In each level of learning, Holy Family provides a structured learning environment tailored to enhance the skills of each individual student. The areas of focus for our first grade students include;
Religion
- The Trinity
- Heaven
- God’s Creation
- God’s great love for us
- The Blessed Mother
- The life of Jesus
- The Church and its members
- Rosary
Reading
- Build a solid foundation using decoding skills
- Emphasize phonemic awareness
- Long vowels
- Consonant clusters
- Vowel pairs
- Blends
- Compound words
- Prediction
- Summarizing
- Develop comprehension and fluency skills through leveled readers and Storia Online
Spelling and Vocabulary
- Identify word beginnings and endings
- Synonyms and Antonyms
- Base words
- Prefixes, suffixes, syllables
- Mastery of weekly words
Writing/Composition
- Strengthen fine motor skill development
- Form simple sentences with basic punctuation
- Formulation of information to express an idea
Mathematics
- Use numbers to 100
- Compare and order sets of objects and numbers less than 100
- Problem solving
- Equivalent amounts
- Fact Families
- Place value
- Telling time
- Simple fractions
- Money
- Solid and plane shapes
- Measuring
Science
- Living and nonliving things
- Seasons and weather
- Plants
- Animals
- Scientific method
- The sun, moon, and stars
Social Studies
- Natural resources
- Living in communities
- Traditions, holidays and celebrations
Technology
- Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.
Art
- Craft projects
- Drawing
- Painting