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• Holidays and folk customs

• Native Americans

• Explorers and pioneers

• Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions

• History and development of local community

• Community helpers

• Consumers and producers

• Sources of food and clothing

• Shelters of animals and people

History and development of transportation

History and development of communication

Citizenship and social responsibility

Basic human needs and wants

Local geography and topography

U.S. geography and regions

The continents

Flat maps and globes

• Animal helpers

• Dinosaurs

• Life cycle

• Plants and animals of the desert

• Plants and animals of the sea

• Common buds, trees, flowers

• Forest plants

• Conservation of plants and animals

• Weather and climate

• Earth’s changing surface

• Magnets and electricity

• Compass

• Gravity

• Light and color

• Energy and its sources

• Force and work

• Machines

• Moon and stars

• Earth satellites

• Scientific method and scientific inquiry

• Silent reading

• Reading prose and poetry aloud

• Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy

• Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word

• Dictionary skills

• Developing word-attack methods

• Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

• Spelling

• Beginning cursive writing

• Concept of paragraph

• Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks

• Writing short, original stories and poems

• Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading

• Increasing indexing skills

• Care of eyes and ears

• Dental health

• Proper balance of activities

• Healthful leisure activities

• Prevention and control of diseases

• Parts of the body

• Nutrition

• Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing

• School and community health services

• Home safety hazards

• Safety in the community

• Simple first aid

• Reading and writing numbers to 5 places

• Beginning Roman numerals

• Rounding numbers

• Positive and negative numbers in daily life

• Simple fractions and equivalents

• Properties of one

• Numeration systems

• Addition and subtraction facts to 25

• Multiplication and division facts to 100

• Perimeter, area, volume

• Geometric constructions

• Similar and congruent figures

• Properties of solid figures

• Customary and metric measurement

• Time to 1-and 5-minute measures

• Estimation of outcomes

• Problems-solving analysis

• Word problems

• Charts and graphs