Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Habitats and Homes [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Answer questions about a text
• Attempt to read dictated text
• Begin to write words
• Connect literature to prior knowledge or experience
• Demonstrate a sense of story (beginning, middle, and end)
• Express ideas
• Identify beginning letters and sounds in words
• Identify the sequence of events in a story
• Identify the title, author's name, and illustrator's name on a book
• Illustrate a story
• Listen critically to text read aloud
• Listen to and answer questions about text read orally
• Make connections through the use of oral language
• Make predictions about a story
• Present dramatic interpretations of stories
• Read or attempt to read own story
• Recognize some words by sight
• Respond to critical questions about a text
• Sequence events in the correct order
• Show an understanding that the letters in a written word represent the sequence of sounds in a spoken word
• Use words that name, describe, and tell action
• Write and sound out letters
• Write beginning consonants of words

Math

• Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles
• Count objects in a set and record the number
• Create a pictorial graph
• Measure objects
• Model and use directional and positional vocabulary
• Place data and ideas on a chart
• Read and write numbers
• Recognize equivalent sets
• Sort and classify objects by one attribute

Science

• Describe animal habitats
• Describe animals' basic needs
• Identify basic human needs
• Identify the appropriate environment for an animal
• Identify the needs of animals
• Identify tools in the environment and how we use them
• Observe animals' movements and changes
• Observe how animals interact with their surroundings
• Observe how people interact with their surroundings
• Observe the behavior of animals
• Recognize that animals grow and change
• Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different animals (including air, water, and food) for energy and growth.
• Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth.

Social Studies

• Create and interpret simple maps and drawings of the home and other environments
• Describe how individuals change
• Describe the function of places in the home and other environments
• Locate and describe familiar places in the home and other environments (such as bodies of water and landforms)

Unit 2: Weather [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Follow written directions
• Identify beginning letters and sounds in words
• Know the difference between individual letters and printed words
• Listen critically to text read aloud
• Make oral presentations
• Make predictions about a story
• Participate in songs
• Recognize that written words are separated by spaces
• Respond to text read aloud
• Use new vocabulary in speech and writing

Math

• Collect and display data using pictorial graphs
• Collect and organize data
• Complete spatial visualization tasks
• Count objects
• Count objects in a set and record the number
• Describe data with a graph
• Model a number
• Recognize number symbols and number words
• Recognize symmetrical and non-symmetrical items
• Sort and classify objects by one attribute
• Use graphs to display data
• Use ordinals 1st-10th

Science

• Describe sky conditions
• Identify types of precipitation
• Identify weather conditions: cloudy, windy, rainy
• Make predictions about what will happen next in experiments
• Observe and conduct simple science experiments
• Recognize and describe seasonal changes in the environment
• Use common tools to measure weather

Unit 3: Community [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Ask questions that lead to understanding
• Connect literature to prior knowledge or experience
• Demonstrate a sense of story (beginning, middle, and end)
• Discover relationships in stories
• Follow print word by word
• Listen responsibly to text read aloud
• Predict possible events in the story before and during reading
• Read or attempt to read own story
• Recognize and name upper- and lower-case letters
• Recognize beginning consonant sounds
• Recognize letters and their sounds
• Recognize some words by sight
• Sequence events in the correct order
• Understand letters, words, and story
• Understanding of letters, words, and story
• Use vocabulary in speech and writing
• Use words that name and words that tell action
• Voice-print match
• Write letters

Math

• Compare and order sets and numbers
• Complete spatial visualization tasks
• Count objects in a set and record the number
• Create a chart
• Find the total amount
• Read and write numerals
• Sort and classify objects
• Use ordinals 1st-10th

Social Studies

• Describe the importance and purpose of rules and laws
• Exhibit traits of a good citizen
• Explain why people have jobs
• Explore goods and services provided in communities
• Identify a problem in your environment and suggest a solution
• Identify jobs in the home and community