READING Print and book handling Print awareness-capital and lower case letters Alphabetic knowledge Phonemic awareness (rhyming, initial sounds) Sequencing stories Making predictions High-frequency vocabulary Literary genres Descriptive forms LANGUAGE ARTS Concepts of print and print awareness Writing with phonetic spelling Written forms and genres Speaking clearly Listening and responding Tracking print Punctuation Environmental print and labels Cultural perspectives MATHEMATICS Reading and writing numbers 1-100 Counting forwards and backwards Counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s Length, weight, temperature, time Estimating, guessing, and checking Money recognition Joining and separating sets Ordinal numbers and comparatives Understanding plus and minus signs Concepts of addition and subtraction with pictures and objects SCIENCE Life Science Characteristics of living things Physical Science The senses Pushes and pulls Properties of matter Earth Science Looking at the sky Land resources Human Body Body parts Nutrition Investigation and experimentation The five senses SOCIAL STUDIES Self, Family, Friends School Local community Different cultures 50 states The United States Continent and maps History of past events, stories of other times Recognizing symbols of the United States Mrs. Lynn Hendershot BS SUNY Brockport Ms. Lisa Baumann Ms. Milissa Gillespie BS SUNY Brockport Assistants: Mrs. Hendershot – Debbie McCune Mrs. Baumann – Jessica Gordon Miss Gillespie – Sandra Lamar