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First Grade
Art
Students refine fine-motor skills and hand/eye coordination through various media. Encouraging creative thinking and problem solving is always a priority. Students focus on concepts like symmetry to connect what they learn in math class. Literature is often used as introductions for art lessons.
Art class is an opportunity to support other subject material learned in academic classes.
Counseling
Students learn social skills, problem solving, fruit of the Spirit, and character traits.
Language
The six interrelated focuses are: reading, vocabulary, grammar, student writing, spelling, and penmanship. The objective is to foster strong decoding skills, progress toward reading fluency, build vocabulary, develop listening and speaking skills, introduce the principles of spelling, and begin the practice of good penmanship. The principle rules and mechanics of the English language foster the need to write effectively. Through a careful balance of grammar and writing, students obtain the skills instrumental to personal expression.
Math
Children master numbers through 100 and begin to understand place value. They are able to add and subtract to 20 using manipulatives, at first, and then using addition and subtraction strategies and finally through memorization (“Mad Minute” quizzes). They begin to identify geometric shapes, congruence, and symmetry. They learn how to tell time and how to count money using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. They also learn to measure using non-standard units, inches, and centimeters. By the end of first grade, most students are able to translate words into math by practicing solutions to word problems.
Physical Education
Children build on what they learned in kindergarten, adding to their skills set and incorporating cooperative games in their activities. In the spring semester, students participate in DA Runners every Wednesday, training for the ING Kids Rock Marathon, which coincides with the Country Music Marathon. Students log their first 25 miles in class, then run their last mile at LP Field on Sunday afternoon of the marathon weekend.
Science
Includes content in life science, earth science, and physical science. Emphasis is put on building skills of inquiry in order to enable children to solve problems, evaluate their solutions, and plan their own investigations. Children learn how to observe, measure, compare, classify, make models, communicate, infer, put things in order, predict, investigate, and draw conclusions.
Spanish
Brief conversations about everyday situations are performed at the end of each instructed topic that is taught. Age-appropriate praise songs, prayers, and Bible verses are taught throughout the academic year.
Technology
Kindergarten skills are reinforced and new skills are developed. As students begin logging on to the school network, they learn about usernames and passwords. They develop greater graphic skills and multimedia skills as they use animated objects and sound in projects. Students begin a keyboarding readiness program, and they practice using two hands for keying and locating letters, numbers, and special characters. Their word processing skills develop as they begin inserting graphics and learn about alignment.
Students refine fine-motor skills and hand/eye coordination through various media. Encouraging creative thinking and problem solving is always a priority. Students focus on concepts like symmetry to connect what they learn in math class. Literature is often used as introductions for art lessons.
Art class is an opportunity to support other subject material learned in academic classes.
Counseling
Students learn social skills, problem solving, fruit of the Spirit, and character traits.
Language
The six interrelated focuses are: reading, vocabulary, grammar, student writing, spelling, and penmanship. The objective is to foster strong decoding skills, progress toward reading fluency, build vocabulary, develop listening and speaking skills, introduce the principles of spelling, and begin the practice of good penmanship. The principle rules and mechanics of the English language foster the need to write effectively. Through a careful balance of grammar and writing, students obtain the skills instrumental to personal expression.
Math
Children master numbers through 100 and begin to understand place value. They are able to add and subtract to 20 using manipulatives, at first, and then using addition and subtraction strategies and finally through memorization (“Mad Minute” quizzes). They begin to identify geometric shapes, congruence, and symmetry. They learn how to tell time and how to count money using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. They also learn to measure using non-standard units, inches, and centimeters. By the end of first grade, most students are able to translate words into math by practicing solutions to word problems.
Physical Education
Children build on what they learned in kindergarten, adding to their skills set and incorporating cooperative games in their activities. In the spring semester, students participate in DA Runners every Wednesday, training for the ING Kids Rock Marathon, which coincides with the Country Music Marathon. Students log their first 25 miles in class, then run their last mile at LP Field on Sunday afternoon of the marathon weekend.
Science
Includes content in life science, earth science, and physical science. Emphasis is put on building skills of inquiry in order to enable children to solve problems, evaluate their solutions, and plan their own investigations. Children learn how to observe, measure, compare, classify, make models, communicate, infer, put things in order, predict, investigate, and draw conclusions.
Spanish
Brief conversations about everyday situations are performed at the end of each instructed topic that is taught. Age-appropriate praise songs, prayers, and Bible verses are taught throughout the academic year.
Technology
Kindergarten skills are reinforced and new skills are developed. As students begin logging on to the school network, they learn about usernames and passwords. They develop greater graphic skills and multimedia skills as they use animated objects and sound in projects. Students begin a keyboarding readiness program, and they practice using two hands for keying and locating letters, numbers, and special characters. Their word processing skills develop as they begin inserting graphics and learn about alignment.
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Sandy BrownDavid Lipscomb College - B.S.-Elementary Education/Social Studies
Vanderbilt Univ - M.Ed.-Early Childhood Education -
Davidson Academy
