Phonics/Language Arts/Reading that began in kindergarten continue to build with vowel diphthongs, vowel digraphs, variant vowels, contractions, and more in depth sentence structure as well as writing paragraphs. By the second semester of the first grade children are reading and testing on Accelerated Reading, recognizing main idea, predicting outcome of a story, sequence, alphabetic order, following written and oral directions.
Math—Emphasizes on number & operation, simple algebra & geometry, measurement, and problem solving are introduced in first grade. Students also practice daily on addition and subtraction facts.
Science—Students learn about physical, life, earth, space and the history of science through many hands on projects and experiments.
Social Studies—Students learn about government, citizenship, Texas history, consumer education, historical figures and their contributions, rules and why rules are important.
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