1st Grade

Welcome to 1st Grade!

Miss Riccardi is the first grade teacher. This is her twenty-fourth-year teaching at Trinity. She has also taught computers, third grade, fourth grade, and sixth, seventh and eighth grade ELA. Miss Riccardi's undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science in Finance and she worked in the financial industry prior to education. She has a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Leadership. Her certifications are Elementary Education N-6, Reading K-12, Business Education K-12, School Building Leader and School District Leader.


First grade is a year when students are developing and building their foundational skills. Religion class includes learning about our Catholic Church and the Catholic community to which we belong. Students continue to learn the prayers of our faith, about the lives of saints, and how to care for all of God’s creation. Within the English Language Arts curriculum students are learning to decode, build their sight word vocabulary, develop fluency skills, and comprehend written material. They are also developing their writing skills which includes letter formation, sentence structure, and paragraph formation. The mathematics curriculum includes developing strategies to add and subtract and learn basic facts, counting to 120, skip counting by 2,5, and 10, problem solving, measurement, and geometry. In the Science curriculum students learn concepts of physical science and life science. They have lab experiences that teach them to observe, experiment, record, and analyze. Within the Social Studies curriculum, students gain an understanding and appreciation for the world in which we live. This includes how to be good citizens, studying the past and present, and learning about the communities where people live.