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Ms. Erica East, B.S.
First Grade, Room 111
Email: eeast@odysseycharter.net
Phone: (801) 492-8105  Ext:111
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First Grade Monthly Core Knowledge Curriculum Topics

August

Art
  • Primary Colors: red, yellow, blue
  • Secondary Colors: green, purple, orange
History/Geography
  • Geographical Terms and Features
    • Maps and Globes
    • Cardinal Directions: North, South, East, West
    • Oceans, Continents, Equator, Northern/Southern Hemisphere, North/South Pole
Social Studies
  • Basic Street and Fire Safety
  • Families
  • Community and Neighborhood
Music
  • Make New Friends
  • Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Poetry
  • Sing the Song of People
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Science
  • Matter
    • Atoms
    • Three States of Matter - Solid, Liquid, Gas
    • Water (all states of matter)

September

Art
  • Colors (Emotional Expression)
  • Complementary Colors
  • Tulips in Holland, Claude Monet
  • Arrangement in Gray and Black, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
History/Geography
  • Spatial Sense
    • Continent, Country, State, City, School
Social Studies
  • Utah State Symbols
Literature
  • Fables and Stories
    • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
    • The Maid and the Milk Pail
    • The Goose and the Golden Eggs
    • The Dog in the Manger
    • The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
    • The Fox and the Grapes
    • Medio Pollito
    • It Could Always Be Worse
    • The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    • All Stories Are Anansi's (and various Anansi stories)
    • Brer Rabbit Tales
Music
  • Music Can Tell a Story: Peter and the Wolf
  • Oh, John the Rabbit
  • Dry Bones
Poetry
  • Hope
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Wolf in sheep's clothing"
  • "Sour grapes"
  • "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
  • "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Science
  • Electricity
    • Static Electricity
    • Simple Circuits
    • Conductive and Nonconductive Materials
    • Safety Rules
  • Biography
    • Thomas Edison

October

Art
  • Line: straight, curved, zigzag, wavy, spiral, thick, thin, dotted
  • The Swan, Henri Matisse
  • Parade,Jacob Lawrence
  • Shell No. 1, Georgia O'Keefe
Literature
  • Different Lands, Similar Stories
    • Little Red Riding Hood
    • Lon Po Po
    • Pretty Salma
    • Tom Thumb
    • Thumbelina
    • Issun Boshi
    • Knee-High Man
    • Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch
    • Cinderella (and variations)
    • Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Music
  • Oh, Where Have You Been Billy Boy
Poetry
  • The Swing
  • Rope Rhyme
Sayings & Phrases
  • "There's no place like home."
Science
  • The Human Body
    • Body Systems
      • Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive, Circulatory, Nervous
    • Germs, Disease, and Preventing Illness
  • Biography
    • Louis Pasteur
    • Edward Jenner

November

Art
  • Art From Long Ago
    • Great Sphinx
    • Tutankhamun's Coffin
    • Bust of Queen Nefertiti
  • Shape
    • Stone City, Iowa, Grant Wood
History
  • Early Civilizations
    • Mesopotamia
    • Egypt
    • History of World Religions
Poetry
  • Table Manners (The Goops)
  • Thanksgiving Day
Sayings & Phrases
  • "The more the merrier."

December

Art
  • Art From Long Ago
    • Running Horses from Cave of Lascaux
History
  • Early American Civilizations
    • Hunters and Nomads
    • Maya, Aztec, and Inca
Music
  • Music Can Tell a Story: The Nutcracker

January

Art
  • History of Medicine in Mexico, Diego Rivera
  • La Pinata, Diego Rivera
History/Geography
  • Early Exploration
    • Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro
  • Modern Civilizations: Mexico
    • Culture
    • Geographical Features
Literature
  • The House at Pooh Corner
  • The Boy at the Dike
Music
  • Mozart & Music
  • Music Can Tell a Story: The Sorcer's Apprentice
  • La Cucaracha
  • Oh, Dear What Can the Matter Be
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Practice makes perfect."
  • "A.M. and P.M."
  • "Hit the nail on the head."
Science
  • Astronomy
    • The Solar System

February

Art
  • Texture
  • Pomo Basket
  • Hare, Albrecht Durer
Literature
  • Why the Owl Has Big Eyes
  • Literary Terms:
    • Drama, Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Actors, Actresses, Theater, Stage, Audience, Costumes, Scenery, Props
Music
  • Skip to My Lou
  • She'll Be Coming Around the Mountian
  • There's a Hole in the Bucket
  • For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
Poetry
  • My Shadow
  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  • I Know All the Sounds the Animals Make
  • Purple Cow
  • The Owl and the Pussycat
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Land of Nod"
Science
  • The History of the Earth
  • Animals and Habitats

March

Art
  • Texture
  • Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen Years, Edgar Degas
Literature
  • Fairy Tales
    • Sleeping Beauty
    • Rumplestiltskin
    • Rapunzel
    • The Princess and the Pea
    • The Frog Prince
    • Puss in Boots
    • Hansel and Gretel
    • Jack and the Beanstalk
Music
  • Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
  • Jazz
    • Louis Armstrong
    • When the Saints Go Marching In
  • Songs from Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
    • Brother, Come Dance with Me
    • I Am the Little Sandman
    • Children's Prayer
Poetry
  • Solomon Grundy
  • The Pasture
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Fish out of water"
Science
  • Animals and Habitats
    • Oceans and Undersea Life
    • Environmental Change and Habitat Destruction
    • Animal Classification
  • Investigating Plants and Plant Growth
  • Biography
    • Rachel Carson

April

Art
  • Portraits and Still Life
  • Irises, Vincent van Gogh
  • Apples and Oranges, Paul Cezanne
  • Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
  • Don Manuel, Francisco Goya
  • Self-Portrait, Vincent van Gogh
History
  • Early Explorers and Settlers: English Colonies in America
  • The Birth of Our Nation: From Colonies to Independence (The American Revolution)
  • Biography:
    • Benjamin Franklin
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • George Washington
Music
  • Frere Jacques
  • Yankee Doodle
Poetry
  • Washington
Sayings & Phrases
  • "Let the cat out of the bag."
  • "Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today."

May

History
  • Birth of Our Nation: From Colonies to Independence (The American Revolution)
    • Symbols and Figures
  • Frontier Explorers: Early Exploration of the American West
Literature
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  • Pinocchio
Music
  • America the Beautiful
  • Oh Susanna
  • On Top of Old Smokey
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