Curriculum

English

Print first and last name correctly from memory
Identify capital and lowercase letters
Build communication skills through the use of oral language while developing listening and speaking vocabularies
Identify rhyming words and recite familiar rhymes and songs
Develop an ability to orally identify sounds in words
Demonstrate an understanding of story content
Understand how print is organized
Use pictures, letters, and/or words to write about experiences
Ask how and why questions
Identify beginning and ending consonants in single- syllable words

Conduct investigations by identifying and using the human senses
Explore and understand physical properties of objects, magnets, water, and light
Investigate and understand basic needs of living things and life cycles
Observe and understand simple patterns in everyday life
Investigate and understand that changes occur over time
Identify and describe materials that can be reused, recycled, and conserved

Count forward to 100, by 5’s and 10’s to 100, backward from 10
Match numerals 0-15 to sets of objects
Add and subtract simple sets of objects
Locate objects by their positions
Identify more, less, and equal
Recognize penny, nickel, dime, quarter and determine the value of a collection of pennies
Fractions (1/2, and ¼)
Tell time to the hour using analog or digital clock
Identify tools of measurement
Use standard and nonstandard units to compare the measurements of objects
Identify, describe, and make circle, triangle, square, and rectangle
Gather data by counting, tallying and graphing
Sort and classify objects
Identify and describe patterns

Use simple maps, globes and models to identify and to locate our country, our state, and our community
Identify map and community symbols
Study and describe jobs in the community
Understand basic economic concepts such as basic needs and wants, exchanging money for goods and saving money
Identify famous Americans, historical holidays, past events and historical accounts
Identify and practice good citizenship
Identify the American flag and Pledge of Allegiance
Recognize the President as the leader of the United States

Conduct investigations by identifying and using the human senses
Explore and understand physical properties of objects, magnets, water, and light
Investigate and understand basic needs of living things and life cycles
Observe and understand simple patterns in everyday life
Investigate and understand that changes occur over time
Identify and describe materials that can be reused, recycled, and conserved

Count forward to 100, by 5’s and 10’s to 100, backward from 10
Match numerals 0-15 to sets of objects
Add and subtract simple sets of objects
Locate objects by their positions
Identify more, less, and equal
Recognize penny, nickel, dime, quarter and determine the value of a collection of pennies
Fractions (1/2, and ¼)
Tell time to the hour using analog or digital clock
Identify tools of measurement
Use standard and nonstandard units to compare the measurements of objects
Identify, describe, and make circle, triangle, square, and rectangle
Gather data by counting, tallying and graphing
Sort and classify objects
Identify and describe patterns

Use simple maps, globes and models to identify and to locate our country, our state, and our community
Identify map and community symbols
Study and describe jobs in the community
Understand basic economic concepts such as basic needs and wants, exchanging money for goods and saving money
Identify famous Americans, historical holidays, past events and historical accounts
Identify and practice good citizenship
Identify the American flag and Pledge of Allegiance
Recognize the President as the leader of the United States