First Grade Curriculum Map
September
Language Arts Theme:
Back to School,
Friendship, Wild Things
Skills: Routines, Daily
5, Learning to ask
questions when reading,
What is a Scientist?
Events: Baseline
Assessments,
Curriculum Night
October
Language Arts Theme:
Winds of Change
Skills: cause and effect
Language Arts Theme:
Life Lessons
Science:
Habitats, Food Chains
Balance and Motion
(Foss)
Social Studies Theme:
The Wampanoag and
the First Thanksgiving
(Storypath)
Skills: Writing stories
with detail
Social Studies: Begin
“The First Thanksgiving”
(Storypath)
Science: Balance and
Motion continues
Events: End of
Trimester assessments,
parent-teacher
conferences,
Thanksgiving
celebration
Language Arts Theme:
American Contributions
Language Arts Theme:
Around the World With a
Glass Slipper
Events: Valentine’s
Day, 100th
Day of
School,
January
Language Arts Theme:
Amazing Animals cont.
March
Science: Air and
Weather (Foss) Cont.
December
Language Arts Theme:
Amazing Animals
February
Social Studies:
Geography (13 colonies
– 50 states)
November
Social Studies: The
Parade – multicultural
studies (Storypath)
Science: Designing
Leprechaun Traps
Events: St. Patrick’s
Day, End of Trimester
Assessments
April
Science: New Plants
(Foss)
STEM: Designing Hand
Pollinators
Social Studies: The
Parade cont. (Storypath)
Events:
SAT-10,
Spring
Break
Science: Energy, Heat
and Light
Social Studies: Family
Celebrations
Events: Nutcracker,
Holiday Store, Holiday
Concerts, classroom
celebrations
May
Science: Air and
Weather (Foss)
Social Studies: Families
and Neighborhoods
(Storypath)
Events: MLK Jr., Open
House, Ski School
June
Language Arts Theme:
Charlotte’s Web Book
Club
Language Arts Theme:
Finishing Charlotte’s
Web
Science: The Farm
Integrated Unit
New Plants (Foss) cont.
Social Studies: Getting
Ready for 2nd grade!
Social Studies: Urban
vs. Rural, land use
codes, Farms:
Yesterday and Today
Events: Mother’s Day
Events: Assessments,
Farm Fair, Charlotte’s
Web Performance
First Grade Curriculum Map
President’s Day, MidWinter Break, Ski
School