Reading/Listening

The student will:

• Listen quietly and attentively for pleasure and instructions

• Listen to, assess and evaluate information

• Gather information from pictures and sounds, words, and numbers

• Follow simple oral directions

Writing/Speaking

The student will:

• Think of self as writer, participate in the community of writers

• Write to express his/her ideas

• Understand the concept of letters, words and sentences

• Dictate sentences or stories for an adult to write

• Share own writing

• Write first name in proper formation

• Demonstrate knowledge about conventions of print by identifying letters, words, sentences

• Express himself/herself orally in both formal and informal situations

• Speak in complete sentences

• Predict an outcome to a story

• Retell a story event in a sequence

Phonological Awareness

The student will:

• Name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet

• Make sound symbol associations

• Recognize I, is, the, and to

• Demonstrate ability to rhyme

Problem Solving Strategies

The student will:

• Use objects to compare number and determine quantities of more or less

• Understand beginning addition and subtraction

Measurement

The student will:

• Compare and order different things by size, length, etc.

• Demonstrate awareness of large/small, hot/cold, etc.

• Measure and compare using standard and non-standard units of measurement

Patterns, Relations and Functions

The student will:

• Construct and interpret graphs

• Sort by color, size or shape

• Continue a simple pattern

• Do estimations and mental mathematics

• Compare sets of objects to determine more, less, same, etc.

Money

The student will:

• Recognize and state value of a penny

• Demonstrate number sense

• Count by rote to 50

• Recognize numerals 0 through 10

• Count backward from 10 to 0

• Count objects (one to one correspondence)

The student will:

• Understand self in relation to others

• Understand the likenesses and differences among families

• Learn about school and the school community

• Explore their neighborhood

• Study the symbol of our nation’s holidays, flag, celebrations

• Help one another

The student will:

• Identify the parts of a plant

• Identify which objects sink and float and draw conclusions about why objects sink/float

• Learn about different types of weather and make observations about weather

• Experiment with magnets

• Study the five senses

• Learn about taking care of self including important health habits, dental health and personal hygiene