First Grade
Concord Christian School endeavors to give a completely God-centered orientation of life to each student. We strive to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a well-grounded biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in First Grade include:
Bible
- Creation
- Salvation
- Old Testament stories
- The birth of Jesus
- Jesus’ childhood and early ministries
- Crucifixion and Resurrection
- New Testament stories
- Missions Focus Areas
- Local: elderly with trips to assisted living facilities
- International: Spain
Language Arts
- Penmanship
- Recognition and usage of basic punctuation
- Writing simple but complete sentences
- Using descriptive words in writing
- Writing three to five-sentence paragraphs
- Writing stories with a beginning, middle, and end
- Writing and revising drafts of stories
- Sequencing of events in writing
Phonics
- Letter-sound correspondence
- Vowels and consonants
- Identifying long and short vowels
- Identifying consonant blends and consonant diagraphs
- Rhyming words
- Identifying syllables
- Recognizing spelling patterns to decode words
- Alphabetizing lists of words
- Identifying prefixes, suffixes, root words
Reading
- Engaging in oral reading activities
- Using punctuation cues when reading orally
- Identifying characters, setting, and plot
- Using expression when reading
- Improving fluency during oral reading
- Making predictions about context
- Answering who, what, where, when, and why when reading text
Math
- Addition and subtraction basic facts
- Geometric shapes
- Reading and producing graphs
- Measuring line segments using inches, centimeters, and feet
- Counting money
- Understanding time including numbering a clock face
- Recognition of even and odd numbers
- Adding 2-digit numbers with and without regrouping
- Identifying simple fractions
History
- Family units
- Christopher Columbus
- Use of maps and globes to identify places and routes
- American symbols and freedoms
- First Americans (Pilgrims and Native Americans)
- Identifying north, south, east and west
- Countries of the World
- Famous Americans
- Exploring community and neighborhood
- Field Trip to a local pumpkin patch and Mayfield Dairy
Science
- Senses
- Weather and Seasons
- Health and Safety
- Animals and their habitats (domestic and wild)
- Matter
- Sound
- The Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Plants
- Forces
Enrichment Classes
- Art
- Music
- Computer
- Spanish
- Physical Education
- Library