KATHY NUTLEY , Principal
20 ISLAND AVENUE - MADISON, CONNECTICUT 06443
Tel 203-245-6450 - Fax 203-245-6456

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GRADE 1 CURRICULUM
Language Arts
  • Oral language expression
  • Listening activities
  • Rhythm patterns and predictions
  • Sight word recognition and use
  • Expression in writing
  • Spelling and phonics activities
  • Experiences with literature
  • Exploring the language of literacy
  • Handwriting
Our program includes reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading and Writer’s Workshop
Math
  • Patterns and relationships
  • Addition with answers to 20
  • No carrying
  • Subtraction with answers from 18
  • No borrowing
  • Mathematics as problem solving
  • Mathematics as communication
  • Mathematics as reasoning
  • Mathematical connections
  • Estimation
  • Number sense and numeration
  • Concepts of whole number operations
  • Whole number computation
  • Geometry and spatial sense
  • Measurement
Math concepts are learned through the concrete, symbolic, conceptual, and abstract approach, using manipulatives.
Science and Health
  • Plants (Spring & Fall Observations)
  • Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
  • Geology: Fossils, Dinosaurs
  • Human Body: Nutrition, Skeleton, and Five Senses
  • Careful with Strangers, Being Healthy
Science and Social Studies are taught across all curriculum areas.
Social Studies
  • Safety
  • Manners
  • Holidays around the World
  • Maps and Globes
  • School and Community
  • Family

Homework Policy

Monday and Wednesday evenings for 15 minutes

GRADE 1 CURRICULUM LINKS
 
Math Practice  
Addition: Level 1 - uses the digits from 10 to 9
AAA Math: Grade 1
Addition Surprise

A+ Math
- flash cards and more
Basic Math
- Finish the Number Sentences
Brain Teasers - from Houghton Mifflin
Buzzing with Shapes - almost like tic-tac-toe
Clockwise - Choose your level to see how much you know.
Compare It  Choose your appropriate level
Cuisenaire Rods Math Activities
Flash Cards for Kids - good practice
Funbrain: Numbers and LettersGuess the Number  many levels of difficulty
Graphing Made Easy : Make your own graphs
Hi Rise Math - play this the first time with an adult
How Many? - Count the pictures.
Interactive Mathematics - An adult needs to go through and pick out those activities that are best.
Hidden Picture - addition - check your addition facts

Hidden Picture - Subtraction - check your skill
Kids Math - pick your level
Line Jumper - do math on a number line
Joe the Dragon: Math and More
K-2 Math - Choose from many activities.
Math Advantage - match different ways to tell the same time
Math Baseball - choose your level and score

Math Brain: Leveled Fun
Math Grade 1: Many Activities from MacMillian/ Mc Graw Hill

Matho - find the answer to the addition problem
Memory Game - match basic addition facts to discover the picture
Measure It  Choose the easy ones first.
Mend the Number Square: place the missing numbers in the numbered box
Money 
Mouse on the Move - Which number from 1 to 10 is missing?
Musical Memory Turtle
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - many excellent choices
One False Move  Practice ordering numbers
Park the Pods  Number line placement
Pattern Blocks   
Pattern Games - three choice levels
Robot Calculator
Saxon Publishers Activities- patterns, multiples, sorting and graphing.
Snakes and Ladders Try it with a Partner
Soccer Shootout - choose the correct level and practice your facts
Subtraction Mystery Picture - concentration game with basic facts
Test the Toad  Addition and Subtraction Problems
Telling Time 
Two Player Math Game - Who will win?
Twin Pics - find what is different.
Willy the Watchdog - You can tell time here.

Language Arts  
Activities
Alphabet Games
BBC Words and Pictures
BBC- CVC Words
Brain Connections
BBC Poem Pack: Long Vowels
Vocabulary Pinball
Digby Mole:  Rhyming Words
Seussville
Primary Stationery
 
Houghton Mifflin: Spelling
BBC Magic Key   *(WS)
Patti's Electronic Classroom
Teacher Talk: Grade 1 Dolch Sight Words
Starfall Reading
Little Animal Activity Center
Elementary Story Place
Story Place  Library
Teacher Talk: Read Across America
Science

Ranger Rick's Go Wild Games
Snowflakes
Owl Pellet Disection

Unit: The Skeleton

   
Calcium and Bones

Unit: Dinosaurs

Albertosaurus
Allosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Apatosaurus
Archaeopteryx
Brachiosaurus
Ceratosaurus
Coelephysis

Deinonychus
Dimetrodon

Diplodocus
Iguanodon
Ichthyosaurus
Maisaura

Plateosaurus
Protoceratops

Pteranodon
Stegosaurus

Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus
Velociraptor
Dinos Rock Story 
Dinosaur ABC's
Build-A-Saurus- Harcourt

Unit: Plants

4-H Garden- Click Kids
Teacher Talk:  Garden Grants

Teacher Talk: Field Study
Dandelions & Parachutes Teacher Talk: Teacher Net Lesson

Teacher Talk: Smithsonian:  Garden

Teacher Talk: Corn Seed Activities

Activities

Activities
Alphabet Games
BBC History Games
BBC Science Lab
BBC Dynamo's Den
Monamophosis
Puzzles
Ludovic the Bear
Voyage of the Mayflower
The First Thanksgiving
North Pole and World Christmases
Teacher Talk: Dolch Sight Words
PBS:  Dragontales ActivitiesPBS: Arthurs' Activities
 

 

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