- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

- 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.