St. Paul Lutheran School

Putting Faith in Education

· A Christ centered environment.

· High academic expectations.

· Hands on learning.

· The Accelerated Reader program.

· Lots of opportunity to read.

· Acceptance and encouragement.

What your child can expect in 1st Grade at St. Paul

First Grade Topics

 

Religion

· May know God, especially His seeking and forgiving love in Christ

· May respond in faith and grow into Christian maturity

· See themselves and others as the reconciled, redeemed children of God and individual members of Christ’s body, the church

· Live happily in peace with God, themselves and their fellow human beings

· Express their joy in worship of God and in loving service to others

· Value all of God’s creative work in His world and the church

· Witness openly of Christ as the Savior of all people

· Participate actively in God’s mission to the church and the world

· Live in Christian hope with blessed assurance of eternal life in heaven through Christ Jesus, our Lord

 

Language Arts

· Be able to recognize and distinguish letters and words from pictures

· Write all letters of the alphabet both upper case and lower case

· Orally blend word parts into words

· Break a word into phonemes or sentence into individual words

· Decode phonemes into recognizable words and associate with those words

· Write a word or sentence when it is given orally

· Write words or sentences from visual or mental cues

· Encode words by determining letters representing phonemes

· Blend phonemes into a word

· Develop a love for reading and will read for pleasure

 

Math

· Analyze and solve problems using skills and strategies

· Relate subtraction and addition

· Record and show data in different ways

· Read and make a picture graph

· Read and make a bar graph

· Read and write numbers up to 100

· Count by twos, fives and tens

· Count and order numbers

· Add two or three numbers with sums through 12

· Add and subtract numbers up to 20

· Identify the value of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters

· Count groups of coins and write the total value

· Describe positions of objects in space using positional words

· Identify halves, thirds and fourths

· Add two or three numbers with sums to 20

· Measure lengths in customary and metric units

· Compare the weight or mass of an object to one pound or one kilogram

· Compare capacities and solve problems using skills and strategies

· Order events and compare times

· Read and write time to the hour and half hour using a clock

· Use a calendar

 

Science

· Understand that trees have similar parts such as roots, leaves (needles), a trunk and branches

· Understand that trees belong to the group of living things called plants.  Plants have may parts in common and each part has a specific function enabling the plant to grow and survive

· Understand that plants serve many useful purposes and provide many useful things

· Understand that people change as they grow.

· Understand that animals grow and change in a variety of ways

· Understand that nonliving things, such as the earth, are also changing

· Understand that we can hear sounds and see things because sound travels through the parts of the ear and light travels through parts of the eye

· Understand that vibrating objects make sound and sounds travel from their source in all directions through solids, liquids and gases

· Understand that when light shines on an object, the light can be absorbed, bent or refracted or it can pass through the object

· Understand factors such as wind, air temperature and precipitation can be used to describe weather conditions

· Understand that air, wind and sunlight interact constantly, producing the water cycle that affects cloud formation and weather

· Understand that weather information is used to make decisions every day

 

Social Studies

· Understand that people are alike and different and that therefore each person is unique

· Understand that all people have many kinds of feelings

· Understand that all people are part of a family

· Understand that people work at home and away from home to meet their needs and wants

· Understand that families have many places that are important to them

· Understand that stories are an important part of our heritage

 

1st Grade Teacher Mrs. Cindy Mallory

 

This is Mrs. Mallory’s 18th year teaching first grade at St. Paul.  She previously taught kindergarten at Mt. Morris Elementary school for 2 years and Remedial Reading at Kings Elementary for 4 years.  Mrs. Mallory is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has a Master’s in Education at Rockford College.

To Contact Us:

Phone: 815-562-6323

Fax: 815-561-8074

E-mail: stpaul@rochelle.net