Language Arts
Reading/Listening
The student will:
- Listen quietly and attentively for pleasure and instructions
- Listen to, assess and evaluate information
- Gather information from pictures and sounds, words, and numbers
- Follow simple oral directions
Writing/Speaking
The student will:
- Think of self as writer, participate in the community of writers
- Write to express his/her ideas
- Understand the concept of letters, words and sentences
- Dictate sentences or stories for an adult to write
- Share own writingWrite first name in proper formation
- Demonstrate knowledge about conventions of print by identifying letters, words, sentences
- Express himself/herself orally in both formal and informal situations
- Speak in complete sentences
- Predict an outcome to a story
- Retell a story event in a sequence
Phonological Awareness
The student will:
- Name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet
- Make sound symbol associations
- Recognize I, is, the, and to
- Demonstrate ability to rhyme
Math
Problem Solving Strategies
The student will:
- Use objects to compare number and determine quantities of more or less
- Understand beginning addition and subtraction
Measurement
The student will:
- Compare and order different things by size, length, etc.
- Demonstrate awareness of large/small, hot/cold, etc.
- Measure and compare using standard and non-standard units of measurement
Patterns, Relations and Functions
The student will:
- Construct and interpret graphs
- Sort by color, size or shape
- Continue a simple pattern
- Do estimations and mental mathematics
- Compare sets of objects to determine more, less, same, etc.
Money
The student will:
- Recognize and state value of a penny
- Demonstrate number sense
- Count by rote to 50
- Recognize numerals 0 through 10
- Count backward from 10 to 0
- Count objects (one to one correspondence)
Social Studies
The student will:
- Understand self in relation to others
- Understand the likenesses and differences among families
- Learn about school and the school community
- Explore their neighborhood
- Study the symbol of our nation's holidays, flag, celebrations
- Help one another
Science
The student will:
- Identify the parts of a plant
- Identify which objects sink and float and draw conclusions about why objects sink/float
- Learn about different types of weather and make observations about weather
- Experiment with magnets
- Study the five senses
- Learn about taking care of self including important health habits, dental health and personal hygiene