GRADE 1

Course Name: Language Arts

Course Description

In Grade 1 Language, our students are introduced to words and language in several ways. By learning various texts and forms of media, they will develop the foundational knowledge and skills needed to establish a firm basis in the English Language.

Course Outline

Grade 1 Language Arts - Total Hours (158 Hours)

Unit One: Writing (40 hours)

In this unit, students will identify common and proper nouns used in their day-to-day lives. They will learn to use these nouns in simple sentences. They will also learn about the purpose of each subject pronoun. Finally, they will study adjectives, verbs, prepositions, punctuations and accomplish activities such as writing their favourite memories.

Unit Two: Oral Communication (39 hours)

In this unit, students will apply listening strategies to understand the media text Diary of a Spider. They will also differentiate passive and active listening techniques and reflect on the importance of these techniques to their personal lives.

Furthermore, they will learn to distinguish between fictional and personal stories. Lastly, they will identify and reflect on the following areas: their strengths as listeners and speakers and their areas for improvement.

Unit Three: Reading (40 Hours)

Students will explore active reading strategies. They will assess how they can improve these strategies. They will also apply segmenting and blending techniques in reading and writing. Students will learn about sighting words, fictional and non-fictional texts, and a story’s different parts.

To conclude, they will learn to identify critical information in a text, short novel or media text.

Unit Four: Media Literacy (39 Hours)

In this unit, students will identify different types of media used in everyday life. They will explore the nature of a ‘media gadget’, its purpose and its design. They will also identify the characteristics of kids’ commercials and express their opinion on the matter. Finally, they will participate in a haunted house advertising activity to demonstrate their understanding of conventions and techniques associated with advertising.

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool:

Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
Understand the value of diversity in learning and society
Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
Refine their existing compensatory strategies (reading strategies, writing strategies, listening strategies, study strategies, researching strategies, strategies for memory, organizational strategies, and time management strategies) for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use throughout the elementary grades.
Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners.
Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons; students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing.

Course Name: Science

Course Description

In Grade 1 Science, our students are introduced to science and its place in the world. They will learn about living things, simple structures, the sun, and energy and better understand the Earth.

Course Outline

Grade 1 Science -Total Hours (95 Hours)

Unit One: Needs & Characteristics of Living Things (24Hours)

In this unit, students will investigate and compare the physical characteristics of living things and identify their environment. They will understand the basic needs of humans and other living things. They will learn how living things meet their basic needs. Students will learn about the function of major body parts of animals and living things. They will also learn the characteristics of a healthy environment and how to maintain it.

Unit Two: Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures (24-Hours)

In this unit, students will learn about structures both natural and made by humans. They will identify the natural sources of materials and distinguish between materials, objects, and structures created by humans and those found in nature.

They will investigate the characteristics of these materials. They will determine what happens to objects when they are no longer needed and how to prevent them from harming the environment.

Unit Three: Understanding Matter and Energy (24-Hours)

In this unit, students will learn about the sun and other sources of energy and how it affects living things. They will also learn about energy consumption and energy conservation, and how we can sustainably use these energies.

Unit Four: Understanding Earth and Space Systems (23-Hours)

In this unit, students will learn about the differences between day and night and how it affects living things. They will investigate and describe the seasons of the year and how the changes in seasons affect our world. They will assess the impact of these changes on living things and their conditions.

Teaching Strategies

The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content.

Throughout this course, students will:

Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners.
Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons. Students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks by using animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.

Course Name: Math

Course Description

In Grade 1 Math, our students are introduced to numbers in various ways. By exploring basic concepts such as addition, subtraction, measurement, and patterns, they will start their journey to mastery of Mathematics.

Course Outline

Grade 1 Math -Total Hours (158 Hours)

Unit One: Numbers 1 to 10 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will learn to understand the numbers 0 – 10. They will learn to read and write these numbers in ascending and descending order. They will also explore techniques to identify between two groups of numbers that are higher than the other. Furthermore, they will demonstrate their understanding of the following strategies: number line and one-to-one correspondence. Finally, our students will learn to compose or decompose single-digit numbers.

Unit two: Numbers to 20 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will read and represent whole numbers up to 20. They will write the proper order of numbers 1 – 20 in ascending and descending order. They will learn how to understand two-digit numbers using tens and ones. They will also learn to estimate and count objects. Finally, students are introduced to ordinal numbers.

Unit Three: Addition to 10 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will develop an understanding of simple additions to 10. They will learn to add to 10 using different strategies. Furthermore, they will create and solve equations with addends. They will explore the relationship between addition and subtraction (fact families).

Unit Four: Subtraction to 10 (16 Hours)

Students will learn how to subtract using different strategies in this unit. They will also understand and solve equations using comparing and decomposing. Finally, they will discover the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction

Unit Five: Graphing, Money, and Financial Literacy (15 Hours)

In this unit, students will identify and describe the attributes and value of coins, as well as count and represent groups of coins. They will understand and use money as a means of exchange. Additionally, they will collect, organize, display, interpret and describe data on graphs.

Unit Six: Numbers to 100 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will learn how to count, read, and write to 120. They will learn how to find numbers to 120 and understand the value of ten and one blocks. They will order the numbers 1 to 120 and learn how to skip count to 120. They will also learn to compare two numbers using the symbols <,>,=.

Unit Seven: Addition to 20 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will learn to add to 20. They will solve addition problems with 2 to 3 addends and sums within 20. They will also learn about the associative property of addition and determine if an equation is equal.

Unit Eight: Subtraction to 20 (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will learn to subtract to 20 using different strategies. They will utilize comparing and decomposing. They will also learn to subtract to find an unknown addend and understand the basics of fact families.

Unit Nine: Measurement and Time (16 Hours)

In this unit, students will compare and order objects by length, width, height, and weight. They will estimate and measure objects using non-standard units manually or with a weighing scale. In addition, they will learn to measure the capacity of containers. Finally, students will describe the parts of an analog clock and understand the passage of time (days, months, seasons).

Unit Ten: Shapes, Positioning, and Fractions (15 Hours)

In this unit, students will learn about 2D and 3D shapes and identify, name, and describe them. They will learn how to compose and decompose these shapes. They will also learn how to describe relative positions and understand and apply the concepts of symmetry, equal sharing (Fractions), and partitioning.

Teaching Strategies

Using various instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop inquiry, problem-solving, and communication skills as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content.

Throughout this course, students will:

Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners.
Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons. Students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks by using animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.

Course Name: Computer Science

Course Description

In Grade 1 Computer Science, students will read and alter existing code, including code that involves sequential events, and describe how changes to the code affect the outcomes. Students will engage in more sophisticated unplugged activities and solve a broader range of puzzles. Students will learn the fundamentals of programming collaboration, investigation and critical thinking skills, persistence in the face of difficulty, and internet safety.

Course Outline

Grade 1 Computer Science -Total Hours (63 Hours)

Unit One: Intro to Programming (31-Hours)

In this unit, students will learn to be able to explain what a programmer does. They will define code as a language for computers and recognize there is more than one computer language. Students will create and arrange sequences of steps to reach the desired outcome. Use appropriate vocabulary to describe these steps.

Unit Two: Conditionals (32-Hours)

In this unit, students will describe the problems’ characteristics to understand outcomes and restraints. Students will learn that a conditional statement tells a program to execute different actions depending on whether a condition is true or false.

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental coding concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving, and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content. Throughout this course, students will:
Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
The content is web-based, with students writing and running code in the browser.
Teachers utilize tools and resources provided by Kodable to leverage time in the classroom and give focused 1-on-1 attention to students.

Course Name: Social Studies

Course Description

In Grade 1 Social Studies, our students are introduced to changing roles and responsibilities in the local community. They will also investigate their local community, study natural and built features, and the different areas and services available. They will then analyze maps and understand how they can be used to provide directions around where they live.

Course Outline

Grade 1 Social Studies - Total Hours (63 Hours)

Unit One: Changing Roles and Responsibilities (32-Hours)

In this strand, students will learn how a person’s role or relationship may change in different places. They will understand the impact people can have on other people and identify elements of respectful behaviour that they can practice in their everyday lives. They will also learn the importance of treating other people and the environment with respect.

Unit Two: The Local Community (31-Hours)

In this strand, students will learn how people use natural and built features in their local community to meet their needs. They will outline how they can interact with these structures responsibly. They will Identify some of the services in the community for which the government is responsible and describe key responsibilities of people in the community in relation to those services. They will also use units of measurement and simple maps to reference various areas, services, and features of their community.

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving, and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content.

Throughout this course students will:

Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
Understand the value of diversity in learning and in society
Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners.
Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons, students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks through the use of animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.
The course relies on the help of a teacher to support young learners through the

GRADE 1

Course Name: Language Arts

Course Description

Course Outline

Grade 1 Language Arts - Total Hours (158 Hours)

Unit One: Writing (40 hours)

Unit Two: Oral Communication (39 hours)

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Unit Three: Reading (40 Hours)

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Unit Four: Media Literacy (39 Hours)

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Teaching Strategies

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