Courses

A comprehensive and effective first grade language arts curriculum will help children accomplish their:
• Increase vocabulary as they blend consonant sounds, vowel and consonant digraphs, and more.
• Read simple stories fluently and independently.
• Retell the main idea of a story and answer questions about the text.
• Identify parts of a story or book.
• Know the names and sounds of all the consonants and vowels.
• Become an independent reader, improve their phonics, phonemic awareness, and comprehension
• Grammar skills including capitalization and punctuation
• Handwriting skills, writing their name as well as simple words and sentences
• Math skills such as adding and subtracting single digit or small numbers, greater than and less than concepts, identifying patterns and shapes
• How to make scientific observations and record these in writing, pictures and/or graphs.
• Symbols that represent the U.S.
• Important figures and events in U.S. history
• The difference between living and non-living things
• The importance of the sun in relation to Earth and living things