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Grades 1- 8

Grade 1

First Grade Highlights and Expectations:

  • Become more loving Christians by following Jesus' example and knowing first grade prayers.
  • Focus on God's love, the life and teachings of Jesus, belonging to the Church, traditional common prayers, and the rosary.
  • First graders learn about complete metamorphosis by observing the Painted Lady Caterpillars emerge into Butterflies.  We witness and experience the birth of an animal as we utilize our classroom incubator to learn about the Embryology of a chick. First Grade participates in the activities provided by the Cook County Farm Bureau.  We also adopt a dairy cow through the St. Louis Dairy Council and communicate with our local farmer through email and get monthly updates and pictures of our calf.
  • Demonstrate phonological  and phonemic awareness  and  recognize  high frequency words.  
  • Use word analysis to comprehend selection  and apply reading strategies  to improve understanding and fluency.
  • Identify story elements, use context clues, comprehend the main idea, make predictions, and distinguish between fact and fantasy.
  • Read age appropriate materials with fluency and be able to self-appraise  and self-correct while reading.
  • Use writing to communicate and apply grammar and mechanics including capitalization, complete sentences, and basic punctuation.
  • Focus on number  and order  sense, addition  and subtraction  concepts and strategies with facts to 12, place value and patterns, recognize geometrical shapes in the world around, calculate time to the hour and half-hour, and solve simple word problems.
  • Introduced to adding two-digit  numbers with and without regrouping.
  • Understand  concepts  of   life science  and  earth  science  through  reading, predicting, organizing, questioning, and explaining.
  • Develop an awareness of people around them, recognize important people and special events, understand maps and mapping terms.

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