Lincoln School Curriculum - First GradeKindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade

Language Arts

  • Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking.
Reading
  • Construct meaning from print, pictures, and words
  • Make connections to themselves, their experiences and books
  • Predict, recall and summarize stories, information and experiences
  • Identify character, setting, problem and solution in a story
  • Acquire vocabulary and multiple word meanings
  • Read independently
  • Expand repertoire of reading strategies (concepts of print, graphophonic analysis, print structures, and structural analysis)
Listening and Speaking
  • Retell and react to stories
  • Follow simple directions
  • Listen for specific purposes
  • Develop and expand vocabulary by speaking and listening
  • Express feelings
  • Retell stories
  • Contribute to group discussions
 Writing
  • Develop handwriting skills
  • Use phonetic and standard spelling
  • Use pictures or words to develop topic
  • Use basic sentence structure and expand with descriptive words
  • Begin to use time/order transitions (first, the next day, in summer)
  • Begin to use capitalization and punctuation
  • Begin to write independently
Mathematics
  • Demonstrate reading and writing numbers to 110+
  •  Compare and order sets of objects and numbers and express their relationship as greater than, equal to, or less than
  • Use manipulatives to model basic addition and subtraction facts to 18
  • Demonstrate skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's, starting at various points
  • Explore two and three dimensional shapes with manipulatives, constructing, drawing, and relating to objects in the environment
  • Identify measuring tools (ruler, tape measure, scale, thermometer, clock, calendar) and explore constructing and interpreting simple graphs with objects and later explore constructing pictographs and bar graphs.
Science
  • Identify the characteristics of and classify living and non-living things
  • Identify pushes and pulls as forces and forces associated with magnets
  • Identify ways in which simple machines work as a system and how they are used
  • Observe and describe sky objects
  • Predict patterns of changes such as moon phases
  • Identify sun as source of light and heat necessary for survival
  • Make observations, conduct investigations and arrange data using scientific methods
  • Use tools of technology to do work and use the design process to solve problems
Social Studies
  • Understand family and community
  • Understand student's place in the world
  • Recognize and appreciate differences between people
  • Learn about jobs and people's needs, wants and choices
  • Learn about the first Americans
  • Develop basic understanding of citizenship and voting
  • Study American holidays and symbols
  • Begin to use charts, timelines, graphs, calendars, atlases, maps and globes
World Languages
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Recognize basic language patterns (e.g., forms of address, questions, case)
  • Respond appropriately to simple commands and ask simple questions with prompts
  • Imitate pronunciation, intonation and inflection including sounds unique to the target language
  • Recognize the written form of familiar spoken language
  • Infer meaning of cognates from context
  • Copy/write words, phrases and simple sentences
  • Describe people, activities and objects from school and home
  • Use common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave-takings
  • Identify and demonstrate one or more art forms (e.g., Japanese origami, Spanish flamenco) representative of areas where the target language is spoken
Physical Education/Wellness
Students will have instructional and physical activities in:
  • Movement skills
  • Low organized games
  • Rhythmic activities
  • Manipulative activities and eye-hand coordination
  • Gymnastics and tumbling
  • Sport related activities
  • Fitness education
  • Social/emotional growth
Health
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Know that major body parts work together
  • Understand the importance of exercise
  • Identify the components of wellness
  • Recognize the importance of safety
  • Learn appropriate steps to ensure their safety and health
General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in:
  • Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis, and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness
  • Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving
  • Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings
  • Spontaneous creation of original music
  • Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations of music
  • Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight
Fine Arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand  how works of art are produced
  • Create individual works of visual art
  • Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and  civilizations, past and present