Oak Meadow 1st Grade
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Product Description
Oak Meadow’s lively and engaging 1st grade curriculum will help you guide your child toward solid reading and math skills while encouraging an active inquisitive mind.
In language arts literacy skills are developed through a language-rich curriculum that focuses on stories poems and songs. Students progress through learning how to print upper- and lower-case letters to a study of word families and consonant blends. The imagination is sparked through fairy tales nature stories and traditional verses as your child develops the necessary skills and confidence to read independently.
In social studies students begin to develop a sense of time and place as they encounter classic tales make their own calendars learn to use a compass and draw maps of their neighborhoods. Multicultural awareness is explored through community connections and a developing sense of good citizenship.
In the math curriculum stories are integrated into the study of numbers and objects from nature collected on a walk become part of learning the four mathematical processes. Students also explore sequences patterns counting money and geometric shapes.
Science arts & crafts music and health round out the first grade experience. Each week students engage in observations of the natural world express themselves through painting and crafts develop their recorder playing skills and conduct inquiries into topics related to their healthy development.
Projects crafts and activities through the year include:
Make a book of stories with summaries and illustrations
Create your own store and marketplace
Make a weather vane
Identify animal tracks
Learn to knit
Build a birdhouse
The following materials are included with the 1st Grade Package:
1st Grade Coursebook
Grade 1 Resource Book
Beginning Recorder
Word Families
Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's Snow Day
Charlie the Ranch Dog: Stuck in the Mud
Charlie the Ranch Dog: Charlie's New Friend
Frog & Toad Are Friends
Frog & Toad Together
Mouse Soup
Mouse Tales
*Note: You will need the K-3 Essentials Package and the 1st Grade Craft Kit.
