Art - Grade 1
Art - Grade 1 (1 of 1) explores the basic tools, elements, and principles of visual art. The course explores art forms such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. Topics include lines, shapes, patterns, color, texture, balance, imagery, symbol, and subject matter. In addition to examining how visual art can represent a culture, the course explores why artworks and museums are important to the community. The course concludes with critiquing visual artworks and determining what gives art value.
Foundations in Reading
Foundations in Reading (1 of 1) reviews reading skills that build a strong foundation for effective reading. Topics include: a review of sounds in words by pronouncing initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes by segmenting and blending phonemes. The course begins with reading one-syllable words and moves onto multi-syllable words, practice decoding words in isolation and in the context of sentences, poems, stories, as well as informational texts. Reading fluency focuses on reading for accuracy, rate, expression, purpose, and understanding.
Health Education - Grade 1
Health Education - Grade 1 (1 of 1) explores physical, emotional, and social well-being through the exploration of health and safety behaviors. Topics include human growth and development, nutrition, hygiene, healthy habits, disease prevention, interpersonal communication, and personal safety. The course includes two projects: “Solve a Health Problem” and "Ready, Set, Health Goal!”
Introduction to Computers
Introduction to Computers (1 of 1) provides essential background knowledge and practical instruction in the use of computers. Topics include how technology has shaped people and the world, how to be a safe and responsible digital citizen, and how to communicate and collaborate using digital tools. The course targets beginner-level skills in computer troubleshooting, keyboard use, word processing, slideshow software, spreadsheets, and basic internet skills.
Physical Education - Grade 1
Physical Education - Grade 1 (1 of 2) builds on the skills developed in kindergarten and helps students develop greater competency in movements and motor skills. The course explores exercises to warm up and cool down like bending, stretching, twisting, and curling. Topics include more advanced skills in running, skipping, hopping, leaping, jumping, and galloping, dance and creating dance routines, gymnastics, obstacle courses, and the importance of nutrition.
Physical Education - Grade 1
Physical Education - Grade 1 (2 of 2) reinforces manipulative skills and provides practice and repetition to develop mature movement patterns. Topics include manipulative skills such as dribbling with hands, dribbling with feet, kicking, tossing, throwing overhand, catching, and striking with short and long-handled implements. The course reinforces and expands on short and long rope jumping skills as well as the benefits of being active, following directions, food choices, food groups, the functions of the heart, trying challenging activities, accepting feedback, and playing well with others.
Science - Grade 1
In Science - Grade 1 (1 of 2), students will learn about many of the basic concepts in the field of science. They will begin by exploring light and sound. Once students have had a chance to understand the concepts of light and sound, they will investigate light and sound in a hands-on project. Students will then discover matter, motion, and forces. From this knowledge, students will be able to identify properties of objects and how they move. Students will also get to investigate patterns in life such as how life cycles and how energy flows. Students will look at plants and animals throughout their life cycles and then focus on the similarities and differences between parent organisms and their young.
Science - Grade 1
Science - Grade 1 (2 of 2) explores how living things stay alive and how plants and animals survive, along with how plants and animals help solve human problems. It describes various objects in the sky such as the Sun, moon, and stars. Lastly, it will explain the changes in daylight in different seasons and weather and describe natural resources.
Social Studies - Grade 1
Social Studies - Grade 1 (1 of 2) examines how a community functions and how each member contributes to the community for the common good through the study of civics, geography, economics, and history. Students will study their local community and learn about characteristics that define urban, suburban, and rural communities. Democratic principles and participation in government are introduced. Community resources, environment, change over time, and cause/effect are examined.
Social Studies - Grade 1
Social Studies - Grade 1 (2 of 2) examines the various features, symbols, holidays, leaders of the United States, as well as describing important people of the past. Activities include identifying national, state, and local government leaders and exploring how local government makes and enforces laws. The impact of resources and the environment are explored in terms of how humans live.