GRADE 1

RELIGION

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

<*dv_1*>1. Explain that God sent Jesus to be the Savior for all people.

2. Praise and thank God for all His goodness to them, especially

for His love for them in Jesus.

3. Recognize that God promises to be with them and always bless

them.

4. Verbalize that Jesus was born as a baby to grow up to suffer

and die on the cross.

5. Demonstrate a desire to tell others about Jesus, the Savior of

the world.

6. Ask God to help them grow as Jesus grew.

7. Perform acts of kindness as they serve one another in love.

8. Tell that Jesus gave the Lord's Supper to assure His disciples

of the forgiveness of their sins.

9. Rejoice in the hope that because of Jesus' death and

resurrection, they too will live in heaven.

10. Acknowledge that Jesus is alive.

11. Joyfully worship God in obedience, through songs, prayers,

and actions.

12. Demonstrate a desire to share God's gifts to them with

others.

13. Recognize that God calls them to be His own dear children so

that they may follow His purpose and plan for their lives.

14. Express a desire to go to God in prayer trusting that He will

answer the prayers according to His plan for their lives.

15. Demonstrate self-control as they realize that God gives them

the ability to live as His redeemed children who obey His will

for their lives.

16. Realize that when they have difficult choices to make, God's

way is always the best.

17. Rejoice that God loves them not because of their looks,

abilities, strength, or age but because they are His own forgiven

children, redeemed by Christ Jesus.

18. Acknowledge that they can hear God's Word and learn about

Jesus at home or in school as well as in church.

19. Define prayer as simply talking to their heavenly Father.

20. Praise God that He provides for life on earth and forever in

the Promised Land of heaven.

21. Appreciate God's care for them and the wonder of creation.

22. Respond in thanks for God's great blessings by loving and

taking care of the things He has given us.

23. Plan ways to offer their love to God by giving Him their

gifts of time, praise, money, and talents.

24. Praise God that He takes care of our physical and spiritual

needs.

25. Express appreciation of the special words the Lord taught us

in the Lord's Prayer.

LANGUAGE ARTS

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

1. Sing simple hymns and worship songs.

2. Identify long and short vowel sounds and their letter

patterns.

3. Contribute to and read experience stories composed by a group.

4. Listen to get answers to questions or to clarify thinking.

5. Identify final consonant sounds.

6. Use meaningful context to predict an unknown word.

7. Enjoy reading developmentally appropriate books in leisure

time.

8. Spell with increasing accuracy the words they use when they

write.

9. Use phonics and structural analysis to decode unknown words.

10. Use semantic and syntactic clues to decode unknown words.

11. Distinguish between fantasy and reality when listening to

stories.

12. Categorize words into related groups (e.g., red, green, and

white are colors.)

13. Identify the setting of a story they hear or read.

14. Participate in group discussions.

15. Recognize sight words that are important to them.

16. Provide rhyming words for words they hear.

17. Use capital letters for the first word in a sentence and for

names.

18. Plan and perform a puppet show as a group to dramatize a

Bible story.

19. Write legibly in printscript, using appropriate size, slant,

shape, and spacing.

20. Copy written words and simple sentences.

21. Write simple sentences that begin with a capital letter.

22. Use singular and plural forms of nouns correctly.

23. Write short stories using traditional spelling along with

invented spelling.

24. Use a picture dictionary to discover meaning and spelling.

25. Write names, labels for pictures, and stories to illustrate

artwork.

26. Demonstrate an awareness that reading should make sense by

modifying inaccurate predictions about unknown words.

27. Distinguish and identify individual letters and letter groups

in a variety of type and script styles.

28. Recite repetitive chants and rhymes in a group.

MATHEMATICS

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of place value

using various proportional and nonproportional models.

2. Read and write numerals through 100.

3. Order any set of numbers between 1 and 100.

4. Count up to 100 by ones and skip count by twos, fives, and

tens.

5. Use proportional and nonproportional models to model addition

and subtraction.

6. Write an addition or subtraction sentence that describes a

modeled situation.

7. Demonstrate the commutative, the associative, and the identity

properties for addition.

8. Find the sum of three one-digit numbers.

9. Work two-digit addition and subtraction problems.

10. Use a calculator to make mathematical discoveries and to do

two-digit addition and subtraction problems.

11. Make estimates before making measurements, performing

computations, and solving word problems.

12. Identify coins and determine the value of a given set of

coins.

13. Identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures and

describe similarities and differences between figures.

14. Identify congruent figures and lines of symmetry.

15. Measure objects using both nonstandard units and standard

units (cm, in. and ft.).

16. Order a set of objects given some measurable attribute.

17. Determine length, capacity, weight, area, and time.

18. Collect data and make pictographs and bar graphs of the data.

19. Draw conclusions and make informal predictions based on

experience or graphed data.

20. Identify some events that are sure to happen and some that

are not sure to happen.

21. Orally identify halves, thirds, and fourths of regions.

22. Duplicate, continue, and reverse a pattern of concrete

objects.

23. Identify and describe patterns that occur in real-life

situations.

SCIENCE

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

<*dv_0*>1. Construct and maintain a classroom aquarium and terrarium and

identify the living and nonliving materials in each.

2. Define habitat as the place where a plant, animal, or human

lives; and describe various types of habitats in the neighborhood

of the school and types of living things found in each.

3. Give examples of how plants, animals, and humans use water,

air, and soil.

4. Explain how a plant's structure or an animal's body or certain

body parts help protect it.

5. Compare and contrast animals on the basis of where they live,

how they protect themselves, and how they obtain food.

6. Classify and describe rocks by the way they look and feel, and

learn the name of at least one igneous, metamorphic, and

sedimentary rock.

7. Determine the hardness of some rocks and minerals by their

ability to scratch one another.

8. Observe the earth from space via a globe with special emphasis

to land features (mountains, glaciers, deserts, plains, etc.),

continents, water distribution, their home on earth.

9. Observe the changes in weather with special emphasis on

seasonal changes and clouds and weather.

10. Observe how the sky changes daily (sunrise, sunset) and

relate this to time.

11. Record monthly sky changes (following the moon and stars).

12. Record and explain the yearly (seasonal) changes in the sky

(height of sun and moon, length of days, etc.).

13. Explain forces that cause objects to move, by pushing or

pulling.

14. Identify and observe gravity, electricity, and magnets as

sources of forces.

15. Name and use three simple machines: wheels, inclined planes,

levers.

16. Measure the force with and without a ramp with a rubber band

showing how machines trade force for distance.

17. Demonstrate the use of an equal-arm balance and relate the

principle to a playground seesaw and mobiles.

18. Observe and describe how magnets attract and repel each other

and other objects.

19. Describe how a push or pull is needed to start an object

moving, to keep it moving, to change its speed or direction, or

to stop it while it is in motion.

20. Charge some type of plastic material (create an electrical

force by rubbing) and use it to exert a force to lift small bits

of paper.

21. Explain how exercise is related to good health and determine

their optimum heart-rate range for exercise to have an effect on

their physical fitness.

22. Determine how many of certain exercises can be done in a

15-second interval, as they seek to grow in health and

well-being.

23. Identify dangerous household substances (e.g., detergents,

furniture polish, insect repellents) and poisonous nonfood

plants, and list precautions taken to protect themselves and

others from bodily harm.

SOCIAL STUDIES

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

1. Name at least two playground safety rules.

2. Relate how the environment affects life.

3. Understand the role and nature of families.

4. Know their role in the family.

5. Discuss appropriate ways of dealing with conflict.

6. Appreciate how we depend upon each other in a community.

7. Express their feelings about self and family.

8. Track a route from their home to school on a map.

9. Name important public officials (e.g., president, prime

minister, mayor).

10. Recognize national symbols (e.g., flag, eagle).

11. Sing and understand the importance of patriotic songs.

12. Differentiate landforms (e.g., mountains, valleys).

13. Understand the four cardinal directions and locate them on a

map.

14. Appreciate the diversity of people around the world.

15. Explain why people need jobs.

16. See how the classroom is both the same and different from a

family.

17. Formulate and ask more detailed questions.

18. Discuss influences upon their decisions.

19. Understand simple graphs and charts.

20. Explain forms of transportation they use.

21. Act appropriately in new and different situations.

22. Use pictures to demonstrate ideas.

23. Recognize the causes of outcomes.

24. Give a list of instructions in the proper sequence.

25. Use a dictionary or glossary to find the meanings of words.

26. Understand how technology affects their lives.

ART

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

Art History

1. Recognize that art has been created in many different places

and at many different times.

2. Recognize works of art produced in selected various cultures.

3. Distinguish between the works of selected artists.

4. Use terms such as landscape, still life, and portrait to

classify works of art.

The Creation of Art

5. Demonstrate painting skills by mixing and using colors in a

planned composition.

6. Identify a variety of lines and shapes in nature, in the

environment, and in works of art.

7. Use a variety of lines in drawings and paintings.

8. Use drawing and painting media to reproduce recognizable and

expressive images.

9. Cut numerous kinds of lines and shapes fluently with a

scissors.

10. Identify and discuss art concepts found in the self-portraits

of several selected artists, then utilize these concepts in

creating their own self-portraits.

11. Discuss and employ in their own collage a variety of

qualities found in collages by artists.

12. Employ actual and/or simulated textures in their art.

13. Model human and animal forms in clay and decorate with line

and texture.

14. Use printmaking techniques to create a repeated pattern of

lines, shapes, and colors.

15. Construct a sculptural form from found objects, boxes,

cardboard tubes, etc. by gluing, nailing, taping, stacking, or

folding.

16. Construct puppets from colored paper and paper bags.

<*dv_4*>17. Utilize surface design and texture in the creation of a

ceramic form.

18. Use paper, cloth, or mixed-media to create an appliquÇbanner

that conveys an idea or feeling.

19. Contribute to a group mural on a selected theme.

20. Develop social skills and Christian character as they work

with others.

Art Criticism and Analysis

21. Identify moods or feelings portrayed in selected works of

art.

22. Demonstrate increased fluency in the identification and

discussion of line, shape, color, light and dark, and texture in

a given set of art works.

23. Demonstrate increased fluency in the discussion of content

and mood in a given set of art works.

24. Compose sentences describing an abstract painting or print.

25. Recognize methods used by artists to depict space in painting

and drawing.

Aesthetics

26. Recognize the visual arts as a gift from God.

27. Discuss Christian values in relationship to selected works of

art.

28. Respond verbally to the content and technique of a given set

of art works.

MUSIC

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

Singing

1. Follow hand signals or numbers to sing do-re-mi-sol-la

(1-2-3-5-6, or C-D-E-G-A in C Major).

2. Sing echo songs the class echoing the teacher first, then

dividing the class into echoing halves. As the year progresses,

strong student singers can lead the first part of an echo song.

3. Sing a variety of good-quality European, American, and

non-Western folk songs, ethnic music, and hymns in simple

rhythms, now covering the range of a ninth (middle C up to the D

an octave higher).

4. Explore high voice, using good breathing, posture, and

physical freedom, and sing loud and soft while still keeping a

light tone.

Playing (Instruments)

5. Play Orff instruments, using quarter-note, half-note, and

whole-note rhythmic patterns.

6. Keep a steady pulse while playing the basic beat.

7. Experiment with scales on Orff instruments and keyboard.

8. Echo clap rhythms that use eighth notes or quarter rests.

Moving

9. Do finger plays led by the teacher.

10. March, gallop, and skip in time to the beat of music.

11. Pat-clap to 2/4 meter music. Pat-clap-clap to 3/4 meter.12.

Do simple actions to interpret the words of each phrase of a

song.

12. Do simple actions to interpret the words of each phrase of a

song.

13. Raise hands, lower hands for loud and soft. Move arms faster

or slower to coordinate with the music tempo.

Listening

14. Start and stop walking or marching at the beginning and ends

of phrases of music heard and sung.

15. Hear and identify separate phrases (lines) in poetry, hymns,

and folk songs.

Improvising

16. Make up a melody for phrases of a short memorized poem.

17. Scribble, draw, paint, or color question/answer pictures.

18. Experiment with question/answer melodies, using keyboard and

Orff-type instruments.

Reading

19. Clap or speak stick notation (using note stems only, no note

heads) of quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests.

20. See and sing repeated pitches and rhythms on a one- or

two-line music staff.

21. Know the relationship between the length of quarter notes,

half notes (which equal two quarter notes), and whole notes

(which equal four quarter notes or two half notes). Know the

quarter rest sign and its meaning.

Composing

22. Choose instruments to play simple rhythmic patterns to

accompany a story or poetry reading. Also make choices of level

of loudness or softness, rate of speed (tempo), lowness or

highness of pitch to express the words.

23. Write rhyming words to complete phrases.

Comparing

24. In listening or performing music, compare similarities and

differences of music from Western and non-Western cultures (e.g.,

similarities all use rhythm, voices, instruments, melody;

differences languages used, types of instruments, moods

expressed).

25. In listening to music or performing music, compare

differences between music for voices and music for instruments.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

By the end of grade 1, students will be able to:

Acquire Movement Concepts

1. Respond to directions for movement sequences.

2. Using different levels, make different shapes while moving

with a partner.

3. Move with control and purpose in small groups.

4. Stop quickly with control at a given signal.

Acquire Fundamental Movement Patterns and Skills

5. Absorb force by bending while landing from a jump.

6. Use mature form when galloping and sliding.

7. Jump continuously using a two-foot take-off and landing.

8. Use arms to provide force for distance jumping.

9. Continuously hop on either foot.

10. Attempt to leap for distance with either foot leading.

11. Kick a ball.

12. Bounce and catch balls of different sizes.

Acquire Fitness Skills and Behavior

13. Participate in chasing and fleeing games.

14. Participate in parachute and small-apparatus activities.

15. Continuously perform simple twists, bends, stretches, and

swings.

16. Sustain single-leg balances and repeated hops.

17. Use full range of movement of the hips and the shoulders.

Acquire Cognitive Elements Related to Movement Experiences

18. Recognize differences in skills and physical fitness.

<*dv_2*>19. Identify enjoyable movement activities.

20. Recognize the importance of cooperating in group activities.

21. Describe specific activity guidelines and rules.

<*dv_3*>22. Identify the heart's reaction to vigorous physical activity.

Demonstrate Responsible Attitudes and Behaviors

23. Accept activity guidelines and expectations of fair play.

24. Select appropriate supplies and equipment.

25. Honestly state the correct number of tries it takes them to

perform an activity.

26. Transfer rules of the gym to personal play activities.