First Grade
In first grade we build upon the rhythms established in the kindergarten, extending to a full day of joyful learning imbued with wonder, creativity, music and movement.
Topics introduced in first grade include:
- Pictorial and phonetic introduction to the letters of the alphabet
- reading from writing
- rhythmic poems
- speech exercises
- form drawing of curves, straight lines and patterns
- qualities of numbers and elements of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- counting, Roman numerals
- fairytales
- foreign language
- songs, games, and poems
- pentatonic recorder
- seasonal songs
- wet-on-wet painting using the three primary colors
- knitting using two needles
- beeswax modeling using scenes from fairy tales and simple figures
- the wonder of nature through simple observation
- nature studies from stories in an imaginative manner
- circle games
