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English-Language Arts

The English-Language Arts curriculum emphasizes the integration of reading, writing, spelling, listening, and speaking skills.

Reading Skills:

• Phonics:  alphabet recognition, reading readiness skills, comprehension strategies, letter-sound recognition

• Rhymes

• Consonant and vowel placement

• Fantasy and realism

Writing:

• D'Nealian printing

• Neatness

• Complete sentences

• Verb forms, plurals, articles

• Subject and predicate

• Sequence

• Capitals

• Staying on the topic

• Punctuation

• Creativity

Spelling:

• Weekly lists

• Above grade level bonus words

• Dictation

• Invented spelling (phonetic)

• Applied spelling

Listening:

• Develop auditory discrimination and sound-symbol correspondence (letter associated with sound)

• Listen attentively

• Listen to gain information

• Listen for enjoyment (sounds and ideas in stories and poems)

• Develop comprehension

• Listen and follow directions

Speaking:

• Sharing

• Reading aloud

• Verbal expression of creative ideas

History-Social Studies

Developing social skills and responsibilities

• Importance of responsible classroom participation

• The rights and opinions of others

• The rules by which we must all live

• Values and ideas important in a democratic society

• The environment

• Families and how they change

Expanding geographic and economic worlds

• School

• The community

• Needs and how they are supplied by the neighborhood and community

• Interrelationships of the neighborhood and community

• How the change in landscape and land-use turns residential neighborhoods into commercial areas and rural areas into urban communities

• Goods and services

• Wants and needs

• Workers, jobs, products

• The importance of transportation

Maps and Globes

• Interpretation of maps and map keys

• Relative location

• Water and land

• Mountains, hills, valleys, islands, rivers, lakes, oceans

• Natural resources

• Seven continents and four oceans

Developing awareness of cultural diversity, now and long ago

• People in other countries

• American holidays

• Our country and its symbols and leaders

• Life now as compared to life long ago

Mathematics

Problem solving:

• Free exploration of manipulatives

• Numbers and patterns

• Open and closed figures

• Sorting and classifying

• Comparing

• Symmetry

Number:

• Relationship and connection to symbolic representation

• Numeration and number properties

• Place value through tens

• Skip counting by twos, fives, tens

Addition and subtraction of whole numbers:

• Facts 0-20

• Memorizing facts 0-10

• Counting on and counting back

• Fact families to 12

Geometry:

• Solid figures

• Plane shapes

• Symmetry

Fractions:

• Equal parts

• Halves, thirds, fourths

Measurement and probability:

• Length:  inches, feet and centimeters

• Understanding perimeter

• Estimating capacity, weight and temperature

Time

• Minutes, hours,  half hours, AM, PM

• Calendar skills

Money

• Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters

Calculator

• Addition and subtraction

Computer

• Orchard Program

Algebra

• Missing addends

• Missing signs

• Missing numbers in equations

Statistics

• Read graphs comparing several items

• Symbolic graphs comparing several items

• Making a talley

Science

Life around you

• Survival and reproduction of animals

• Diversity of plant life on earth

• Plants and animals share the environment and need one another

Earth and sky

• Moon, sky, stars, shadows

• Geologic processes that cause the earth's surface to continually change

• Earth's crust and its composition

• Movement of astronomical bodies causes daily and seasonal changes

• Weather and clouds

Matter and magnets

• All matter takes up space

• Solids, liquids, and gases

• Magnets have poles, attract or repel one another, and attract objects made from iron or steel.

Human body

• Fingerprints are all unique

• Stages of life

• We change as we grow

• Staying healthy, keeping clean