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Building Foundational Reading, Writing, Math, and Science Skills

1st First Grade Virtual School Student Calvert's 1st Grade curriculum continues to build on and add to skills your child learned in Kindergarten. Over the course of the year, you'll see your child develop into an increasingly independent reader, writer, and critical thinker.

Using detailed Lesson Manuals, you'll guide your child as he/she:

Develops a fuller range of phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, and fluency skills.
Expresses ideas in his/her own words through projects and writing opportunities woven throughout the curriculum.
Builds a stronger foundation in math skills and concepts using research-based math methods.
Feels our country's past come alive with read-aloud narratives about well-known explorers, political figures, inventors, and leaders in American life.
Investigates how light helps us see and sound travels over distance.

Everything You Need to Teach Your 1st Grader

Calvert provides everything you need to successfully educate your child at home:

Best-of-class texts, online resources, and manipulatives from top education publishers.
Lesson Manuals with daily lesson plans and step-by-step instructions.
An online learning platform, the Calvert Teaching Navigator, that provides 24/7 access to texts, manuals, interactive activities, assessments and progress tracking tools, and more.
Free support from state-certified teachers who help with curriculum questions, alternative teaching approaches, and keeping students on-track.

Discover What Your Child Will Learn In 1st Grade

English Language Arts

Students gain independence in reading, learn more sight words, and become more adept at distinguishing vowel sounds. They write a narrative about their favorite day and create a persuasive poster about their favorite treat.

Math

Students continue learning addition and subtractionÑnow with two digit numbers. They explore measurement, charts, graphs, time, money, and solid shapes. Students learn concepts by writing the biography of a number and creating a 3D cake design.

Science

First graders investigate, analyze and interpret data, construct explanations and design solutions to demonstrate grade-level proficiency. Students learn to predict movement pattern of objects in the sky and then compare the sky where they live to that of students around the world.

Social Studies

This course introduces beginning economics and good citizenship. By interviewing a family member, students come to understand how our country has changed over time. They learn about the many uses of maps by making a "Personal Atlas to My Life."

Physical Education

Young learners focus on ways to be more active. Topics of study include exercise safety, nutrition, and the values of cooperation and teamwork. Students learn age-appropriate motor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills.

Health

First graders develop a basic understanding of the aspects of health. Topics of study include personal safety, nutrition, communication, disease prevention, basic anatomy, and physiology.

Learn More About Our Program

Contact us for enrollment information.
Call us at 573-472-2581.

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Stemming from its beginnings more than 100 years ago at the prestigious Calvert School in Maryland, the Calvert curriculum has been used by hundreds of thousands of students schooling at home in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries around the world. Today, Calvert’s curriculum is used worldwide in homes, virtual schools, and blended learning environments.

Take a look at Calvert and you’ll find an impressive list of families and alumnae. Among so many others, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck, and political commentator William F. Buckley were at one time or another all Calvert students.

With Calvert, you will receive proven and time-tested curriculum, recognized for excellence by educators and parents alike as the finest curriculum available today for families who make the choice to school at home.

Providing an extraordinary foundation of knowledge at your fingertips

Calvert’s fully accredited curriculum provides a fundamental platform for your child to thrive educationally. It combines classroom-tested materials, teacher-approved lesson plans, and proven educational methods. Fun and engaging projects build creative thinking and problem-solving skills. With a focus on fundamental skill development, your student will be encouraged to explore, discover, and excel, while developing a strong foundation of learning concepts that will lead to academic success for years to come.

This engaging and comprehensive curriculum is crafted by specialists, all of whom are former educators. It utilizes the best text offerings available along with online learning tools and resources that make it easy to provide your child with a dynamic, fun, and enriching learning experience.

The Calvert curriculum includes comprehensive lesson plans, which Calvert parents will tell you are the “gold” of the Calvert experience. With complete daily plans for all subjects, these indispensable resources provide detailed, step-by-step instructions, a list of daily online resources and books, as well as countless tips and helpful hints gleaned from decades of experience. Calvert lessons are available in both printed and online versions.

Calvert is accredited by the Commission on Elementary Schools (a division of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools) and approved by the Maryland Department of Education, so you can be assured that your child is presented with relevant and exceptional instructional content.

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