First Grade Syllabus:
| READING | On a Blue Hill,
Open Court A Flint Holds Fire, Open Court The Drinking Gourd, Monjo Silver, Whelan A Lion to Guard Us, Bulla A Toad for Tuesday, Erickson And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Fritz Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder |
| PENMANSHIP | Baker Academy Method
Manuscript Continuing instruction and practice in manuscript style writing. |
| PHONICS | Phonics (C), Modern
Curriculum Press. |
| SPELLING | Spelling skills and rules
from Professor Klugimkoph's Spelling Method. Selected vocabulary from assigned reading. |
| ENGLISH | Language for Daily
Use (2), Harcourt Brace |
| LOGIC | Building Thinking
Skills, Book 1, Critical Thinking Books |
| GEOGRAPHY | From Sea to Sea, Open
Court Age-appropriate stories and images of our country. Foundation for upcoming history and geography. 50 state, continents and topographical concepts. Strong focus on the geography of Oklahoma. |
| ARITHMETIC | Math (2), Saxon Review of previous arithmetic skills, reading and writing numbers, even and odd, ordinal position, adding and subtracting with two digit numbers, measurement, counting money, reading temperature, fractions and mixed numbers, simple multiplication, bar graphs, time, perimeter, geometric shapes and word problems. |
| SCIENCE | HBJ Science (3), Harcourt
Brace Plant and animal habitats, special needs, states of matter and physical change, forces, work, simple machines, forms and uses of water, the water cycle, formation and changes of rocks. |
| MUSIC | Choral singing |
| ART | Baker Academy's
Mastery of Arts |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
Various ball handling
skills, games, and coordination exercises. President's Challenge Physical Fitness Program |
| REFERENCE | World Book
Encyclopedia Merriam Webster's Elementary Dictionary |
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