Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 1

Curriculum

  • Bible
    • Belonging to His Family
    • Heavenly family: the trinity, angels
    • Earthly Family: Adam and Eve
    • Families of the Promise: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
    • Families of the Exodus: Joseph, Moses Families at the times of the Judges and Kings
    • Family of Jesus:
    • Parents, Disciples, Friends
    • Early Church Family: disciples after Christ’s resurrection SDA church family
    • Church Missionaries: Andrews through today’s mission outreach
    • Reverence for God and His Word
  • Art

    • Primary and secondary colors

    • Form: geometric and irregular

    • Lines, size, relationships

    • Textures: visual and tactile

    • Color value: light, medium, dark

    • Emphasis, accent, dominance

    • Tools: scissors, crayons, brush, tempera, chalk, yarn, finger-paint, paper Art experiences in drawing, painting, sculpture

    • Recognition of and appreciation for artists and their works, especially at holidays

  • Computers

    • Use of mouse

    • Joy stick, educational games

    • Ethics

    • Time limits, take turns

    • Introduction to keyboard, space, cursor, escape, delete, home row, return

    • Handling disc drives

    • Choose program from menu

    • Drawing: face maker, buildings, free circles and boxes

  • Language Arts

    • Reading

      • Pre-reading activities

      • Develop sight vocabulary

      • Decoding: consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs

      • Comprehension: main idea of paragraph, literal details, cause and effect

      • Read at instructional level

      • Read easy books independently

    • Speaking

      • Complete sentences

      • Pronunciation and usage

      • Role play, Christian drama, and choral reading

      • Simple poems, memory verses

      • Personal experiences and Bible Stories

    • Spelling

      • Name and address

      • Simple words

    • Listening

      • Stories, poetry

      • Directions, instructions

      • Critical thinking

    • Writing

      • Name, address, and phone number from memory

      • Correct upper and lower case manuscript letters

      • Capitalize “I”, names, first word in sentence, months, days

      • Simple stories

      • Periods and question marks

    • Literature and Media, Prose, Poetry, Television

      • Identify prose and poetry

      • Identify real and imaginative

      • Discrimination in television viewing

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Counting and writing to 100

    • Counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s

    • Place value: base 10

    • Addition and subtraction without regrouping

    • Identify fractions: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4

    • Estimation

    • Measuring: standard and metric

    • Recognize time: clock and calendar

    • Recognize value of coins and paper money

    • Geometric patterns and shapes

    • Simple word problems

    • Basic charts and graphs

    • Simple properties of sets

    • Counting backwards from 10

    • Cardinal and ordinal numbers

  • MUSIC

    • Skip and step patterns

    • Match voice, instrument pitch

    • Notes on staff

    • Pitch and rhythm instruments

    • Brass, woodwind, percussion

    • Steady beat

    • Motion songs

    • Verse and refrain of song

    • Whole, half, quarter notes, rests

    • High and low sounds

    • Identify musical instruments

    • Music and instruments of Baroque period

    • Hymns of praise

    • Classroom singing

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • ball and jump rope activities, tag games, movement exploration activities

    • Fitness

      • testing, running, jogging, balance

    • Concepts

      • safety, rules of health, fitness, games

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, responsibility

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • God’s provision for humans and animals

    • Diet, growth and development

    • Habitats: i.e., desert