Grade 1

Language – Aims & Content

Aims: Competence in language will enable students to:

• Use a variety of oral language appropriately and with increasing confidence
• Read for both pleasure and information with increasing independence
• Write confidently, with developing legibility and fluency
• Write for a variety of purposes and develop an understanding of different story structures

Content: By the end of grade 1 students are expected to:

Oral Communication

• Use a variety of oral language appropriately
• Talk about thoughts, feelings and opinions
• Work in groups and discuss ideas
• Listen with increasing concentration and consideration
• Pick out main events and relevant points
• Increase their ability to anticipate and predict

Written Communication: Reading

• Read simple texts with confidence and pleasure
• Use a range of strategies to decode text
• Discuss stories demonstrating an increasing awareness of character and plot
• Understand and respond to ideas and feelings expressed
• Begin to use reference books and dictionaries independently
• Participate in daily reading for independent and instructional purposes

Written Communication: Writing

• Write confidently with developing legibility and fluency
• Write for a variety of purposes
• Write simple sequenced stories with a beginning, middle and end
• Begin to plan edit and review their own writing
• Begin to spell high frequency words accurately
• Write legibly in a consistent style
• Write daily for a variety of purposes

Visual Communication

• Understand that signs and symbols carry meaning
• Begin to read a range of signs in the community
• Read and use texts with different types of layout
• Search for, record and present information using a variety of media

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes: By the end of 1st grade students are expected to:

Shape and Space

• Use what they know about about 3-D shapes to see and describe 2-D shapes
• Sort and label 2-D and 3-D shapes using appropriate mathematical vocabulary: sides, corners, circle, sphere, square, cube
• Create 2-D shapes
• Find and explain symmetry in their immediate environment
• Create and explain simple symmetrical designs
• Give and follow simple directions, describing paths, regions and boundaries of their immediate environment and their position: left, right, forward and backward

Content

Data Handling

• Sort and label objects into sets
• Discuss and compare data represented in teacher generated diagrams: tree, carroll, venn
• Collect, display and interpret data for the purpose of finding information
• Understand the purpose of graphing data
• Create a pictograph and simple bar graph from a graph of real objects and interpret data by comparing quantities: more, fewer, less than, greater than
• Discuss, identify, predict and place outcomes in order of likelihood: impossible, unlikely, likely and certain

Measurement

• Estimate, measure, label and compare using non-standard units of measurement: length, mass, time and temperature
• Understand why we use standard units of measurement to measure
• Use a calendar to determine the date, and to identify and sequence the days of the week and months of the year
• Estimate, identify and compare lengths of time: second, minute, hour, day, week, month
• Read and write the time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour

Pattern and Function

• Create, describe and extend patterns
• Recognize, describe and extend patterns in numbers: odd and even, skip counting, 2s, 5s and 10s
• Identify patterns and rules for addition: 4+3=7, 3+4=7
• Identify patterns and rules for subtraction 7-3=4, 7-4=3
• Model with manipulatives, the relationship between addition and subtraction: 3+4=7, 7-3=4

Number

• Read and write numbers using the base 10 system, to 100
• Count (in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s) compare and order numbers to 100
• Estimate quantities to 100
• Use mathematical vocabulary and symbols of addition and subtraction: add, subtract, difference, sum, +, -
• Read, write and model addition and subtraction to 20
• Automatically recall addition and subtraction facts to 10
• Explore and model multiplication and division using their own language/methods
• Use fraction names (half, quarter) to describe part and whole relationships
• Select and explain an appropriate method for solving a problem

Curriculum Overview - Grade 2

Language – Aims & Contents: By the end of grade 2 students are expected to:

Oral Communication

• Appreciate the power of oral communication
• Use speech with increasing responsibility
• Participate appropriately in discussion
• Use language with increasing accuracy, detail and range of vocabulary
• Use oral language to articulate, organize and reflect on learning

Written communication: Reading

• Read a variety of fiction and non fiction books
• Select books appropriate to their reading level
• Be interested in/show appreciation of a variety of literary styles
• Read daily and for sustained periods

Written communication: Writing

• Write independently, with confidence and fluency
• Write for a range of purposes, both creative and informational
• Spell high frequency words accurately and use a range of strategies to spell complex words
• Write in a consistent legible style

Visual Communication

• Respond to viewing experiences orally and in writing
• Begin to make informed choices in their personal viewing experiences
• Use electronic media to find information

Mathematics

Learning Outcomes: By the end of grade 2 students are expected to:

Shape and Space

• Combine and transform 2-D shapes to make another shape
• Create symmetrical patterns, including tessellation
• Understand an angle as a measure of rotation by comparing and describing rotations: whole turn, half turn, quarter turn, north, south, east and west on a compass

Data Handling

• Discuss, compare and create sets from data that has subsets using tree, carroll, venn and other diagrams
• Collect and display data in a bar graph and interpret results
• Use probability to determine mathematically fair and unfair games and to explain outcomes

Measurement

• Estimate, measure, label and compare using formal methods and standard units of measurement: length, mass, time and temperature
• Select appropriate tools and units for measurement
• Model addition and subtraction using money

Pattern and Function

• Analyze patterns in number system up to 100
• Identify patterns and rules for multiplication and division
• Model with manipulatives, the relationship between multiplication and addition
• Model multiplication as an array
• Model and understand number patterns to solve problems (missing numbers)

Number

• Count, compare and order numbers up to 1000
• Count in 3s, 4s, 6s and explore other numbers
• Use number patterns to learn multiplication tables: 1s, 2s, 4s, 5s, 10s
• Use and describe multiple strategies to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems
• Compare fractions using manipulatives
• Reasonably estimate answers: rounding and approximation
• Select and explain an appropriate method for solving a problem

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