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Social
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Holidays and festivals
Patriotic celebrations
Communities in other lands: past and present
Family and family history
Families around the world
Neighborhoods |
Community services and helpers
Shelters, stores, and food
Citizenship and social responsibility
Interdependence of people
Basic geography: oceans, continents
Map skills |
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Science |
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Useful and harmful animals
Life cycle
Birds and insects in winter
Animal babies
Animal defense of themselves
and their young
Plant and animal food
Dinosaurs and other extinct animals
Food chain
Plant reproduction and growth
Habitats and homes
Weather and its effects on earth |
Effects of the seasons
on the lives of people, animals, & plants
Climate
Water cycle
Air and atmosphere
Magnets and forces
Gravity
Earth and sky
Sun, moon, planets
Simple constellations
Exploring space
Scientific method and
scientific inquiry |
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| Language
Arts |
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Reading silently for purpose
Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
Use and meaning of quotation marks in
reading
Story development: beginning, middle, end
Simple book reviews
Listening skills
Organizing ideas and impressions
Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
Using dictionary guide words
Vocabulary development |
Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
Methods of word attack
Ways to study spelling
Simple punctuation and capitalization
Refining manuscript handwriting
Writing independently in manuscript form
Brief and simple letters and journals
Narration, description, letters, poetry
Increasing skill in handling
books: table of contents, and index |
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| Health
and Safety |
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Personal cleanliness
Dental hygiene
Basic food groups |
Communicable diseases
Preventive measures against disease
Neighborhood safety |
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| Mathematics |
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Counting, reading, writing to 1,000
Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's
Ordinal numbers to 10
Zero as a place holder
Using sets and number facts
Addition and subtraction facts to 20
Basic multiplication and division facts
Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations
Multiplication properties of 0 and 1
Place value through 100's |
Fractions in daily life
Decimal numeration system
Basic concept of ratio
Geometry puzzles and activities
Estimation
Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape,
temperature
Telling time and using the calendar
Handling money (coins)
Problem solving
Charts and graphs |
