·        Holidays, 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

·        Making and reading a simple neighborhood map

·        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, flowers

·        Weather and seasons

·        Day and night

·        Solids, liquids, gases

·        Air and water

·        Magnets

·        Fire and temperature

·        Sun, moon, stars, planets

·        Simple machines

·        Beginning experimentation

·        Scientific method and scientific inquiry

·        Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary

·        Reading informally: names, labels, signs

·        Simple pantomimes and dramatic play

·        Creating stories and poems

·        Telling favorite stories

·        Organizing ideas and impressions

·        Enunciation and pronunciation

·        Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity

·        Book reports and critiques

·        Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion

·        Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing

·        Beginning spelling

·        Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives

·        Introduction to punctuation and capitalization

·        Manuscript handwriting

·        Handling books

·        Using table of contents

·        Development of a class newspaper

·        Personal hygiene

·        Dental health

·        Good eating habits

·        Exercise and rest

·        Diseases

·        Common cold

·        Dressing for weather and activity

·        Safety rules to and from school

·        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 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