| Social Studies |
- Holiday, 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 |
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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, and flowers |
- Weather and seasons
- Day and night
- Solids, liquids, and gases
- Air and water
- Magnets
- Fire and temperature
- Sun, moon, stars, and planets
- Simple machines
- Beginning experiments |
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| Language Arts
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- Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary
- Reading informally: labels, and signs, for example
- Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
- Creating stories and poems
- Telling favorite stories
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Enunciation and pronunciation
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- Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity
- Book reports and critiques
- Discussions skills: taking part in group discussion
- Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
- Beginning spelling
- Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
- Manuscript handwriting
- Handling books
- Using table of contents
- Development of 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 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 |
