LANGUAGE ARTS (Reading, Writing, Language, Communication)
• Recognize and name upper & lower case letters and sounds
• Connect sounds to letters
• Recognize rhyming words
• Identify beginning and ending sounds
• Sequence events and stories
• Retell stories
• Understand that print has meaning
• Recognize that literature comes in many forms
• Develop beginning reading skills
• Recognize high-frequency words
• Participate in reading and writing activities
• Listen attentively
• Develop listening and speaking skills
• Recognize that writing goes from left to right
• Print name correctly
• Convey ideas through pictures and writing
• Express ideas in complete sentences
• Write a simple sentence
• Apply letter sounds to writing
• Begin to use spaces between words
• Use sight words in writing
• Begin to use conventional spelling
• Use pencil, crayon, and scissors appropriately
MATH
• Actively participate in classroom math activities
• Create, extend, and describe patterns
• Sort objects
• Identify geometric shapes & solids
• Count by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s
• Count using one-to-one correspondence
• Count backward from ten or more
• Identify, read and write numbers to 20
• Learn basic addition and subtraction up to 10
• Make sense of basic fact word problems and solve them
• Compare using more and fewer
• Understand measurement
SCIENCE
Project Lead the Way Units:
- Make sense of structure and function of common objects
- Understand seasons of the year and weather during each season
- Demonstrate push & pull concepts
- Introduction of systems of the human body
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Understand special days, holidays, & traditions
- Recognize individuals and families
- Reconize qualities among people
- Recognize community members and community helpers
- Read about seasonal events/news in Scholastic Let's Find Out newspaper