Throughout the school year we will be working in the following areas:
Reading
The students will be using the district-adopted Houghton Mifflin text and Wright Group books (leveled readers) to master the following standards:
- Distinguish short and long vowel words
- Create and state a series of rhyming words
- Add, delete or change target sounds to change words (i.e. cow to how, plan to than)
- Read common sight words (Nov. benchmark is 75 words, January benchmark is 125 words)
- Read common word families
- Respond to who, what, when, where and how questions
Confirm predictions in a text
- Retell the central ideas of simple narrative and expository texts
- Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting and character in a story
- Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story
- Write about books read at school and at home
Writing
- Printing legibly and spacing letters, words and sentences appropriately
- Selecting a topic when writing
- Complete and incomplete sentences
- Using a period or question mark at the end of a sentence
- Capitalizing the first word of a sentence
- Identifying nouns and verbs in a sentence
- Spelling 3 and 4 letter short vowel words and sight words correctly
Listening and Speaking
- Ask questions for clarification and understanding
- Listen attentively
- Follow simple two-step directions
- Recite poems, rhymes and songs
- Retell stories using correct sequence
Math
The students will be using the district-adopted McGraw Hill Mathematics program and Excel Math to master the following standards:
- Count, read and write numbers to 100
- Identify and know the value of coins
- Know addition and subtraction facts (November benchmark: facts to 5, January benchmark: facts to 10)
- Identify one more than and one less than a given number
- Count by 5's and 10's to 100
- Make reasonable estimates
- Tell time to the hour
- Identify common geometric figures
- Follow directions about location (i.e. put the picture of the ball next to the picture of the horse)
- Compare data by using pictures, tally charts and bar graphs
- Describe and extend simple repeating patterns
- Make decisions about how to set up and solve a problem
- Compare the length of two or more objects by using a nonstandard unit
Science
The following units will be studied during the course of the year:
- Weather
- Solids and Liquids
- Plants and Living Things
- Technology
Social Studies
The following concepts/skills will be studied during the course of the year:
- Individual responsibilities of citizenship
- Use maps to locate California, the United States, the seven continents and the four oceans
- Recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing songs that express American ideals
- Identify American symbols and landmarks
- Compare and contrast everyday life in different times and places around the world
- Understand the difference between Needs and Wants
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