Curriculum

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  • Old and New Testament themes: God frees His people; Life and commands of Jesus

  • Weekly Scripture memory

  • Integration of Biblical worldview in all subjects

Language Arts

1st Grade

Bible

  • Phonemic awareness: Consonant and vowel sounds, digraphs, blends, and rhyme patterns

  • Reading fluency, including 250 sight words

  • Orton-Gillingham phonics instruction and spelling of phonetic and non-phonetic works:

  • Reading comprehension: Identify main idea, cause and effect, sequence; make predictions

  • Vocabulary: Homophones, synonyms, antonyms; learning new vocabulary in context

  • Listening and speaking; Listen to a variety of genres; present information orally

  • Spelling: Phonetic and non-phonetic words

  • Writing and grammer: Rules for capitalization and punctuation; basic parts of speech; journals, poetry, and short narrative and expository writings

Library Skills

Math

  • Story elements and appreciation of literature

  • Locating and organizing information

  • Numbers and operations: Numeration, ordinal numbers; addition and subtraction, including mastery of addition facts to 20; place value, simple fractions

  • Measurement: Time, money, customary measurement

  • Graphs and data interpretation

  • Geometry: Plane and solid figures; sides and corners

  • Estimation, including benchmarks and rounding

  • Algebraic reasoning: patterns, concept of equality; commutative property of addition

  • Problem solving strategies

Social Studies

  • Civics: Communities; rules and laws

  • Economics: Producers and consumers

  • Geography: Map skills

  • History: National symbols; Pledge of Allegiance; Culture & holidays, Historic figures

Science: One science lab class per week

  • Life science: Plant growth and function, animal kingdoms and survival, health and nutrition

  • Earth science: Earht’s resources, weather changes, seasons

  • Physical science: Magnets, sound, properties of gas, liquid, solid

Physical Education: Two classes per week

Art: One class per week

Technology: One class per week

  • Website navigation, computer graphics, introduction to coding and keyboarding

  • Personal fitness, group games, rules and techniques, sportsmanship

Music: One class per week

  • Vocal music, listening, rhythm and movement, music appreciation

  • Elements of visual art, media techniques, critical response

Foreign Language: One class per week

  • Survey of conversational Spanish and Spanish culture

2nd Grade

  • Old and New Testament themes: God frees His people; Life and commands of Jesus

  • Weekly Scripture memory

  • Integration of Biblical worldview in all subjects

Bible

  • Orton-Gillingham phonics instruction and spelling of phonetic and non-phonetic words:

  • Vocabulary: homophones, synonyms, antonyms; new vocabulary in context

  • Reading fluency and comprehension in guided and silent reading: Main idea, cause and effect, sequence, plot, theme, characterization, inference;

  • Listening and speaking: Listen to a variety of genres; present information orally

  • Writing and grammer: Capitalization and punctuation; basic parts of speech; journals, poetry, letters, short narrative, and expository writing

Language Arts

Math

  • Numbers and operations, including, mastery of addition and subtraction facts to 20; regrouping; introduction to multiplication and division; fractions

  • Measurement: Time, money, customary measurement for length, temperature, capacity, weight

  • Graphs: Creation and interpretation of bar graphs, pictographs, circle graphs

  • Geometry: Plane and solid figures, congruence, symmetry, terms

  • Estimation of number, length, weight; rounding

  • Algebraic reasoning: Creation and extension of patterns, concept of equality; commutative property of addition

  • Problem solving strategies

Library Skills

  • Story elements and appreciation of literature

  • Locating and organizing information

  • Civics: Citizenship

  • Economics: Work, income, spending, saving, giving

  • Geography: Map skills, geography of Georgia; Other culture: Japan

  • History: Early America and the history of Georgia

Social Studies

Science: One science lab class per week

  • Life science: Classification and identification of animals; habitats, food chains, the human body

  • Earth science: Slow and rapid changes, water cycle, severe weather; characteristics and movement of the sun, planets, moon, and stars

  • Physical science: Movement and magnets; sound

Technology: One class per week

  • Microsoft Word and Excel basic functions, Microsoft Power Point, introduction to computer programming

Physical Education: Three classes per week

  • Personal fitness, competitive games, weekly mile run, rules and techniques, sportsmanship

Music: One class per week

  • Elements of visual art, media techniques and processes, art in relation to history and culture

Art: One class per week

  • Exploration of rhythm, melody, harmony, music theory, and music appreciation

Foreign Language: One class per week

  • Survey of conversational Spanish and Spanish culture