PARENT CURRICULUM INFORMATION

Grade 1 - Term 4
S.Y. 2022 - 2023

Dear Parent/Carer
Outlined below are the areas to be taught this term. We aim to cover the content described. We will be
teaching our objectives in line with the CP Framework & our SLI curriculum & not necessarily covering
everything from a textbook. We will use a range of resources & have a variety of activities to help your
child learn the key concepts. We hope this information will be useful when your child discusses their
school work with you.

ENGLISH MATHEMATICS

Genre 1: Poetry – Using the Senses Length: 8 weeks

(Onomatopoeia) Resources: Collins International
Length: 3 weeks Mathematics Student Book 2 and
Workbook 2, Maths Module, Websites
Main Objectives:
Topic: Review of Numbers and Time
● Introduce Onomatopoeia Length: 1 week
● Learn relevant and simple poems Main Objectives:

● Count on and backwards to 100

Genre 2: Instructions ● Count on and backwards by 10
Length 3 weeks ● Find numbers that are 1 more, 1 less,
10 more, 10 less
Main Objectives: ● Read time by the hour and half hour
● Know the parts of a book (e.g. title ● Apply number facts to solve simple
page, contents) number puzzle
● Introduce Instruction Topic: Geometry
● Write a simple instruction for a Length: 3 weeks
purpose Main Objectives:
● Show awareness that texts for ● Follow and give instructions involving
different purposes look different, e.g. position, direction and movement
use of photographs, diagrams, etc. ● Recognise whole, half and quarter
turns both clockwise and anti-
Conventions of Grammar (COG): clockwise
● Pronouns: ● Identify and create reflective
Personal Pronouns symmetry in simple shapes
● I or Me ● Sort, name and describe 2D and 3D
Genre 3: Simple Recounts shapes referring to their properties
Length: 2 weeks Topic: Measurement
Main Objectives:
● Introduce Recounts
● Read samples of simple recounts
● Write a simple recount (sequence of
sentences)
Conventions of Grammar (COG):
● Adjectives:
Colour Words
● Number Words
● Adjectives that Compare
(Comparative)
● Synonyms and Antonyms
Resources: English Module, CPE Learner’s
Book and Activity Book
The students will have:
● 1 Continual Assessment
● 4 Spelling Tests
● 1 Project
● 1 Semester Exam
Length: 1 week
Main Objectives:
● Recognize and use all coins and
notes
● Find totals of coins and notes to pay a
given amount and work out change
Topic: Data Handling and Problem Solving
Length: 2 weeks
Main objectives:
● Understand the use of a pictograph
and block graph Understand and use
a Venn and a Carroll diagram Solve
word problems involving data handling
The students will also have:
● 1 Project
● 1 Continual Assessment
● 1 Semester Exam
 SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES

Resources: Cambridge Primary Science

Topic 1:
Learner’s Book and Activity Book, Science Different
module, handouts and worksheets Landforms
Length: 1 week
Topic 1: Forces Resources: SS Module, Geography
● Explore, talk about and describe the Objectives:
movement of familiar things • Identify different landforms
● Recognise that both pushes and pulls • Describe each landform
are forces • Draw each landform
● Recognise that when things speed up,
slow down or change direction there is
Topic 2: Bodies of
a cause
Water Length: 1 week
Resources: SS Module, Geography
Topic 2: Sound
● Identify sources of sound Objectives:
● Know that we hear when sound enters • Identify and describe different bodies
our ear of water
● Recognise that a sound travels from • Understand that the islands of
a source it becomes fainter Indonesia are surrounded by
water
Skills: • Name the five oceans of the
● Explore and observe in order to world
collect evidence to answer GP: Water in My World
questions • Understanding the
● Try to answer questions by importance of water
collecting evidence through • Identify ways to conserve
observation water
● Ask questions and contribute to
discussion about how to seek Topic 3: Five Main
answers Islands of
● Suggest ideas and follow instructions Indonesia Length:
● Make predictions 1 week
● Model and communicate ideas Resources: SS Module, Map
Objectives:
The students will also have: • Identify the names of the five main
● 1 Project islands of Indonesia
● 1 COA • Use a map to locate the main islands
● 1 Semester Exam of Indonesia
● Practical Activities • Use words like: hill, road, river,
near, far, north, south, east and
west to describe places

Topic 5:
 Natural Resources
GP: Where our food comes from
Length: 1 week
Resources: SS Module, Geography
Objectives:
• Know what natural resources are
• Understand how land and water can
be used
• Make a group report of these
different natural resources
• Identify sources of food
• Conduct research from
primary sources to complete
investigation
• Practice analysis skills using
a pictogram survey

Topic 6: Plants and Animals in

Different Landforms and Bodies of
Water Length: 2 weeks
Resources: SS Module, Geography
Objective:
● Name the plants and animals found
in different landforms and water
forms

The students will also have:

1 Project
1 Continual Assessment
1 Semester Exam
 IS
Length: 8 weeks
Resources: Module
Topics :Reading, Writing, Speaking &
Listening
Main Objectives:
Reading:
● Read some verbs such as:
bekerja,bermain,menonton,bernyanyi
,berlibur
● Learn to read short and simple
sentences with intonation
Listening and Speaking:
● Listen to a short story and respond
● Give opinion about the story
● Sing a children song
Writing:
● Form simple sentences with given
words or pictures
Grammar:
● Understand the question words such
as apa/ apakah, siapa, di mana,
mengapa, kapan dan bagaimana
(5W1H) and how to answer
● Understand numbers 1-50
The students will also have:
● Assignments
● 3 Spelling Tests
● Homework
● 1 Project
● 1 Continual Assessment
● 1 Semester Exam
CARE
Topic 1: My Growth in First Grade (Self-
reflection)
Resources: Module, Bible
Length: 2 weeks
Main Objectives:
● Introduction to the CARE Portfolio
Spiritual Growth:
● I can tell you my present relationship
with God.
● I can tell you how I can put God at
the center of my life.
Topic 2: Coping, Attitude and Behaviour
Resources: Module, Meeks and Height
Length: 2 weeks
Main Objectives:
● I can tell you what I can do now that I
couldn’t do when I started school.
● I can tell you how I have grown and
changed
● I can tell you the areas I need to
improve
Topic 3: With Others and Community
Resources: Module
Length: 2 weeks
Resources: CARE Module
Main Objectives:
● I can tell you how I treat others.
● With Others and Community
● I can tell you how I can improve in my
relationship with others
The students will also have :
● Lessons, Attendance and Classwork
● Mini Project
● Bible Verse Recitation
 MANDARIN

Length: 8 weeks
Resources: Chinese Made Easy for Kids Textbook 1 and Module
Units Covered: Lesson 13-16

- Phonics:
Main Objectives:
● Read phonetic symbols with different intonations correctly
● Differentiate the pronunciation of phonetic symbols
● Identify intonations through listening

-Strokes:
Main Objectives:
● Count the strokes of characters
● Be able to identify and write the strokes

-Radicals:
Main Objectives:
● Learn different radicals and the meaning of each radical: feeling 忄、 rain 雨、rice
米、metal 钅、bamboo ⺮、 utensil⽫、insect⾍、dead body⼫、door 门、household
户、cliff 厂、shelter⼴、ritual 礻
● Recognize different radicals in characters
● Write out the radicals to match the meanings given

-Characters:
Main Objectives:
● Learn to pronounce the characters about foods, stationery, rooms and home
furniture
● Learn to write the characters
● Understand the meanings of the characters
● Be able to form a sentence with the characters

-Speaking:
Main Objectives:
● Introduce his/her favourite food
● Learn about stationery
● Able to describe their houses’ rooms

-Writings:
Main Objectives:
● Write Chinese characters neatly
● Learn to write simple sentences using:
喝、吃、没有、还、两间 、喜欢

The students will also have:

● 2 Spelling Tests
● 1 Project
● 1 COA (writing) & 1 Semester Exam
 ICT
Topic 4: iCode
Length: 8 weeks
Resources: www.scratch.mit.edu , Typing
Club (www.typingclub.com)
Main objectives:
● Understand the essence of coding
● Learn the importance of computer
language
● Define a command and how to utilize
commanding script
● Know how to do a presentation in
front of audience (including tips to
prepare oneself for presentation)
Key skills:
● Utilising script to command an object
● Importing new object/sprite
● Utilising sounds and costumes tools
● Importing backdrops
● Downloading/uploading saved file
● General presenting presentation
skills
The students will also have:
Typing Exercise on Home Row Keys
(ASDFJKL;) and G, H
PE
Topic 1: Gymnastics Basic 2
Length: 4 weeks
Resources: PE Activities by James and
Maxwell M. Landey and PE National
Programme for Grade 1
Objectives - Knowledge:
● Explain about gymnastic actions
movements and sequences
Key Skills:
● Show basic gymnastics actions
● Describe how they feel after doing
exercises
● Plan and repeat simple actions
Topic 2: Basic Athletics (Walking and
Running )
Length: 4 weeks
Resources: PE Activities by James
and Maxwell M. Landey and PE
National Programme for Grade 1
Objectives - Knowledge:
● Understand the meaning of signs
and signals by doing gestures
Key Skills:
● Move with body gestures
● Make signals with hands, fingers,
and head Move my body into
different positions
 ART
Topic 1 : Cool Cat Newspaper Art
Length: 3 meetings
Main Objectives:
● Describe creative ways to use waste
materials.
● Design and construct an upcycled
product from waste materials.
● Explore media, materials, tools,
technologies and processes.
● Select appropriate media, materials,
tools, technologies and processes for
a purpose.
● Celebrate artistic experiences and
learning.
Key Skills:
● Manifest creativity
● Develop cutting and pasting skills
Materials:
A4 black paper, newspaper, pencil, eraser,
glue, origami paper
Topic 2: Mineral Water Bottle Pencil
Holder
Length: 4 meetings
Main Objectives:
● Design and construct an upcycled
product from waste materials.
● Explore media, materials, tools,
technologies and processes.
● Select appropriate media, materials,
tools, technologies and processes for
a purpose.
● Celebrate artistic experiences and
learning.
Key Skills:
● Develop cutting skills
● Develop creativity to make craft
MUSIC
Topic: Singing Length: 2 weeks
Resources: Children Songs
Objectives - Knowledge:
● Understand 6/8 time signature
● Understand the meaning of Christian
songs
Objectives -Skills:
● Sing on correct pitch and 6/8 time
signature
● Sing on a steady tempo
● Sing Christian songs
Topic: A Rhythm Workout
Length: 2 weeks
Resources: Music Theory
Objectives - Knowledge:
● Understand and feel inner rhythm
● Recognise the beat of a metronome
while and clap hands according to the
beat
Objectives - Skills:
● Physically coordinate a steady pulse
and rhythm by stamping and clapping
● Explore and share this rhythm with
several friends
Topic: More Notes and Rest
Length: 2 weeks
Resources: Music Theory
Objectives :
Knowledge:
● Learn the rhythmic feel of a dotted
half-notes, whole notes, and quarter
rests through clapping while saying
syllables and words
● Write dotted half-notes, whole notes,
 and quarter rests accurately
Materials:
Empty mineral water bottle (size 1.5 liter), Objectives - Skills:
white Fox glue, decoration (e.g. ribbon, ● Clap and step according to all the
beads, coloured corrugated paper, etc.), rhythms learned in many
paints combinations
● Write notes and rest in measures of
three and four beats

Instruments: Percussion Instruments

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MATHEMATICS JANUARY BRAZA JRB - 27 March 2023

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CARE CHRISTINA K. BRAZA CKRB 26/3/23

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