1st Grade

Just Thinking and Choosing, with a mountain theme, provides cutting and pasting practice on most page spreads.  The oval shape and ordinal numbers are introduced.  Exercises include counting; learning about health and safety; recongnizing sequence of shapes and pictures; identifying opposites, group similarities, object usage, and analogies; and learning about Guatemala. This series is designed to follow the Preschool A-B-C series and to aid in giving helpful initiative in building scholastic foundations for preschool children.  These 64-page workbooks provide excellent opportunities for parent-child interaction.  Each book in the new series uses a different habitat theme including woodlands, mountains, deserts, grasslands, and the ocean, giving a geographic awareness and exalting God as Creator.  

Learning More and More has an oceans theme. Teaching Aims:

• Practice skills of thinking, coloring, counting, tracing, writing, drawing, cutting, pasting, and matching.
• Review and use eleven colors: eight basic colors, white, pink, and gray.
• Introduce mixing the three primary colors to make other colors.
• Count by 1s and 2s to 100 (or more). Write numbers 0 through 12.
• Identify numbers 0 to 20 in dot-to-dot drawing.
• Introduce pennies. Introduce hours on the clock.
• Review six shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, and oval.
• Identify sequence of shapes. Draw shapes and simple pictures.
• Match capital and small letters and words by visual discrimination.
• Trace and write a few letters correctly.
• Hear some rhyming sounds and a few initial consonant sounds.
• Learn about birds and animals that live in or near the oceans.