First Grade Monthly Core Knowledge Curriculum Topics
August
Art
- Primary Colors: red, yellow, blue
- Secondary Colors: green, purple, orange
- Geographical Terms and Features
- Maps and Globes
- Cardinal Directions: North, South, East, West
- Oceans, Continents, Equator, Northern/Southern Hemisphere, North/South Pole
- Basic Street and Fire Safety
- Families
- Community and Neighborhood
- Make New Friends
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Sing the Song of People
- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
- 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
- Spatial Sense
- Continent, Country, State, City, School
- Utah State Symbols
- 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 Can Tell a Story: Peter and the Wolf
- Oh, John the Rabbit
- Dry Bones
- Hope
- "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."
- 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
- 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
- Oh, Where Have You Been Billy Boy
- The Swing
- Rope Rhyme
- "There's no place like home."
- The Human Body
- Body Systems
- Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive, Circulatory, Nervous
- Germs, Disease, and Preventing Illness
- Body Systems
- 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
- Early Civilizations
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
- History of World Religions
- Table Manners (The Goops)
- Thanksgiving Day
- "The more the merrier."
December
Art
- Art From Long Ago
- Running Horses from Cave of Lascaux
- Early American Civilizations
- Hunters and Nomads
- Maya, Aztec, and Inca
- Music Can Tell a Story: The Nutcracker
January
Art
- History of Medicine in Mexico, Diego Rivera
- La Pinata, Diego Rivera
- Early Exploration
- Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro
- Modern Civilizations: Mexico
- Culture
- Geographical Features
- The House at Pooh Corner
- The Boy at the Dike
- Mozart & Music
- Music Can Tell a Story: The Sorcer's Apprentice
- La Cucaracha
- Oh, Dear What Can the Matter Be
- "Practice makes perfect."
- "A.M. and P.M."
- "Hit the nail on the head."
- Astronomy
- The Solar System
February
Art
- Texture
- Pomo Basket
- Hare, Albrecht Durer
- Why the Owl Has Big Eyes
- Literary Terms:
- Drama, Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Actors, Actresses, Theater, Stage, Audience, Costumes, Scenery, Props
- 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
- My Shadow
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- I Know All the Sounds the Animals Make
- Purple Cow
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- "Land of Nod"
- The History of the Earth
- Animals and Habitats
March
Art
- Texture
- Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen Years, Edgar Degas
- Fairy Tales
- Sleeping Beauty
- Rumplestiltskin
- Rapunzel
- The Princess and the Pea
- The Frog Prince
- Puss in Boots
- Hansel and Gretel
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- 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
- Solomon Grundy
- The Pasture
- "Fish out of water"
- 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
- 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
- Frere Jacques
- Yankee Doodle
- Washington
- "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
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Pinocchio
- America the Beautiful
- Oh Susanna
- On Top of Old Smokey