First Grade Curriculum Overview

Language Arts

• Build a reading vocabulary of high frequency words
• Independently read grade appropriate material
• Improve skills to become and effective reader
• Have command of letter names and sounds: initial, medial, and final
• Identify main characters and the beginning, middle, and end of a story
• Write independently with some fluency; begin to demonstrate sentence sense and reflect logical flow of words and ideas
• Begin to use conventions in spelling, punctuation, and grammar
• Print legibly
• Put spaces between words
• Apply spelling patterns
• Focus on speaker and listen with appropriate attention span
• Listen and recall some facts and main ideas
• Follow simple two
• step directions
• Share and participate in class discussions
• Express ideas in complete sentences and stay with topic
• Use age appropriate vocabulary and speech understood by others

Mathematics

• Count by ones past 100, by twos, fives, and tens to 100
• Read, write, understand, and use numbers up to 100
• Represent equivalent forms of the same number
• Count and group objects in ones and tens
• Identify and know the value of coins and show different combinations of coins that equal the same value
• Demonstrate fluency with basic number combinations for addition and subtraction facts
• Recognize and make reasonable estimates when comparing larger and smaller quantities
• Create and solve story problems
• Recognize, describe, and extend repeating patterns
• Compare the lengths of two or more objects
• Tell time to the nearest half hour and relate time to events
• Classify objects by their attributes
• Collect, organize, and represent data
• Interpret and draw conclusions from data
• Add and subtract two digit numbers and solve addition problems with three addends

Science

• Classify groups of things as living or nonliving
• Identify parts of a plant and insect
• Investigate weather patterns
• Heat, magnets, light, and energy
• Explore states of matter, gravity, inertia, momentum, and friction
• Show awareness of the five senses
• Explore ways to stay safe and healthy
• Use scientific knowledge to ask questions and make observations

Social Studies

• Explore family, school, community, fair play, good sportsmanship, cooperation, and friendship
• Study skills that include: maps, globes, directions, map keys, sequencing, and calendars

Islamic Studies

• Explore Allah (SWT)
• Learn about Islam and the Muslim identity
• Know the five pillars
• Learn Salat: procedure, behavior, and timings
• Learn about the life of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and stories of all the Prophets
• Know Islamic Adhab (Behavior)
• Memorize simple duas
• Memorize and write short Islamic themed poems
• Learn Islamic songs
• Learn the Islamic months and the significance of the Hijri calendar
• Quranic studies of selected surahs of the Holy Quran

Arabic

• Learn to read and write words and short phrases
• Review of numbers and introduction of vocabulary including days of the week and Islamic months
• Simple dialog
• Ask and answer questions
• Thematic vocabulary