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John F. Kennedy Elementary School > 1st Grade

Curriculum


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What Will My Child Learn in First Grade?

Our curriculum is based on the Massachusetts State Frameworks. The following are topics and standards addressed in Second Grade.


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Student Responsibilities
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
History and Social Science
Research


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Specific expectations of Student Responsibilities include:

  • Follows classroom rules
  • Follows classroom routines
  • Shows initiative and self-direction
  • Uses classroom materials purposefully and respectfully
  • Makes transitions and adapts to changes in routine
  • Shows eagerness and curiosity as a learner
  • Sustains attention to work over a period of time
  • Approaches tasks with flexibility
  • Practices self-control
  • Interacts cooperatively with peers
  • Uses simple strategies to make social decisions and solve problems
  • Completes work carefully
  • Completes work in an appropriate time frame
  • Completes and returns homework
  • Demonstrates organizational skills
  • Demonstrates cooperative attitude with adults
  • Follows directions
  • Listens carefully

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Specific expectations in English Language Arts include:

Language

  • Shares ideas orally
  • Contributes to class discussion
  • Reading and Literature
  • Reads orally with fluency
  • Reads with comprehension
  • Uses strategies to read unknown words
  • Recognizes common sight words
  • Retells a story’s beginning, middle, and end
  • Identifies characters and setting
  • Restates facts from non-fiction text heard or read

Composition

  • Writes stories that have a beginning, middle, and end
  • Uses capitalization and punctuation appropriately
  • Prints upper and lowercase letters and numbers legibly

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Specific expectations in Mathematics include:

Number Sense and Operations

  • Names and writes numbers to 100
  • Knows addition facts up to 10
  • Knows subtraction facts up to 10
  • Adds and subtracts two-digit numbers without regrouping
  • Identifies common fractions (1/2, 1/4) as parts of a whole

Patterns, Functions, Algebra

  • Identifies, extends, and creates repeating patterns

Geometry

  • Describes attributes of two-dimensional shapes
  • Describes attributes of three-dimensional shapes

Measurement

  • Tells time to the hour and half hour
  • Measures using inches
  • Knows names and values of coins

Data Analysis, Statistics, Probability

  • Interprets graphs, charts, and tables

Applies to All Standards

  • Applies problem-solving strategies
  • Communicates mathematical reasoning effectively


Science Top of Page


Specific expectations in Science include:

Organizes, predicts, and communicates the concepts of:

  • Living Things
  • The Senses
  • Weather/Changes

History and Social Science Top of Page


Specific expectations in History and Social Science include:

  • US Leaders, Symbols, Events, Holidays
  • Individuals, Families & Communities

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Updated: September 17, 2011  



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