Language Arts

• Explore and appreciate books, authors, and illustrators
• Memorize poems and rhymes
• Read words, sentences and stories
• Develop comprehension skills
• Write ideas, sentences, and stories
• Record thoughts, ideas, and personal experiences in journals
• Relate experiences through oral communication
• Print legibly
• Understand the need for English grammar and usage
• Apply phonetic principles to read

Social Studies

• Study lives and times of famous Americans, both past and present
• Use maps, globes, pictures, stories, and timelines to study geography
• Explain resources of the world: human, natural and capital
• Identify rules and national symbols

Science

• Learn to use reasoning, logic and scientific investigation technique
• Investigate teh effects of motion upon an object
• Explore the interaction of water with common materials
• Study the life processes of plants and animals
• Study the needs, characteristics and parts of plants and animals
• Explore the effects of weather on plants, animals and people
• Understand basic relationships between the sun and earth

Math

• Sort and classify objects
• Count, recognize and write to 100
• Count by two's, five's and ten's
• Add and subtract facts to 18
• Identify fractions 1/4, 1/2, and 1/3
• Use different methods of measurement
• Know values of coins
• Tell time to hour and half hour
• Identify two and three dimensional shapes
• Understand simple graphs
• Solve number sentences
• Use verbal explanations of math solutions