Grade 1 Curriculum Overview Math Social Studies/ Language Arts Hebrew Language Judaic Studies: Judaic Studies: Science Arts Tefillah, Parasha, Hagim

Singapore Math - Primary Social Studies Reading Tefillah Hagim Mathematics - is used in Grades Community Fundations Units *Using the Tal Am Curriculum ● Framework for Tefillat Shaharit ● Hagei Tishrei K-5 ● Community Workers - ● Review of Letter-Keyword- ● Aleph Bet ● Tefillah As a Time to Speak to ○ Beginnings ● and of Essential vs. Important Sound for Consonants and ● Vowels God ○ Forgiveness Numbers up to 100 ● Meeting Needs & Wants Short Vowels ● Blending ● What is Tefillah Ishit? ○ Mitzvot and Brachot for ● Addition and Subtraction of 2- ● Taking Care of Our Community ● Review of Letter Formation ● Beginning Decoding ● Shevah, Bakasha, Hodaya each Hag digit Numbers without ● Goods & Services ● Digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck) ● In-depth Study of Modeh Ani, ● Hanukkah Regrouping ● Rights & Responsibilities ● Punctuation and Capitalization Vocabulary Hallelujah, and Sim Shalom ○ Miracles ● Number Bonds ● Making of a Good Citizen (Period, Question Mark, ● Classroom ● Tu B’Shvat ● Fact Families U.S. Holidays & Events Exclamation Point, Quotation ● Colors Parasha ○ Seasons - U.S. & Israel ● Common Shapes ● Thanksgiving Marks) ● Numbers ● Five Books of the Torah - Cycle ● Purim ● Place Value - ones and tens ● MLK Day ● Double Letter Spelling Rule (ff, ● Calendar of Reading Torah ○ Turning Everything Upside ● Comparing and Ordering ● Presidents’ Day ll, ss, zz) ● Seasons ● Mitzvot learned from specific Down Numbers to 100 ● Women’s History Month ● “Glued Sounds” (all, ang, ing, ● Question Words Parshiyot, i.e., Vayera - ● Pesach ● Word Problems ● Earth Day ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk) Hakhnasat Orhim ○ Seder ● Estimation ● Blending, Reading, Segmenting, Grammar ○ Hametz ● Length & Weight Science and Spelling Words with ng or ● Masculine/Feminine Israel ○ Story of Pesach ● Graphing ● Scientific Observation nk ● Singular/Plural The Israel Curriculum in Grades ○ Counting of the Omer ● Time ● Microbes ● Pluralization ● Verbs 1-5 is divided into four units to be ● Yom Ha’Atzmaut ● Money ● Sound & Light ● Consonant blends and Digraph ● Adjectives studied throughout the year: ○ Recognizing Map of Israel ● Fractions - ½, ¼ ○ Light & Shadows Blends (Masculine/Feminine) Yisrael Sheli, Tu B’Shvat, Yom ○ Flag of Israel ● Multiplication (intro.) ○ Light & ROYGBIV ● Blending and Reading words ● Present Tense Ha’Atzmaut, and Yom ○ Birthday of Israel ○ Reflect & Refract with up to Five Sounds Yerushalayim. The units look at ○ Language of Israel ○ Communicating through ● R-controlled Vowels (ar, or, er, Writing Israel through the lens of ○ Cities of Israel Light & Sound ir, ur) ● Block Writing geography, history, and culture. ○ Anthem of Israel ● Organism Study: Ladybugs ● Baseword and suffix with the ● Forming and Expanding The “Enduring Understandings” ● Shavuot ● Plants & Gardening suffixes -s, -ed, -ing, -es Sentences for all grades are as follows: ○ Receiving the Torah ● Plants & Eating Healthily ● Closed Syllable Concept with ● Beginning of Script Writing Israel Is an Independent State; ● Motion & Ramps Short Vowels Israel Is a home for Every Jew. ● Closed Syllable vs. Open Conversation Syllable ● Conversation Developing Yisrael Sheli ● “Vowel Teams” (ai, ay, ee, ea, around Vocabulary and ● Hopes and Dreams ey, oi, oy, oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, Grammatical Structures Taught ● What does it mean to be ue, ew, au, aw) independent? ● Long Vowel Sounds ● What is an independent state? ● Syllable Division Rules ● Community (class, school, local ● Compound Words community, Israel) ● High Frequency “Trick Words” ● Why/How is Israel my home? Literature Tu B’Shvat ● Fiction ● Shivat HaMinim ○ Read & Retell ● Planting Trees in Israel ( JNF) ○ Characters, setting, ● The Parts of the Tree problem, & solution Yom Ha’Atzmaut ○ Inferring author’s message ● Hay B’Iyar ● Non-Fiction (Informational ● The Map of Israel Text) ● The Flag, the Symbol of the ○ Using text features State, HaTikva ○ Identifying main topics & Yom Yerushalayim supporting details ● The Symbol of Yerushalayim ● Poetry ● The Kotel ● Mizrah Writing ● Narrative: list books, “Small Moments” ● Informational: “How-To’s,” Non-Fiction ● Opinion: Letter writing ● Poetry

Word Study The Fundations Program is Used for Spelling. ● Capitalization ● Ending Punctuation ● Basic Parts of Speech ● Commas in Lists ● Apostrophes in Contractions ● Spelling within Fundations Program