The Mom I Want to Be

Social Studies

* Holidays and festivals

* Patriotic celebrations

* Communities in other lands: past and present

* Family and family history

* Families around the world

* Neighborhoods

* Community services and helpers

* Shelters, stores, and food

* Citizenship and social responsibility

* Interdependence of people

* Basic geography: oceans, continents

* Map skills

 

Science

* Useful and harmful animals

* Life cycle

* Birds and insects in winter

* Animal babies

* Animal defense of themselves and their young

* Plant and animal food

* Dinosaurs and other extinct animals

* Food chain

* Plant reproduction and growth

* Habitats and homes

* Weather and its effects on earth

* Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants

* Climate

* Water cycle

* Air and atmosphere

* Magnets and forces

* Gravity

* Earth and sky

* Sun, moon, planets

* Simple constellations

* Exploring space

* Scientific method and scientific inquiry

 

 

Language Arts

* Reading silently for purpose

* Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading

* Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading

* Story development: beginning, middle, end

* Simple book reviews

* Listening skills

* Organizing ideas and impressions

* Alphabetizing through second letter of a word

* Using dictionary guide words

* Vocabulary development

* Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms

* Methods of word attack

* Ways to study spelling

* Simple punctuation and capitalization

* Refining manuscript handwriting

* Writing independently in manuscript form

* Brief and simple letters and journals

* Narration, description, letters, poetry

* Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

 

 

Health and Safety

* Personal cleanliness

* Dental hygiene

* Basic food groups

* Communicable diseases

* Preventive measures against disease

* Neighborhood safety

 

Mathematics

* Counting, reading, writing to 1,000

* Counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s

* Ordinal numbers to 10

* Zero as a place holder

* Using sets and number facts

* Addition and subtraction facts to 20

* Basic multiplication and division facts

* Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations

* Multiplication properties of 0 and 1

* Place value through 100’s

* Fractions in daily life

* Decimal numeration system

* Basic concept of ratio

* Geometry puzzles and activities

* Estimation

* Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature

* Telling time and using the calendar

* Handling money (coins)

* Problem solving

* Charts and graphs