The Wonder of Grade 1: Full Year
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CA$440.00
CA$440.00
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Welcome to Year 1! What an exciting place to be!
You are at the beginning of the Grade School journey. Your child is experiencing a sense of oneness and unity with the world around them at this age. They are experiencing life through their feelings. They have a strong connection to you, and will happily follow, imitate and learn from you and the adults around them. Children at this stage soak up all of the sensations in their environment, as they do not have an experience of an inner and outer world yet. They are united with everything. Choosing what to surround your child with plays a huge role in how relaxed and comfortable they feel in themselves. Enjoy finding ways to create and maintain beautiful calm spaces for your child to most optimally learn in.
Daily Wonder wants your child to feel that the world is good and beautiful. The year 1 curriculum brings examples of this throughout the year. Fairy Tale themes show the good and evil aspects of life, yet good always prevails. Your child will flourish through Daily Wonder!!
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Year Overview
This purchase includes 10 months of curriculum for Grade 1 as well as access to our members only content with supporting documents, videos, resources and community.
Month 1: The Wonder of Patterns
Students will be guided to experiment with the building blocks of numeracy and literacy in the form of geometric shapes and lines. Multicultural story telling will form the basis from which lessons will emerge. This first unit forms the foundation for academic learning for the 6-year-old and will cover ideas around personal responsibility, harnessing creativity, and placing learning at the heart of the human experience.
Month 2: The Wonder of Consonants
Students will be guided to discover the shapes (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) of 10 consonants through observation and story. Letters will emerge for them as they did for humans long ago, from out of the environment. Multicultural stories will form the basis from which lessons will emerge.
Month 3:
Wonder of Numbers
Students will be guided to experience the natural world around them in the discovery of number and pattern within nature. Indigenous stories and Nature Stories will form the basis from which lessons will emerge. Good habits for schoolwork rhythms will begin to take hold as students work creatively through the unit.
Month 4: The Wonder of Consonants 2
Students will return to the discovery of the final 11 consonants through observation and story. Graphemes and Phonemes will emerge from the environment. Multicultural stories will form the basis from which the lessons will emerge. Students will take hold more clearly of the Phonological (sounding out) stage of reading.
Month 5: The Wonder of Math
Students will discover the four processes of math (+ - x /) through imaginative stories. The memorable characters of each process will indicate the ‘behaviour’ of the symbol. These memorable stories will stay with your child and support a clear connection to the processes of number/amount transformation.
Month 6: The Wonder of Vowels
If consonants are the ‘story letters’ that describe the outside world, vowels are the ‘feeling letters’ that describe the inside world. What sounds do we express when we see a baby? A bear? A vista? This unit will bring the vowels into the mix of consonants and continue work with phonics rules. Multicultural stories will form the basis of this unit.
Month 7:
Wonder of Skip Counting
Students will further develop their skills with the four processes and continue to work with their sense of number. They will begin to strengthen their sense of grouping and pattern through activities focused on skip counting.
Month 8: The Wonder of Words
Students will continue to work with decoding (sounding out) and encoding (spelling) as well as some of the following phonics rules: digraph consonants (sh, ch, th, wh, ng, oo), blends (s blends, r blends, l blends), r controlled vowels, inflectional endings, silent e, compound words, and soft c and g. Multicultural stories form the basis of this unit.
Month 9: The Wonder of Shapes
In this unit students will consider shapes and their attributes. Counting will remain a focus and will support the work of organizing shapes. Students will link their work with shapes to the beginning of working with graphs in the form of collecting data about things in nature.
Month 10: The Wonder of Habitats
In this final unit students will spend much time outside. Students will study the creatures that have emerged with the Spring plants and consider their housing. The cycle of night and day will be considered and contemplated as it relates to the creatures and plants in the forest/garden/yard/beach.
Month 1: The Wonder of Patterns
- Math
- Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Creative Thinking
- Social Awareness and Responsibility
Students will be guided to experiment with the building blocks of numeracy and literacy in the form of geometric shapes and lines. Multicultural story telling will form the basis from which lessons will emerge. This first unit forms the foundation for academic learning for the 6-year-old and will cover ideas around personal responsibility, harnessing creativity, and placing learning at the heart of the human experience.
Month 2: The Wonder of Consonants
- Lang Arts
- Social Studies
- Positive Personal & Cultural Identity
Students will be guided to discover the shapes (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) of 10 consonants through observation and story. Letters will emerge for them as they did for humans long ago, from out of the environment. Multicultural stories will form the basis from which lessons will emerge.
Month 3:
Wonder of Numbers
- Math
- Language Arts
- Creative Thinking
Students will be guided to experience the natural world around them in the discovery of number and pattern within nature. Indigenous stories and Nature Stories will form the basis from which lessons will emerge. Good habits for schoolwork rhythms will begin to take hold as students work creatively through the unit.
Month 4: The Wonder of Consonants 2
- Lang Arts
- Social Studies
- Positive Personal & Cultural Identity
Students will return to the discovery of the final 11 consonants through observation and story. Graphemes and Phonemes will emerge from the environment. Multicultural stories will form the basis from which the lessons will emerge. Students will take hold more clearly of the Phonological (sounding out) stage of reading.
Month 5: The Wonder of Math
- Math
- Language Arts
- Creative Thinking
Students will discover the four processes of math (+ - x /) through imaginative stories. The memorable characters of each process will indicate the ‘behaviour’ of the symbol. These memorable stories will stay with your child and support a clear connection to the processes of number/amount transformation.
Month 6: The Wonder of Vowels
- Language Arts
- Science
- Critical Thinking
If consonants are the ‘story letters’ that describe the outside world, vowels are the ‘feeling letters’ that describe the inside world. What sounds do we express when we see a baby? A bear? A vista? This unit will bring the vowels into the mix of consonants and continue work with phonics rules. Multicultural stories will form the basis of this unit.
Month 7:
Wonder of Skip Counting
- Math, Science
- Language Arts
- Personal Awareness & Responsibility
Students will further develop their skills with the four processes and continue to work with their sense of number. They will begin to strengthen their sense of grouping and pattern through activities focused on skip counting.
Month 8: The Wonder of Words
- Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Communication
Students will continue to work with decoding (sounding out) and encoding (spelling) as well as some of the following phonics rules: digraph consonants (sh, ch, th, wh, ng, oo), blends (s blends, r blends, l blends), r controlled vowels, inflectional endings, silent e, compound words, and soft c and g. Multicultural stories form the basis of this unit.
Month 9: The Wonder of Shapes
- Math, Science
- Language Arts
- Creative Thinking
In this unit students will consider shapes and their attributes. Counting will remain a focus and will support the work of organizing shapes. Students will link their work with shapes to the beginning of working with graphs in the form of collecting data about things in nature.
Month 10: The Wonder of Habitats
- Science
- Language Arts
- Social Awareness & Responsibility
In this final unit students will spend much time outside. Students will study the creatures that have emerged with the Spring plants and consider their housing. The cycle of night and day will be considered and contemplated as it relates to the creatures and plants in the forest/garden/yard/beach.