Curriculum

English

• Grow in oral language
• Expand and use speaking and listening vocabularies in conversations
• Use phonics, meaning clues, and language        structure to read and self correct
• Read familiar stories with fluency and expression
• Read, comprehend, and retell stories
• Identify major characters and events
• Predict outcomes
• Print legibly
• Write complete sentences using descriptive words, correct capitalization and punctuation
• Participate in daily Writer’s Workshop activities
• Make and use a personal dictionary

Science

• Plan and conduct investigations
• Investigate different kinds of motions
• Investigate how water interacts with solids
• Investigate plant needs and characteristics
• Investigate animal needs and characteristics
• Investigate the relationship between the sun and the Earth
• Investigate seasonal changes
• Investigate the limit of natural resources and the need to conserve them

Mathematics

• Count, recognize and write the numerals 1-100
• Develop an understanding of place value for ones and tens
• Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• Identify ordinal positions to ten
• Count sets of pennies, nickels, and dimes to 100 cents or less
• Tell time to the hour and half hour using both digital and analog clocks
• Use nonstandard and standard units to measure length, weight, and volume
• Draw, describe, and identify a shape by the number of sides, corners, and square corners it has
• Investigate, identify, describe, and use different charts and graphs
• Sort and classify objects according to their attributes
• recognize, describe, and extend a pattern
• Identify and represent the fractions for one-half and one-fourth
• Recall basic addition and subtraction facts to 10
• Solve one step story problems

Social Studies

• Identify famous Americans
• Compare life then and now
• Create time lines
• Study famous events and holidays
• Use and create maps
• Locate Washington D.C., Richmond, the United States, and Virginia on a map
• Identify how climate and location affect us
• Compare our geography with other places
• Identify examples of producers and consumers
• Explain the need to make choices
• Identify ways to save money
• Identify attributes of a good citizen
• Describe and create class rules
• Identify different ethnic customs and traditions
• Identify state and national symbols

Technology

• Write and save a simple sentence using word processing
• Illustrate using drawing programs.
• Participate in database and graphing activities.