Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Geography [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Answer questions about text read aloud
• Compose a variety of products using the writing process
• Connect experiences and ideas with those presented by others and in text
• Develop new vocabulary by listening to and discussing new words
• Read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Record or dictate knowledge on topics
• Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing contexts
• Use a variety of materials to gather information about a topic
• Write to communicate with an audience
• Write to discover, develop, and define ideas

Math

• Compare and order sets of numbers
• Develop fluency with single- and double-digit addition
• Use tools to measure distance

Science

• Ask questions about events
• Discuss a variety of living things on Earth
• Identify environments that support the needs of plants and animals
• Identify how local environments support the needs of citizens
• Investigate the needs of plants
• Make decisions using information
• Observe changes in weather

Social Studies

• Create representations of the Earth's physical and human features
• Demonstrate responsibility for the care and management of the environment
• Explore major bodies of water on a map
• Investigate key features of maps
• Recognize cardinal directions on a map
• Recognize that all families produce and consume goods and services
• Recognize that members of the community are affected by changes in the community
• Use geographic terminology when reading and creating maps

Unit 2: People Around the World [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Compare language and stories that reflect customs, regions, and culture
• Compose a variety of written products
• Connect ideas and themes across text
• Discuss and explain how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts
• Elaborate on information and events related to life experiences
• Listen critically to, interpret, and evaluate
• Listen critically, interpret, and evaluate
• Participate in rhymes, songs, conversations, and discussions
• Present dramatic interpretations of events and experiences
• Present dramatic interpretations of stories
• Read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Respond and elaborate in answering what, when, and how questions
• Select and use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text
• Use vocabulary to describe feelings, ideas, and experiences

Math

• Answer questions about graphs
• Compare and order numbers
• Create, model, and solve problems that have fair shares
• Divide objects into halves, thirds, and fourths
• Order numbers from smallest to largest
• Record parts of a set
• Use a Venn diagram to illustrate similarities and differences
• Use data to create a graph
• Use efficient strategies to count numbers
• Use efficient strategies to count the number of objects in a set
• Use groupings of tens to count sets of objects using models and pictures
• Use groupings of twos, fives, and tens to count collections of objects

Science

• Discuss the wide variety of living things on Earth
• Observe and record changes in movement
• Observe and record weather and causes of changes in weather
• Plan and conduct simple investigations

Social Studies

• Analyze patterns of movement within the community
• Compare and contrast geographic features of places within various communities
• Compare and contrast similarities and differences among cultures
• Compare and contrast similarities and differences among individuals and families
• Compare groups to which individuals belong
• Describe changes within a culture
• Describe how people from different cultures work in order to satisfy wants and needs
• Describe how people from different cultures work to earn income in order to satisfy wants and needs
• Describe the roles of individuals in the family
• Describe ways that families and homes meet human needs
• Explain how customs, symbols, and celebrations can reflect an appreciation for America
• Explore and cite reasons for observing special days that recognize celebrated individuals of diverse cultures
• Explore physical features of continents
• Explore the benefits of diversity in the United States
• Identify and describe types of houses
• Locate and describe places on a map
• Recognize and describe cultural symbols
• Recognize and describe religious and secular symbols or celebrations associated with special days of diverse cultures
• Recognize and describe symbols and traditions associated with diverse cultures
• Recognize and describe the historical events associated with national holidays
• Recognize special days celebrated by diverse cultures
• Recognize the contributions of historic American figures
• Trace the historical foundations of traditions of various neighborhoods and communities

Unit 3: Stories Around the World [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Analyze characters including their traits, feelings, relationships, and changes
• Compare experiences of characters across cultures
• Compare language and stories that reflect customs, regions, and culture
• Compose a variety of products using the writing process
• Connect ideas and themes across text
• Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts: storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, signs, labels, poems, skits, and short plays
• Describe how illustrations contribute to text
• Determine important ideas in a text, draw conclusions, identify causes and effects, and make predictions
• Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in narrative and expository texts
• Distinguish fiction from nonfiction, including fact and fantasy
• Extend skills in using oral and written language by completing graphic organizers
• Gather information from pictures, print, and people
• Identify similarities and differences across texts, such as topics, characters, and problems
• Identify the importance of setting to the meaning of a story
• Identify the plot in a story
• Participate in rhymes, songs, conversations, and discussions
• Present dramatic interpretations of stories
• Read aloud with fluency and comprehension any text designed for emergent readers
• Read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Recognize how authors develop characters
• Recognize the problem in a story
• Respond and elaborate by answering what, when, where, why, and how questions
• Respond to a variety of stories and poems through speech, movement, drama, art, music, and writing
• Retell folktales and legends
• Select and use new vocabulary and language structures orally and in writing
• Self-monitor comprehension by using questioning, retelling, or summarizing
• Understand simple story structure
• Use alphabetical order to locate information
• Use words that describe characters, settings, actions, and events in simple texts
• Write or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (such as writing a different ending for a story or composing an innovation of a poem)

Math

• Collect data and create graphs
• Connect the model, number word, and number using a variety of representations
• Develop strategies to estimate size
• Display information on a Venn diagram
• Select an attribute (length, capacity or mass) to measure using nonstandard units
• Use groupings of twos, fives, and tens with models and pictures to count collections of objects

Science

• Classify living things
• Investigate the needs of a variety of animals
• Learn about a wide variety of living things

Social Studies

• Analyze patterns of movement in a community or region
• Compare and contrast geographic features of places among communities
• Compare and contrast geographic features of places within various communities
• Consider similarities and differences among individuals and families
• Locate places on a map