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Holidays, traditions, and customs
Our American Heritage
Different cultures at different times
Family, school, neighborhood, community
Farm and zoo |
Neighborhood helpers
Jobs and careers
Social skills and responsibilities
Basic geography terms
Making and reading a simple neighborhood map |
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| Science |
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Grouping and classification
Living and nonliving things
Animals
Pets
Farm animals
Zoo and circus animals
Woodland animals
Common birds
Plant and animal habitats
Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers |
Weather and seasons
Day and night
Solids, liquids, gases
Air and water
Magnets
Fire and temperature
Sun, moon, stars, planets
Simple machines
Beginning experimentation
Scientific method and
scientific inquiry |
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| Language
Arts |
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Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary
Reading informally: names, labels, signs
Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
Creating stories and poems
Telling favorite stories
Organizing ideas and impressions
Enunciation and pronunciation
Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity |
Book reports and critiques
Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion
Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
Beginning spelling
Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
Manuscript handwriting
Handling books
Using table of contents
Development of a class newspaper |
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| Health
and Safety |
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Personal hygiene
Dental health
Good eating habits
Exercise and rest |
Diseases
Common cold
Dressing for weather and activity
Safety rules to and from school |
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| Mathematics |
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Counting and writing to 100
Counting by 2's to 40
Simple number patterns
Beginning ordinal numbers
Using 10 as a basic unit
Simple properties of zero
Simple properties of sets
Beginning addition and subtraction facts
Number-line use
Place value and numeration
Concepts of quantity and size |
Concepts of equality and inequality
Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers
Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately
Estimation
Geometric patterns and figures
Basic customary and metric measurement
Recognizing time: clock and calendar
Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter
Solving simple word problems
Basic probability and chance
Basic chart and graph concepts |
