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Social Studies

- Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs
- Understanding and appreciating other cultures
- Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
- Relationship of the individual to the group

- Work and jobs
- Safety rules and symbols
- Basic human needs
- Self respect and self-awareness
- Awareness of others
- Location of home and school
- Diagram of home and school

Science

- Observation of everyday, familiar things
- Common animals and plants
- Classification of living things
- Farm animals
- Care of pets
- Like and unlike plants
- Indoor plants

- The Sun: Our principal source of energy
- Weather and seasons
- Light
- Colors
- Senses
- Earth, moon, stars, plants
- Simple measurements
- Beginning experimentation
- Temperature

Language Arts

- Reading-readiness activities
- Phonics
- Choral reading
- Listening to literature, music, poetry
- Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables
- Constructing visual images while listening
- Social listening
- Role play  
- Oral communication skills

- Following and giving directions  
- Paraphrasing and summarizing
- Organizing ideas
- Experience stories
- Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
- Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
- Beginning writing process
- Manuscript handwriting

Health And Safety

- Personal hygiene
- Good eating habits
- Good grooming
- Care of teeth

- Major body parts
- Physical fitness
- Safety to and from school

Mathematics

- Simple counting to 20
- One-to-one relationship
- Concepts of more, less, than, same
- Sequence of events
- Correspondence of quantities
- Ordinal-cardinal relationships
- Number-numeral relationship
- Recognition of basic sets

- Meaning of addition and subtraction
- Introduction to number line
- Estimation
- Elementary geometry (shapes)
- Calendar and clock
- Denominations of money
- Basic problem-solving strategies
- Basic chart and graph concepts

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