This is the FirstGrade Pacing Guide2016-2017targeting specific Standards of Learning for all the different core areas. Adjustments in this schedule may occur if more time is needed to master the material or as inclement weather days alter the schedule.

Nine
Weeks /

*Social Studies

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*Science

/ *Reading & Literature /

*Writing

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Math

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Special

1st /

School/Class Rules

*L.A. SOL 1.10 Nonfiction books throughout the year. / Senses (1.1)
*L.A. SOL 1.10 Nonfiction books throughout the year. /

Alphabet

*SOLs 1.1- 1.14 are targeted daily all year long. / Informative/Ex-planatoryWriting*SOLs 1.12., 1.13, 1.14 ongoing / Pre-Assessment of Number & No. Sense K.2 & K.11 / Bus Safety
Labor Day
(9/5/16)
Pledge of Allegiance / Color Words
(1.8) / Pictures & labels
Legible printing
1.12 a, b, c ongoing / Addition & Subtraction
Facts (1.5, 1.6, 1.18) / Constitution
Day (9/17/16)
Families / Monarchs (1.5) / Nursery Rhymes(1.1.c) / Complete
Sentences
(1.13 a-g ongoing) / Count by 1’s to 100 (1.1)
Houses & Homes / Main Ideas / **Counting forward by / Fall
Neighborhoods
(1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 1.10a-f) / Eric Carle
(1.9 a-h) / 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s to
100, as well as, down from 30 by 1’s, is an ongoing process all year long. (1.2)
C. Columbus & Columbus Day (10/10/16) / Matter (1.3) / ABC Order
(1.11a) / Informative/Ex-planatoryWriting*SOLs1.12 & 1.13 / Addition/ Subtraction
Fact Families to 10-12 (1.5, 1.6, 1.16, 1.18) / Safety
Columbus Day (10/10/16)
2nd / Timelines / Solid, Liquid, & / Dictionary Usage (1.11b) / Complete
Sentences(1.13)
Election Day (11/8/16)
/Patriotic Symbols
Veterans’ Day (11/11/16) / Gases / Norman
Bridwell -Clifford Books / Punctuation (1.13 e)
Using Facts / Graphs (1.14, 1.15)
USA & D.C. / (1.9a-h) / Making lists / Pumpkins
Pilgrims/Native Amer. / Count by 10’s (1.2) / Calendars
(1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4a,b,c,d, 1.5, 1.11, 1.12)
Thanksgiving / Rocks/Fossils / Hansel & Gretel (1.9a-h) / Persuasive / Opinion Writing / Review & Assessment of SOLs (1.5, 1.6, 1.18) / Turkeys
Past/Present /Future / Day/Night (1.6) / Gingerbread Stories (1.9a-h) / *SOLs1.12 & 1.13 / Geometry (1.12, 1.13)
Count by 5’s (1.2)
Holidays & Customs / Seasonal Changes
(1.7) / Jan Brett
(1.9 a-h) / Place Value (1.1b) Measurement 1.9 & 1.10
3rd / Martin L. King, Jr.
(1.1) / Light & Shadow / Poetry
(1.4 a-d) / Persuasive / Opinion Writing
Fact & Opinion / Patterns (1.16, 1.17)
Addition/Subtraction Facts to 12 (1.8, 1.9) / Chinese New Yr. (1/28/17)
Virginia/Richmond / Nonliving/living / *SOLs1.12 & 1.13 / Ordering Numbers & No. Patterns (1.2, 1.4 a, b, & 1.17) / Groundhog’s Day (2/2/17)
Geography Good Citizens
(1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5,1.6, 1.10, 1.12) / Life Processes / Poetry
1.14 / Estimating & Comparing Numbers (1.2, 1.4 a, b)
Abe Lincoln / Plants & Animals
(1.4/1.5) / Addition & Subtraction Facts to 18
(1.5, 1.6, 1.18)
Count by 2’s (1.2) / Valentine’s
Day (2/14/17)
George Washington
President’s Day / Dr. Seuss
( 1.4 a-d & 1.9 a-h)
4th / George W. Carver / Natural Resources
(1.8) / Narrative Writing
*SOLs1.12 & 1.13 / Addition & Subtraction Facts to 18
(1.5, 1.6, 1.18) / Earth Day
(4/22/17)
Ben Franklin / Money (1.7 a, b)
Jobs/Goods & Services / Count backward from 30 (1.2)
(1.2, 1.3, 1.7) / Fractions (1.3)
Economics
Maps/Symbols
Continents/Oceans / Force/Motion &
Energy (1.2)
Magnets / Fiction & Nonfiction Stories
(1.10 a-h) / Narrative Writing
*SOLs1.12 & 1.13 / Time (1.8)
Equality (1.18)
Addition & Subtraction of 2 digit Numbers
(1.5, 1.6, 1.18) / Memorial
Day (5/29/17)
Eleanor Roosevelt
July 4th / 2 Digit Add./Subtr.
(1.5, 1.6, 1.1.8) / Flag Day
(6/14/17)
(1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7,1.8, 1.9) / Review, Enrichment, Remediation

Please visit the Virginia Department of Education website: for a current description of the SOLs that our first grade children are expected to master.