Blossom and Root Curriculum: Scope and Sequence!
First Grade
Language Arts, Reading, Creativity, and Geography
(Recommended for ages 6 - 9, depending on child’s reading level. Child should recognize
all letters, know all basic letter sounds, and be familiar with basic consonant-vowel-
consonant words like “cat” and “dot” before beginning this level.)
•Fairytales, nature stories, and folktales from around the world !
•Practicing printing with copywork selections (optional)!
•Letter blends (beginning and ending)!
•Reviewing basic CVC word families (such as “-ad” and “-og”)!
•Phonograms ai, ee, oa, aw, ow (the long ō sound), ea!
•Short words that end in “o” (such as “go” and “no”)!
•The sounds of “-itch” and “-ight”!
•Basic silent e words (such as make, role, etc.)!
•Recognizing and reading a variety of “sight words” (commonly-occurring words with rules we
have not learned yet, making it easier to read from a variety of sources)!
•Reading short sentences !
•Reading simple poems!
•Reading short passages!
•Reading short books (optional)!
•Narrating back simple story lines!
•Exploring literature weekly through journaling and a variety of creative, hands-on activities !
•Locating various countries of the world on a map (optional)!
•Exploring a variety of countries of origin of world folktales (optional)!
Science (appropriate for ages 5 - 12)
•The formation of Earth and our solar system
•Layers of the Earth
•Plate tectonics
•Earthquakes and volcanoes
•Crystals
•Minerals
•The three rock types
•The rock cycle
•Weathering and erosion
•Identifying rocks and minerals
•Human uses for rocks and minerals
•Fossils
•Landforms and bodies of water
•Layers of the atmosphere
•Weather and climate
•Using science to predict weather
•Using nature’s signs to predict weather
•Clouds
•The water cycle
•Weather: wind, rain, snow and ice, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes
•Rainbows
