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• 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

Science

• 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

Mathematics

• Counting and writing to 100

• Counting by 2~s to 40

• Simple number patterns

• Beginning ordinal numbers

• Using l0 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