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.
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Science: Obersavation 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.
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Language Arts: Phonics,choral reading,listening to literature, music,poetry,nursery rhymes, fairy tales,fables,scoial listening,construction visual images while listening, role play, oral communication skills,following and giving directions, paraphrasing and summarizing, organizing ideas, experience stories, relation events and experiences using complete sentences, listeneing for correct speech habits and word usage, beginning writing process, manuscript handwriting
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Health and Safety: Personal hygiene, good eating habits, good grooming, care of teeth, major body parts, physical fitness, safety to and from school
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Mathematics: 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 adding and substation, introduction to number line, estimation, elementary geomentry ( shapes), calendar and clock, denominations of money, basic problem-solving strategies, basic chart and graph concepts
Social Studies: Holidays, traditions,and customs, our American heritage,Different cultures at different times, Family, school, neighborhood, and community, Farm and zoo, neighborhood helpers,jobs and careers, Social skills and responsibilites, basic geography terms, making andreading a simple neighborhood map.
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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, and flowers, weather and seasons, day and night, solids, liquids, and gases, air and water, magnets, fire and temperature, sun, moon, stars, and planets, simple machines, beginning experimentation, scientific method and scientific inqury.
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Language Arts: Reading,phonetic analysis, structural analysis, establishing sight vocabulary, reading informally:names, lablels, and signs , for example, Simple pantomimes and dramatic play, Creating stories and poems, Telling favorite stories, organizing ideas and impressions, enuciation 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,and adjectivies, Introduction to punctuation and capitalization, manuscript handwritting, handling books, using table of contents, development of class newspaper
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Health and safety: Personal hygiene, dental health, good eating habits, exercise and rest, diseases, common cold, dressing for weather and activity, safety rules to and from school.
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Mathematics: Counting and writing to 100, counting by 2's to 40, simple number patterns, beginning ordinal numbers, using 10 as basic unit , simple properties of zero,simple proerties of sets, beginning addition and subtraction facts, number-line-use,place value and numberation, 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, dime, nickel, and quarter, solving simple word problems, basic probabilty and chance, basic chart and graph concepts.
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