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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:

• Phonemic awareness, letter/sound relationship
• Blend sounds to make words
• Recognize consonants and vowels
• Develop print awareness-concept of letter, word, sentence, paragraph
• Identify parts of a book and their functions
• Understand author's purpose, draw conclusions, generalize
• Distinguish realism/fantasy or fact/non-fact/fantasy
• Identify sequence of events
• Recognize story elements (character, plot, setting, theme)
• Compare and contrast
• Recognize cause and effect
• Summarize and analyze

Writing:

• Develop skill in gross and fine motor functioning and hand/eye coordination
• Gain increasing control of penmanship (proper posture, paper position, and grip)
• Write letters of the alphabet, upper and lower case
• Write numerals 0 through 10 correctly
• Write words and sentences with proper spacing between letters in a word and words in a sentence
• Capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
• Write notes, captions, messages that move left to right on a line, top to bottom on a page

Spelling:

• Phonograms (word families)
• Vowels (short, long, digraphs, diphthongs)
• Consonants (single, double, digraphs, silent)

Listening:

• Show an interest in and respond to text read aloud
• Expand vocabulary by listening
• Listen for various purposes
• Understand and retell spoken messages
• Respond appropriately to questions, directions, etc.

Speaking:

• Expand vocabulary by speaking
• Participate in rhymes and songs
• Participate in conversations and discussions
• Speak to a group in an appropriate way

History-Social Studies

Developing social skills and responsibilities.

• Working together in the classroom

• Exploring and creating

• Assuming responsibility

• Families and how they change

• Neighborhoods

Developing awareness of cultural diversity, now and long ago.

• United States of America

• Famous and historical people

• Maps

• People in other countries

• American holidays

• Life now as compared to long ago 

Mathematics

• Identify and write numbers to 100

• Count and order numbers to 100

• Count by twos, fives, and tens

• Recognize odd and even numbers

• Addition

  • horizontal and vertical format

  • sums to 12

  • sums using 3 addends

• Subtraction

  • horizontal and vertical format

  • differences from 12 or less without regrouping

• Money (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)

• Graphing

• Make and use bar and picture graphs to find information

• Time to the hour and half-hour

• Use a calendar

• Fractions (identify equal parts, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4)

• Measurement (estimate and measure length, height, weight capacity)

• Geometry and probability

Science

Life Science

• Plants

• Animals 

Physical Science

• Matter

• Sound, Heat, and Light

• Movement

Earth Science

• Earth and Sky

• Weather

• Caring for Earth

Human Body

• Senses

• Staying healthy, keeping clean

• We change as we grow

• Dental health

Fire Safety