Language Arts
Reading/Listening
The student will:
- Identify upper/lower case letters
- Read color, number, sight words
- Demonstrate phonics skills-
- Identify/use consonant sounds
- Identify/use short & long vowel sounds
- Identify/use blends (st, bl), digraphs (sh,th) and endings (ing,s)
- Listen to gain information
- Use strategies to gain meaning (semantic, pictures and phonics)
- Identify story elements (events, characters, setting)
- Predict and draw conclusions
Writing/Speaking
The student will:
- Create illustrations to correspond with written words
- Write a complete sentence using appropriate spacing, capitalization and punctuation
- Write 2-3 sentences on a single topic
- Tell and write a sequenced piece (beginning, middle and end)
- Use learned conventional spelling
- Form and use upper and lower case manuscript letters appropriately (eg raBBit should be rabbit)
Math
The student will:
- Count forward by 1's,2's,5's and 10's to 100
- Count backwards by 1's and 10's from 100
- Write numerals to 100
- Write/count tally marks
- Identify equal parts/halves
- Group objects by 1's and 10's
- Add/subtract numbers with sums to 10
- Add/subtract two-digit numbers with manipulatives
- Construct appropriate equations to solve simple written math problems
- Record and interpret information on a graph
- Measure length, weight, and temperature
- Tell time to the hour and half hour
- Identify penny, nickel, dime and quarter
- Demonstrate understanding of coin value and equivalence using pennies, nickels and dimes
Social Studies
The student will:
- Demonstrate responsible behavior as a member of the school community
- Compare and contrast various family, group and community traditions and holidays
- Understand the importance of safety as it relates to home and school
Science
The student will learn the following concepts:
- Properties (characteristics of objects such as shape, size and color)
- States of matter (solid, liquid, gas)
- Life cycles (plants, animals)
- Respect for our environment
- Importance of healthy habits
The student will:
- Observe, identify, classify and record different materials using appropriate tools