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1st Grade

Religion

  • Curriculum: Holy Family uses the Finding God program by Loyola Press. This is a faith-formation curriculum for grades K-8 rooted in scripture, Catholic traditions, and Ignatian spirituality. It's designed to help children build a personal relationship with God.

  • Social and Emotional Learning: The school uses the Friendzy Program to teach core emotional intelligence skills through a faith-based framework. The program helps students manage their emotions, develop empathy, and build healthy relationships with others.

  • Activities: First graders engage in weekly Mass, prayer, and lessons on the rosary, Advent, Lent, the saints, and family life.  

Language Arts

  • Integrated approach: The program combines reading, phonics, handwriting, grammar, writing, and spelling.

  • Writing process: Students are introduced to the five-step writing process, which includes:

    1. Prewriting: Planning and brainstorming ideas.

    2. Drafting: Getting ideas down on paper.

    3. Revising: Improving content and organization.

    4. Editing: Correcting grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

    5. Publishing: Creating a final, polished version.

  • Accelerated Reading Program: This program helps manage and monitor students' independent reading practice. Students read books at their own level and take a computerized quiz to check for comprehension, with teachers using the results to set goals. 

Math

  • Topics: The curriculum covers adding, subtracting, numeration, graphing, money, time, geometry, measurement, and fractions.

  • FRECKLE Program: This is an online learning platform that offers differentiated, adaptive practice in math and other subjects. It helps teachers provide "just-right" practice for every student and uses gamified incentives like virtual coins to keep students motivated. 

Science

  • Investigation and tools: Students learn investigative skills and how to use scientific tools.

  • Units: Topics include matter, plants, animals, weather, and energy.

  • STEM Lessons: STEM education incorporates an interdisciplinary and applied approach to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. At Holy Family, this includes hands-on, in-class science experiments. 

Social Studies

  • Community and Civics: Students study rules, laws, neighborhoods, communities, national symbols, and traditions of the United States.

  • Economics: The program introduces basic economic principles, natural resources, and ecology.

  • Map Skills: Students are introduced to maps and graphing skills. 

Come see where learning meets fun in First Grade!