1st - 2nd Grade Curriculum

The 1st-2nd Grade curriculum provides for a nurturing, child-centered environment, with a personalized, challenging, yet comfortable program. Our approach is to continue to build upon each child's skills by providing them with a variety of stimulating hands-on materials, and by using  thematic learning units which build upon

each child's interests and life experiences. We incorporate a multi-sensory teaching approach within the framework of our curriculum, which focuses on four basic areas of development and achievement: Cognitive, Affective, Social and Physical. The goals in each area are outlined below:

Cognitive Goals

Language Arts

The Language Arts program encompasses Oral Language, Reading, and Writing skills:  

Oral Language: 

Children will develop confidence and demonstrate skill development in speaking skills by:

        - daily oral sharing opportunities such as show and tell

        - class plays and productions

        - simple dramatizations of stories within reading groups

        - retelling of incidents and events in complete thoughts

        - clear communication in presentation to the class

        - presentations of "research" or reports in a logical manner

        - clear communication of directions in sequential order.

Children will develop competent skills in listening behaviors such as:

        - the ability to follow simple and more complex directions

        - phonemic awareness by repetition of spoken words

        - development of auditory processing skills

Reading:  

Children will develop vocabulary skills to increase reading comprehension by:

        - giving attention to words

        - learning new vocabulary from reading selections

        - enriching understanding of vocabulary 

Children will develop the various comprehension skills needed to become a better reader through demonstrating competency in:

        - following directions

        - recalling details

        - drawing conclusions

        - sequencing skills

        - using context clues

Children will demonstrate appropriate specific sound-symbols skills, specific word auditory skills, and recall skills 

Children will demonstrate appropriate visual letter and word skills and apply them to reading

Writing:  

Children will be able to:

        -  express in written form a complete thought

        - utilize correct letter formation 

        - show phonemic awareness 

        - demonstrate knowledge of word structure analysis

Mathematics

Children will demonstrate mastery of the following concepts and skills:

        - counting by memory sequentially, by fives and by tens

        - matching number symbols to appropriate object amounts

        - conservation of number in sets 1-20 and above 20

        - instant recognition for number groups 

        - counting backwards sequentially from 10, 100 and 1000 

        - estimating objects within a reasonable range

        - recognizing numerals 1-100 and above, even/odd numbers, missing numbers

        - reproducing numeral forms without reversals for 1-10 and numbers above 10

        - awareness of equality and inequality of numbers

Children will demonstrate the ability to perform number operations by:

        - applying knowledge of addition and subtraction operation

        - being exposed to multiplication and division

        - being able to solve word problems 

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