Reading
- Fact and opinion
- Inferences
- Main Idea
- Details
- Sequencing
- Classifying
- Drawing conclusions
- Making Judgments
- Context Clues
- Decoding
- Following directions
- Using a dictionary
- Using a table of contents
- Predicting outcomes
- Synonyms/Antonyms/Homonyms
- Vocabulary/word usage
- Cause/effect
- Syllables
- Parts of a book
- Fiction/non-fiction
- Using references
- Poetry
- Graphic organizers
- Story characters
- Moral/Parts of a story
- The Writing Process
- Letter Writing
Phonics
- Auditory discrimination
- Consonant letter-sound assoc.
- Hard and soft c and g
- Consonant-vowel-consonant blending
- Short vowel letter-sound
- Long vowel letter-sound
- Compound and two-syllable
- Consonant blends
- Y as a vowel
- Consonant digraphs
- Inflectional endings
- Suffixes and prefixes
- Vowel pairs and digraphs
- Diphthongs
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Social Studies
- Landforms
- Neighborhoods and Communities
- Working together: Rules, laws, leaders, voting, city hall
- Pioneers: Westward movement, food, clothing, social activities, schools, homes, chores
- Native Americans: Regions, songs, dance, customs, legends, language, names
- Celebrate America: Our flag, famous presidents, national symbols, pledge of allegiance, patriotic songs, the White House, Capitol, Famous Americans, national monuments, national holidays
- Wants and needs: Basic human needs, wants, factory, goods, services, taxes, volunteers, consumers, and jobs
- Maps and globes: Symbols, terms, landforms, directions, water forms
- Landforms: Continents, water forms, surface changes
- Hemispheres
- Regions
Writing Process (all subjects)
- Prewrite
- Rough draft
- Revise
- Edit
- Publish
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English
- Sentences structure
- Parts of a sentence
- Statements
- Questions
- Word order
- Using I
- Editing/Proofreading
- Mechanics:
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Days/holidays/months
- Titles of people
- Titles of books
- Sentences
- Dates
- Names and places
- Suffixes/prefixes
- Conjunctions
- Articles
- Nouns: proper nouns, more than one, adding –es, nouns that change spelling
- Pronouns
- Verbs: present tense, past tense, adding –ed, forms of be, forms of have, contractions
- Adjectives
- Adding –er, -est
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Compound words
- ABC Order
- Dictionary skills
- Abbreviations
- Rhyming words
Cursive writing introduced mid-first semester
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Mathematics
- Counting: to 2,000 backwards by ones, twos, fives, tens even/odd numbers ordinal numbers
- Addition: terminology, memorize families 1-18, add/subtract dollars/cents, estimate sums, add/subtract w/borrowing, to ten thousands
- Problem solving
- Logic/patterns
- Place value to ten-thousands
- Rounding: nearest tens, nearest dollar
- Roman numerals
- Order three numbers
- Money: pennies, dimes, nickels, half-dollars, dollars
- Time—to five minutes
- Temperature
- Non-standard measurement: cups, pints, quarts, gallons, kilograms, pounds, liters, yard, foot, inches, centimeter
- Graphs: vertical, horizontal, picture, line, pie, grids, Venn diagrams, tally mark, and bar graphs
- Geometry: sort shapes, solids, identify vertexes, find perimeter, symmetry
- Fractions
- Word problems
- Multiplication
- Division
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Science
- Physical Science
- Matter
- Motion
- Forces
- Energy
- Light
- Life Science
- Plant structures
- Animal structures
- Diversity and adaptation
- Heredity/reproduction
- Environments
- Earth and Space Science
- Dynamic Earth
- Fossils
- Soil
- Land and water forms
- Weather patterns
- Space
- Moon phases
- Solar system
- Process and Application
- Scientific investigation
- Tools of science
- Experimental process
- Safety
- Use math in scientific Inquiry
- Science and technology careers
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