·        Holidays and festivals

·        Patriotic celebrations

·        Communities in other lands: past and present

·        Family and family history

·        Families around the world

·        Neighborhoods

·        Community services and helpers

·        Shelters, stores, and food

·        Citizenship and social responsibility

·        Interdependence of people

·        Basic geography: oceans, continents

·        Map skills

·        Useful and harmful animals

·        Life cycle

·        Birds and insects in winter

·        Animal babies

·        Animal defense of themselves and their young

·        Plant and animal food

·        Dinosaurs and other extinct animals

·        Food chain

·        Plant reproduction and growth

·        Habitats and homes

·        Weather and its effects on earth

·        Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants

·        Climate

·        Water cycle

·        Air and atmosphere

·        Magnets and forces

·        Gravity

·        Earth and sky

·        Sun, moon, planets

·        Simple constellations

·        Exploring space

·        Scientific method and scientific inquiry

·        Reading silently for purpose

·        Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading

·        Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading

·        Story development: beginning, middle, end

·        Simple book reviews

·        Listening skills

·        Organizing ideas and impressions

·        Alphabetizing through second letter of a word

·        Using dictionary guide words

·        Vocabulary development

·        Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms

·        Methods of word attack

·        Ways to study spelling

·        Simple punctuation and capitalization

·        Refining manuscript handwriting

·        Writing independently in manuscript form

·        Brief and simple letters and journals

·        Narration, description, letters, poetry

·        Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

·        Personal cleanliness

·        Dental hygiene

·        Basic food groups

·        Communicable diseases

·        Preventive measures against disease

·        Neighborhood safety

·        Counting, reading, writing to 1,000

·        Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's

·        Ordinal numbers to 10

·        Zero as a place holder

·        Using sets and number facts

·        Addition and subtraction facts to 20

·        Basic multiplication and division facts

·        Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations

·        Multiplication properties of 0 and 1

·        Place value through 100's

·        Fractions in daily life

·        Decimal numeration system

·        Basic concept of ratio

·        Geometry puzzles and activities

·        Estimation

·        Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature

·        Telling time and using the calendar

·        Handling money (coins)

·        Problem solving

·        Charts and graphs