A
variety of instructional methods are used in teaching: Large-group,
small groups, Workshop Way phonics, Signs for Sounds, Building
Words, Slingerland instruction and language experience approaches
to learning to read. The children have the weekly support of the
community service students from Service High School and members
of the READS program. These people visit every week to listen
to first graders read out loud, play sight word bingo to help
the students build their sight word vocabulary, and help the students
write responses to their reading in a journals.
Math
is taught with the Everyday Math curriculum. It is supplemented
with Math Their Way, and much hands on activities. Estimation,
number sense, concepts of number operations, computation, geometry,
measurement, statistics, probability, patterns, and algebra. It
is a very indepth learning experience.
D'Nealian
handwriting is taught.
The
students also visit the computer lab once per week to explore
various age appropriate computer programs.
The
children enjoy one hour of physical education and music per week.
They also visit the library once per week for thirty minutes and
have art instruction one hour per every other week.These classes
are taught by specialists in their respective fields.
The
science curriculum is designed to be hands on and through its
use students will understand scientific facts, concepts, principles,
and theories. The three areas of study in first grade are Balancing
& Weighing, The Power of Water, and Alaskan Animals. First
grade also looks at the life cycle of living things.
The
students look at community and how things are related, basic mapping
skills, cultures around the world, famous people in history, and
an overview of different regions of the world are integrated into
the social studies curriculum.
The students will foloow the Standards of Behavior.
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