First Grade Curriculum
Here is what we used for our first grade curriculum. We pulled our girls out of public school mid-year so we used this from November-May 2020.
SCRIPTURE STUDY
Book of Mormon: Come Follow Me 2020 - Activities by me :)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS:
Handwriting Level 2
Leveled Readers: Our local literacy center.*
Computer/App Games: Teach Your Monster to Read (free version)
MATHEMATICS
Computer/App Game: Prodigy (free version)
SCIENCE
Little 1st Grade Science Thinkers by Karen Jones (Teachers Pay Teachers) - I am using her year long curriculum.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Little 1st Grade Social Studies Thinkers by Karen Jones (Teachers Pay Teachers)
FINE ARTS
Private piano lessons
HEALTH EDUCATION
Tame that Temper by Jamie Wells (Outschool): February 2020 - I liked this course and would recommend it. It’s not amazing, but, for starters, it was something I felt was important and there just isn’t a lot of great easy resources for health education.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Home and play. Dance, soccer, swimming, ect.
ENGINEERING (STEM FOCUS)
Lego Early Engineering - we are enrolled with this course through My Tech High.
HOLIDAYS
For every holiday we stock up with holiday books from the library. And then here are some specifics we’ve used.
Thanksgiving: Little Social Studies: Pilgrims and Native Americans
Christmas: Christmas Science Experiments
Christ’s Birth - Aside from reading and watching about Christ’s Birth, we also visited Temple Square and viewed The Christ Child.
Valentines: Valentine’s Color By Number
St. Patrick’s Day: We just read about 3 leaf clovers and Saint Patrick - he is credited for teaching the 3 leaf clover as a symbol of the Trinity so this is something we discussed as we read about him and the 1st AOF and how we believe they are three separate beings, but with one purpose. Here is an article on that.
Easter/Holy Week: The Small Seed and CFM Easter (I love The Small Seed, but I also liked how CFM for Easter week tied in Christ’s visit to the Americas.