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1st Grade Academic Curriculum

Forest Hills Public School --> Curriculum Overview
Forest Hills Public School --> Official K-8 ELA Curriculum

For more information on detailed standards and objectives, please see ---> Common Core 

​End of Year Grade Expectations (as seen on progress reports and report cards)

Phonics Unit 1 Overview and Anchor Charts
Phonics Unit 2 Overview and Anchor Charts
Phonics Unit 3 Overview and Anchor Charts
Phonics Unit 4 Overview and Anchor Charts
Phonics Unit 5 Overview and Anchor Charts

Reading Workshop Unit 1 Overview and Anchor Charts
Reading Workshop Unit 2 Overview and Anchor Charts
​Reading Workshop Unit 3 Overview and Anchor Charts
​Reading Workshop Unit 4 Overview and Anchor Charts

​Writing Workshop Unit 1 Overview and Anchor Charts
Writing Workshop Unit 2 Overview and Anchor Charts
Writing Workshop Unit 3 Overview and Anchor Charts
Writing Workshop Unit 4 Overview and Anchor Charts

Social Emotional Learning

Knapp Forest’s Social Emotional Monthly Themes (Mrs Reynolds Building Scope and Sequence aligned with Classroom Read Alouds)
September- Be Positive / Growth Mindset
  • Thanks for Sharing, Tommy
  • Are You Scared, Jacob?
  • My Happy Day
  • Don’t Give Up
  • Dylan’s Questions
October- Be Brave- Do What is Right
  • Be Patient, Maddie
  • Don’t Worry, Mason
  • I Will Find A Way
​November- Be Grateful
  • I Am A Star
  • I Can Be Mindful

December- Be Generous / Helpful
  • We Can Work Together
  • We Can Solve Problems

January- Be Kind / Empathetic
  • I Can Be Kind
  • I Take Turns
  • The New Teacher
  • How Do You Feel, Ella?

February- Be Respectful

  • I Show Respect
  • That’s Not Fair!
  • Are You Listening, Jack?
  • I Can Follow The Rules
  • Move Over, Please
  • Ricky Follows the Routine
  • Say “Please” and “Thank You”

March- Be Responsible

  • Charlie is Responsible
  • I Can Make A Plan
  • Let’s Get It Started
  • Clean Up, Everybody
  • Slow Down, Aliyah

April- Be Honest / Integrity
  • Good Choice, Jenny

May-Be Humble- Help Others Succeed
  • Jealous of Josie
  • Come Play, Omar
  • Ask For Help, Please

Kindergarten Academic Curriculum

Knapp Forest's Kindergarten Parent Curriculum Book ---> Curriculum Overview
Forest Hills Public School --> Official K-8 ELA Curriculum
For more information on detailed standards and objectives, please see ---> Common Core 

End of Year Grade Expectations
​(as seen on progress reports and report cards)

Successful Learning Behaviors
  • Demonstrates responsible behavior
  • Demonstrates ability to problem solve
  • Works well with others
  • Demonstrates respect
  • Communicates experiences and ideas effectively
  • Sustains whole body listening
  • Follows directions
  • Organizes self and belongings
  • Uses time constructively to complete tasks
  • Demonstrates appropriate fine motor development (scissors, pencils, etc.)
Mathematics
  • Counting forwards by 1s to 110
  • Counting by 10s to 110
  • Counting backwards from 20
  • Reading numbers to 30
  • Writing numbers to 30 (individual backward number is ok, but must be in correct place value location)
  • Counting objects to 20
  • Addition using tools within 10
  • Subtraction using tools within 10
  • Fluency in addition and subtraction within 5
  • Composing and decomposing numbers 11-19 using drawings or objects
  • Names of 2D shapes
Technology
  • ​​Explores digital tools
Language Arts
  • Supplies letter names
  • Supplies consonant sounds
  • Supplies vowel sounds
  • Supplies rhyming words
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the concepts of print
  • Engages in reading activities
  • Reads high-frequency words (snap words)
  • With prompting and support, identifies the main topic of informational text
  • With prompting and support, retells familiar stories
  • Expresses own ideas through pictures and writing
  • Uses letter sounds to write words (beginning, middle, and end sounds)
Science
  • Motion: pushes and pulls
  • Plants and animals live here
  • Weather and climate
  • The needs of a healthy body
Social Studies
  • Yesterday, today, tomorrow: how people learn about the past
  • Maps and gloves: environmental directions and positional words
  • U.S. symbols
  • Rights and responsibilities of being a community member
  • Wants and needs

Literacy: Lucy Calkins - Reading, Writing, and Phonics

  • Phonics: Ietter name recognition, sound/symbol correlation, beginning, middle, ending sounds of words
  • ChoraI reading
  • One-to-one finger print match
  • Reading Helpers
  • Fiction/non-fiction literature
  • Listening to literature, music, poetry
  • Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables, poems
  • Social listening
  • Constructing visual images while listening
  • OraI communication skiIIs
  • RoIe play/sequencing of events
  • Following and giving directions
  • ​​Paraphrasing and summarizing
  • Organizing ideas
  • Experience stories
  • Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
  • Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
  • Beginning writing process: Capital letter to st.art the sentence, spacing between words' sentences that "make sense", neat handwriting, no capital letters throughout the sentence .
  • Handwriting (correct pencil grip), correct formation of letters: start at top- to bottom, left to right

About the Kindergarten Reading Units
"In kindergarten, your students begin to establish their identities as readers while they build the foundational skills for reading. In the first unit, We Are Readers, children will develop concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and the knowledge necessary to use story language to support their approximations of reading. The second unit, Super Powers: Reading with Print Strategies and Sight Word Power, glories in children’s love of play as they learn “super power” strategies that help them search for meaning, use picture clues, work on fluency, and communicate meaning. In the third unit, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles, children attempt more difficult books with greater independence and use reading strategies to read with more accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. The last kindergarten unit, Becoming Avid Readers, helps youngsters role-play their way into being the readers you want them to become. They pay close attention to characters, setting, and plot while reading fictional stories, become experts in nonfiction topics as they read together in clubs, and play with rhyme and rhythm while reading poetry." - Heinemann 


​About the Kindergarten Writing Units
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"The kindergarten units begin with Lucy and her colleagues helping children approximate writing by drawing and labeling first in all-about books and then in stories. The first unit, Launching the Writing Workshop, acknowledges that most children will be labeling their drawings—and the letters in those labels will include squiggles and diamonds. The second unit, Writing for Readers, helps children write true stories—but does so fully aware that the hard part will be writing read-able words. Growth in kindergarten is spectacular, and by the later kindergarten units, children are invited to use their new-found powers to live writerly lives. In How-To Books: Writing to Teach Others, Unit 3, students write informational how-to texts on a procedure familiar to them. In Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, the fourth and final unit in the kindergarten series, students craft petitions, persuasive letters, and signs that rally people to address problems in the classroom, the school, and the world." - Heinemann

Math: Everyday Mathematics

This is the Login URL for online student math accounts! --> Everyday Mathematics
  • Counting forward and backward to and from 20 (end goal up to 110, by 1's; 110 by 10's)
  • One-to-one relationship
  • Concepts of more, less than, same/equal
  • Sequence of events
  • Patterning
  • Correspondence of quantities
  • Ordinal-cardinal- relationship
  • Number-numeraI relationship
  • Reading and writing numbers to 30
  • Recognition of basic sets/collections
  • Solves basic addition and subtraction within 0-10
  • Introduction to number line
  • Estimation/prediction
  • Elementary geometry (shapes)
  • Calendar (yesterday, today, tomorrow)
  • Basic problem-solving strategies
  • Basic chart and graph concepts 

Social Studies

  • Map and globes; environmental directional and positional words
  • U. S. symbols
  • Wants and needs
  • Yesterday, today, tomorrow- how people learn about the past
  • Rights and responsibilities of being a responsible community member

Science

  • The needs of a healthy body
  • Basic needs
  • Earth's Materials: rocks, soil, sand and water
  • Five Senses in our world
  • Motion- pushes and pulls/engineering 
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  • Welcome to Kindergarten
  • Meet the Teacher
    • My Professional Portfolio
  • Curriculum
  • Support at Home
  • Classroom News