First Grade Curriculum Overview

First Grade Curriculum Overview

Our First Grade Curriculum Overview is the perfect resource for homeschool families preparing to teach first grade (pdf - subscription required).

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Table of Contents

The First Grade Child

  • Parent Preparation
  • Signs of First Grade Readiness
  • Online Resources

How First Grade is Different From Kindergarten

  • Reading Steiner
  • Teaching Through Imagination

Curriculum Highlights

  • Storytelling Resources
  • Nursery Rhymes

The School Day

  • Sample Daily Schedule
  • Head/Heart/Hands
  • Starting Your Day
  • The Question of Textbooks
  • The Main Lesson Book

Setting up the School Room

  • The Atelier

Journaling and Assessment

  • Remedial Work
  • Consultants

The First Grade Curriculum

  • Preparing for a Unit
  • Keeping a Plan Book
  • Setting Up Your Plan Book

Sample Plan Book Pages

  • Binder Cover Page
  • Weekly Plan Page
  • Daily Plan Page
  • Journaling Page

Good Curriculum Planning

First Grade Skills & Understandings Checklist

Resources

  • Form Drawing
  • Beginning Recorder
  • Quality of Numbers
  • Learning to Knit
  • Handwriting
  • Equals the Raven
  • Math Gnomes
  • Environmental Studies
  • Singing
  • Physical Education
  • Miscellaneous

FAQs

Suggested Booklist

Appendices

This document is 138 pages long. Please note that although it contains much information on what and how to teach in first grade, this is an overview; it does not include daily plans.


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