1st Grade
(1A) Miss Jessica Decembrino
(1B) Miss Tiffany Alexopoulos holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master’s Degree in Pre-K/ Primary education from Nova Southeastern University, FL. She has been an educator since 2003.
FAITH FORMATION HIGHLIGHTS
• Celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus
• Learn about the lives of saints
• Pray daily by saying learned prayers as well as spontaneous prayer and song
• Attend school Masses and Prayer Services
• Learn to share our time, talents and treasure with those in need
• Class retreats
Learn about Catholic virtues and how to live a virtuous life.
MATH
• Sadlier-Oxford
• Daily lessons begin with hands-on activities
• Discover clues to solve word problems
• Practice flash cards and speed tests to learn math facts
• Daily class work, homework (no H.W. on Fridays), manipulatives and cooperative learning to reinforce concepts and skills
LANGUAGE ARTS
Sadlier Langauge Arts
• Reading-understand characters, compare and contrast, read to comprehend, learning sight words (“Words to Know”), discover an author’s purpose, read fiction and non-fiction, make inferences and predictions
Wilson Fundations continues from Kindergarten as students' knowledg eof phonics is enhances with blends, vowel teams
Reading groups are held every day, focusing on individual achievement. Students move along the Fountas and Pinnell scale to land on the letter J Before leaving first grade.
• Sadlier Reading Series
• Phonics-learn decoding skills to discover new words
• Spelling-correlate to weekly stories, apply to story writing
• Writing-create stories in a variety of genres: biographies, make believe, etc.
• AR-Accelerated Reader-read a book independently then take a short quiz which is computer generated to build Independent Reading Level
SPECIALS
• Spanish-once weekly
• Music-twice a week
• PE twice a week
• Art-twice a week
• Library-once a week
• Computer Lab-once a week
• *Ballet is optional (once a week during the school day with a one time recital fee)
• *Violin is optional during the day (for an additional fee)
TECHNOLOGY
• Use of SMART Board enhances all lessons throughout the day
• Use of iPads
• Use of BENQ Board
SCIENCE / SOCIAL STUDIES
New Science series from: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New Social Studies Series along with Scholastic News.
• Weekly lessons, incorporated into weekly reading lessons
PROJECTS
• Arctic Animal Diorama Project
• Book in a Bag Book Report
• In-house Spelling Bee competition
EVENTS
• STREAM day, Field Day, Class Retreat, Fall Festival, Holiday celebrations
• Christmas Program
• St Patrick’s Day Program
FIELD TRIPS
Visits to be announced
NUMEROUS CLUBS & EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Available after school for first-graders.