When it comes to elementary education that provides your child with excellence in all areas of
development, Hadi School is the right choice for your growing child. Our first grade elementary
program offers individualized instruction, which means that the child may work and be helped
on an individual basis. Individualized learning establishes more exclusive contact between the
child, the teacher, and the education. Our elementary programs operate from the understanding
that an important challenge at this developmental stage is for children to discover their places in
a group and within society as a whole. Thus, many of the activities at the elementary level take
place in a group, with children sharing working together, and exploring materials together.
The program permits a variety of approaches using dynamic and colorful manipulative materials,
which materialize abstract principles. These beautiful concrete materials are used throughout the
entire curriculum including math, reading, grammar, writing, spelling, geography, history, and
natural and physical science.
The elementary environment reflects a new stage of development and offers the following:
Integration of the arts, sciences, geography, history, and language that evokes the
imagination and abstraction of the elementary child Mathematics begins with concrete learning materials to understand basic concepts and moves to exploring more abstractly as the child's interests and abilities develop.
Language serves as a foundation for much of what the child learns in all other areas;
therefore, reading, writing, and oral expression are fundamentally important
Studies are integrated not only in terms of subject matter but in terms of moral learning as well,
resulting in appreciation and respect for life morals, empathy, and a fundamental belief in
progress, the contribution of the individual, the universality of the human condition, and the
meaning of true justice.
Here are the details:
Language Arts/Reading
- Decode unfamiliar words using context and picture clues, phonics, and prior knowledge
- Use reading strategies including picture clues and making predictions to clarify meaning
- Read aloud sharing a story to promote fluency and accuracy
- Recognize differences between prose and poetry and between fiction and nonfiction
- Use prewriting strategies and write for a variety of purposes (description, information,
explanation, persuasion, entertainment)
- Use a variety of resource materials to acquire information and use this knowledge in
letters, reports, and/or stories
- Use editing strategies to revise and clarify writing
- Follow oral directions
- Speak clearly at an understandable rate adjusting volume, tone, and inflection
Science
- Perform simple scientific experiments, asking appropriate questions and drawing
reasonable conclusions
- Describe similarities and differences among plants and use reasonable classification
systems
- Describe similarities and differences among animal groups using reasonable
classification systems
- Identify necessary conditions for good health and fitness
- Identify physical forces (e.g., magnetism) and describe their effect on physical objects
- Explain how the relationship between matter and energy can be used to help people do
work
- Explain relationships among weather, climate, and seasons
Social Studies
- Explain the need for rules and laws
- Identify the role of the good citizen in the classroom and the school
- Identify the roles of civic leaders
- Describe traditions important to the United States including democracy, individual rights,
concept of freedom, and representative government
- Describe the purpose and value of money
- Explain the contributions of individuals and groups who are featured in biographies,
legends, folklores, and traditions
- Describe the historical setting for various heroic actions
- Use basic maps to locate places associated with heroic actions
- Describe how the individual (the hero) and the group impact the community and society
Fine Arts - Visual
- Identify primary/secondary colors, simple movement, direction of line, and qualities of
texture
- Describe and create works of art that use line, shape, color, texture, form & balance
- Recognize the use of art elements that are repeated to create pattern.
- Use different sizes and shapes to show proportion
- Describe the central focus and meaning of a simple work of art
- Create simple two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art
Technology
- Draw, identify, and use the basic parts of a computer
- Use appropriate software (interactive books, word processing, paint/draw) with assistance
- Use a software program to make a sign with various font styles and sizes
Mathematics
- Identify and discuss place value in two digit numbers
- Expand work with addition and subtraction facts
- Select and perform computational procedures to solve problems
- Count and solve problems using a combination of coins
- Create and interpret graphs, charts, and tables
- Identify and describe solid geometric shapes (sphere, cone, cylinder, cube)
- Measure objects using standard and nonstandard units
- Perform simple multiplications
Physical Education
- Identify important reasons for being physically fit
- Perform locomotors and non-locomotors skills at different speeds, directions, and levels
while maintaining body control
- Plan and do activities for home promotion of fitness and health
- Demonstrate complex motor activities with musical
