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 sum 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, poety

• 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

 

• 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