The Mom I Want to Be

Social Studies

* Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs

* Understanding and appreciating other cultures

* Individual’s role in family, home, school, and community

* Relationship of the individual to the group

* Work and jobs

* Safety rules and symbols

* Basic human needs

* Self-respect and self-awareness

* Awareness of others

* Location of home and school

* Diagram of home and school

 

Science

* Observation of everyday, familiar things

* Common animals and plants

* Interrelationships of animals and plants

* Classification of living things

* Farm animals

* Care of pets

* Like and unlike plants

* Indoor plants

* The sun: our principal source of energy

* Weather and seasons

* Temperature

* Light

* Colors

* Senses

* Earth, moon, stars, planets

* Simple measurement

* Beginning experimentation

 

Language Arts

* Phonics

* Choral reading

* Listening to literature, music, poetry

* Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables

* Social listening

* Constructing visual images while listening

* Oral communication skills

* Role play

* Following and giving directions

* Paraphrasing and summarizing

* Organizing ideas

* Experience stories

* Relating events and experiences using complete sentences

* Listening for correct speech habits and word usage

* Beginning writing process

* Manuscript handwriting

 

Health and Safety

* Personal hygiene

* Good eating habits

* Good grooming

* Care of teeth

* Major body parts

* Physical fitness

* Safety to and from school

 

Mathematics

* Simple counting to 20

* One-to-one relationship

* Concepts of more, less than, same

* Sequence of events

* Correspondence of quantities

* Ordinal-cardinal relationship

* Number-numeral relationship

* Recognition of basic sets

* Meaning of addition and subtraction

* Introduction to number line

* Estimation

* Elementary geometry (shapes)

* Calendar and clock

* Denominations of money

* Basic problem-solving strategies

* Basic chart and graph concepts