Language Arts / Reading                             

·  Identify letters, letter sounds, and sight words

·  Make predictions and connect parts of  a story to previous experience.

·  Recognize the elements of a story (main character, problem, solution).

·  Answer questions about the main idea for different types of literature.

·  Verbally express ideas in simple, complete sentences.

·  Listen attentively to an oral message for an appropriate length of time.

·  Retell a story that has been read or told out loud.

·  Develop a sense of phonemic awareness.

·  Formulate ideas through drawing pictures and writing words and sentences.

 ·  Identify beginning/ending sounds, blends, and rhyming words.

 

Science                                                            

·  Understand and apply concepts and processes of scientific inquiry.

·  Perform simple scientific experiments, asking appropriate questions, and

drawing reasonable conclusions

·  Life Science: Living/nonliving, needs of living things, how living things

grow and change, environments

·  Earth Science: Earth surface, care for earth, weather

·  Physical Science: Properties of objects, states of matter, sun/light, push/pull

·  Space and Technology: Day/night, position of sun, force/motion

 

Social Studies                                      

·  Identify attributes of responsible citizenship.

·  Describe the voting process.

·  Explain the difference between past, present, and future time.

·  Describe customs and holidays celebrated in cultures.

·  Recognize typical American symbols.

·  Use maps to locate places.

·  Gain an understanding of American Heroes.  Understand contributions of

Johnny Appleseed, Christopher, Columbus, Pocahontas, Martin Luther King Jr.,

Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington.

 

Mathematics                                                         

·  Identify, write, and use whole numbers in grade appropriate problem solving activities.

·  Organize and compare graphic data.

·  Count by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s;

·  Identify penny, nickel, dime, and quarter

·  Tell time to the hour

·  Begin basic calendar concepts: days of the week and months of the year.

·  Identify and solve addition and subtraction problems appropriate to this grade level.

·  Identify and compare characteristics of plane geometry figures (circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles).

·  Sort with attributes

·  Understand basic uses of money

·  Identify and produce basic patterns

·  Understand different types of  measurement.

 

Physical Education                          

·  Demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

·  Recognize the importance of healthy food.

·  Move the body in a safe manner (special awareness).

·  Imitate a given rhythm pattern.

·  Learn classroom routines; e.g. following directions and commands and  reporting to a designated area or space.

 

Fine Arts - Music                

·  Clap and move to basic, steady beat.

·  Sing a variety of songs to develop high, middle, and low voice.

·  Identify the difference between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

·  Identify the differences in instrumental and vocal tone colors

·  Recognize the difference between loud and soft music

·  Recognize the difference between fast and slow tempos

·  Demonstrate basic rhythms using locomotor movement (walking, hopping,

galloping, and skipping).

·  Recognize repetition and contrast in music

·  Experience duple and triple meter