Social Studies
· Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs
· Understanding and appreciating other cultures
· Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
· Relationship of the individual to the group
· Work and jobs
· Safety rules and symbols
· Basic human needs
· Self-respect and self-awareness
· Awareness of others
· Location of home and school
· Diagram of home and school
· Observation of everyday, familiar things · Common animals and plants · Interrelationships of animals and plants · Classification of living things · Farm animals · Care of pets · Like and unlike plants · Indoor plants |
· The sun: our principal source of energy · Weather and seasons · Temperature · Light · Colors · Senses · Earth, moon, stars, planets · Simple measurement · Beginning experimentation |
Language Arts
· Phonics · Choral reading · Listening to literature, music, poetry · Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables · Social listening · Constructing visual images while listening · Oral communication skills · Role play |
· Following and giving directions · Paraphrasing and summarizing · Organizing ideas · Experience stories · Relating events and experiences using complete sentences · Listening for correct speech habits and word usage · Beginning writing process · Manuscript handwriting |
· Personal hygiene · Good eating habits · Good grooming · Care of teeth |
· Major body parts · Physical fitness · Safety to and from school
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· Simple counting to 20 · One-to-one relationship · Concepts of more, less than, same · Sequence of events · Correspondence of quantities · Ordinal-cardinal relationship · Number-numeral relationship · Recognition of basic sets |
· Meaning of addition and subtraction · Introduction to number line · Estimation · Elementary geometry (shapes) · Calendar and clock · Denominations of money · Basic problem-solving strategies · Basic chart and graph concepts
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