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Curriculum
Highlights
Our primary goal is to instill a love
of reading and learning. The topics and skills, listed below, will
be covered throughout each academic area.
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Language Arts |
Mathematics |
Social Studies |
- Letter recognition
- Letter sounds (phonics
- Phonemic awareness
- Rhyme to recognize
word patterns
- Inventive spelling
- Letter and numeral
formation (DNealian)
- Participate in group
discussions
- Express thoughts
clearly
- Use complete sentences
when speaking
- Dictate sentence to
describe a picture
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- Count objects using
one to one correspondence to 20
- Recognition of
numerals 0-20
- Basic shapes and
colors
- Patterns
- Sorting
- Introduce coin
recognition
- Tell time to the hour
- Days of the week
- Measurement
- Estimation
- Numeral relations
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- Holidays and
traditions
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Family/School/Community
- Citizenship
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Social Skills/Work Habits |
Science/Health |
Art |
- Socialization skills
- Work independently
- Tie shoes and dress
independently
- Name, telephone
number, area code, address
- Listen to and follow
directions
- Work carefully and
neatly
- Finish work within
time allowed
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- Seasons/Weather
- Plants
- Safety
- Dental health
- Five senses
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- Explore and use a
variety of mediums
- Form and use a
vocabulary about artwork
- Physical Education
- Spatial and body
awareness-personal space, general space
- Skip and gallop
- Dance simple folk
dances
- Large group games
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Music |
Computer Lab |
Library |
- Sing a variety of
songs and play singing games
- Participate in a
variety of rhythmic movement games and activities to
begin to feel the beat
- Play simple classroom
percussion instruments, and identify by sight and sound
- Listen to and see the
flute, clarinet, trumpet, and violin
- Sing songs related to
other areas of study such as science and social studies
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- Reading concepts and
skills include letter identification, visual
discrimination, auditory, vocabulary building, and
comprehension skills
- Math concepts and
skills include number concepts, measurement, addition,
geometry, and word problems
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Book Care
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Parts of a book; author, title, illustrator, spine,
label, card, pocket
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Caldecott Medal books
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Themes: Seasons, holidays, pets, etc. (integrated with
classroom)
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