, Homonyms, Antonyms
• Oral expression
• Listen and follow directions
• Ask/ Answer questions on topic
• Use complete sentences
• Speak audibly
• Tell short stories
• Categorize things in group
• Listen to stories read aloud / be able to answer questions on content / sequence/ characters / moral
• Reading Comprehension
• Identify text that uses sequence or other logical order
• Comprehension and Analysis
• Respond to who, what, when, where, why and how questions
• Follow up two or more written instructions
• Use context to find meanings
• Confirm predictions
• Relate prior knowledge
• Retell the main ideas
• Literary Response and Analysis
• Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and characters in a story as well as story?s beginning, middle and ending
• Describe the roles of the authors and illustrators
• Recollect, talk and write about books read throughout the year
• Writing
• Selection of a focus and usage of descriptive words
• Print legibly and space the letters to make meaningful sentences
• Write narratives, describe an experience, and write brief expository descriptions
• Written and oral English Language Conventions
• Write and speak in complete sentences
• Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns
• Use of contractions
• Types of sentences
• Punctuation marks like: period, exclamation and question
• Capitalization: beginning of the sentence, word I, names of the people and places
• Spells three and four letter words along with basic sight words correctly
• Recognize sentence parts: noun/verb
• Simple dictation
• Paragraph composition
• Printing
• Dates letters
• Listening and Speaking
• Listen attentively, and ask appropriate questions
• Be able to follow two to three step directions
• Stay on topic
• Recite short poems
• Retell a story

History and Social Sciences

Students are presented the cosmic view of the Universe. The understanding is developed by using story techniques. The students explore and examine the details of acceptable behavior in society.

• Students describe the rights and individual responsibilities
• This concept is introduced through classroom rules and voting

Problem solving techniques

• People in Community
• Meaning of Citizenship
• History through Holidays
• Time line of history is shared
• Map of the World, maps and the study of the continents, celebrations from different cultures, physical features of the Continents/Countries of North America are studied in depth
• Earthquakes: causes/safety

Science

Physical Sciences:

• Understanding of matter, energy, etc.

Botany and Zoology:

• Understanding of basic classification
• Parts of human body as well as parts of vertebrates
• Parts of plant, leaf, seed, fruit, flower etc. and the functions, life cycles

Earth Science:

• Weather
• Formation of earth
• Planets
• Parts of Volcano

Investigation and Experimentation:

• Simple investigative experiments

Physical Education

• Students will be competent in many movement activities
• Students will understand how and why one moves in a variety of situations and will use this information to enhance the skills
• Students will learn to demonstrate responsibility while participating in movement activities. Group games will be introduced and the lessons in sportsmanship will be taught

Art

• Basic skills with crayons, paints, scissors, pasting, cutting
• Patterns, color, texture, media
• Introduction to artists