READING
Print awareness
Alphabetic knowledge
Phonemic and phonetic awareness - final consonant sounds, initial and final digraphs, consonant clusters, vowel combinations
Cueing systems
Vocabulary and dictionary usage
Comprehension and thinking
Story details
Story elements
Book elements


LANGUAGE ARTS
Writing in complete sentences
Writing simple sentences on a main idea
Keeping a journal
Conventions of language (capitalization, punctuation)
Listening, speaking, and viewing, relating an experience orally, retelling a story orally
Research and study skills
Technology
Reading and writing behaviors
Cultural perspectives


MATHEMATICS
Everyday use of numbers- identify, write, compare, and order
Visual patterns and number patterns
One-to-one correspondence
Adding and subtracting basic facts through 12
Three addends with sums to 10 and two digit numbers without regrouping
Measuring using thermometers, linear measures, clocks (hour and half hour)
Relations between numbers, number stories, mental math, finding the second addend when the sum is given
Geometry – equal parts, halves, thirds, and fourths of a region or set, solid figures
Money fractions, counting groups of coins through $.99
Numeration and place value
Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s


SCIENCE
Life Science
Kinds of living things
How plants and animals meet their needs, parts of a plant, contrast living and non-living things
Physical Science
Magnets
Properties of matter
Earth Science
Weather and seasons
Earth’s use of water
Using simple tools to observe and measure weather conditions
Human Body
Exercise
Safety
Hygiene
Nutrition
Investigation and experimentation
Asking meaningful questions
Recording observations


SOCIAL STUDIES
Friends, family
Our community today and in the past
History
Geography
Economics
Civic understanding and values
Map and globe skills
Ethics and belief systems
Social and political systems
Critical thinking and social participation
Mrs. Marlene Volpe
BA Temple University
Masters, Marygrove College


Ms. Kelly Norton
BA Shippensburg University



Mrs. Dana Steinberg
BA West Chester University



Assistant
s:
Mrs. Volpe – Jenna Welsh

Miss Norton –
Sara Lennon





Mrs. Steinberg – Maryellen Dryslewski

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