• 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 aid subtraction facts to 20

• Basic multiplication aid 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.