Summary of Skills

Unit 1: States of Matter [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Compose a variety of products using the writing process
• Determine important ideas in a text, draw conclusions, identify causes and effects, and make predictions
• Develop new vocabulary by listening to and discussing new words presented in text
• Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences
• Explain what will happen next in a story
• Independently read aloud with fluency and comprehension text designed for emergent readers
• Listen critically to, interpret, and evaluate
• Listen responsively to stories and other text read aloud
• Read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Respond and elaborate in answering what, when, where, and how questions
• Use basic capitalization and punctuation
• Use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Use nouns and verbs in sentences
• Use words that describe in language and text
• Use words that describe, name characters and settings, and tell action and events in simple texts
• Write or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (ex: writing different ending for a story, composing a poem)
• Write sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation

Math

• Collect, organize, and display data
• Compare, using appropriate language, with respect to the attribute selected
• Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations
• Create and extend patterns
• Select an attribute (length, capacity, or weight) to measure
• Solve problems involving applications of time

Science

• Classify liquids according to their properties
• Classify solids according to their properties
• Collect information using tools
• Compare materials
• Compare objects and living organisms
• Describe and sort a variety of Earth materials based on their properties
• Describe differences between liquids and solids
• Describe differences in properties of liquids and solids
• Investigate ways objects can be sorted, described, or classified
• Plan and conduct simple investigations

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

Language Arts

• Compose a variety of products using the writing process
• Listen critically to, interpret, and evaluate
• Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension
• Select and use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Self-monitor composition by rereading
• Use basic capitalization in punctuation
• Use complete sentences when writing
• Use words to describe objects, people, and events

Math

• Compare and sort objects by two attributes
• Compare two objects using appropriate language
• Create, model, and solve problems that use addition and subtraction
• Describe and display data using graphs
• Develop fluency in solving addition and subtraction problems
• Develop fluency with single- and double-digit addition
• Identify, build, draw, and name a variety of shapes
• Interpret data presented on a graph
• Order numbers in a set
• Solve problems involving spatial visualization
• Solve problems using spatial visualization
• Use groupings of ten to count objects

Science

• Classify Earth materials
• Compare examples of ways living things depend on each other
• Conduct simple investigations
• Describe and sort Earth materials based on their properties
• Describe and sort materials based on their properties
• Describe natural resources
• Discuss the wide variety of materials and living things on Earth
• Explore Earth resources and how they are used
• Explore where Earth materials are found and how they are used
• Identify how Earth materials can be recycled
• Identify how environments support the needs of living things
• Investigate the needs of plants and animals
• Observe the mixing of liquids

Social Studies

• Demonstrate responsibility for the care and management of the environment
• Demonstrate responsibility for the care of the environment within the school and community
• Explore physical features of continents and major bodies of water
• Identify landforms and bodies of water
• Recognize that members of a community are affected by changes in a community
• Use geographic terminology and tools to create representations of the Earth's physical and human features through simple maps, models, and pictures

Unit 3: Balance and Motion [LA] [S] [SS]

Language Arts

• Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary after listening to text
• Extend skills in oral and written language using graphic organizers
• Listen responsively to stories and other text read aloud
• Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text
• Recognize and relate concepts across experiences
• Recognize singular and plural nouns
• Select and use new vocabulary in speech and writing
• Use -s, -es, -ed, and -ing correctly
• Use vocabulary to describe clearly feelings, ideas, and experiences

Math

• Compare and contrast geometrical figures
• Develop fluency with single-digit addition
• Identify and build cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms
• Identify symmetrical objects
• Identify, build, and draw parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons
• Model and create addition problems using concrete objects
• Read and write numbers 0-99 to describe sets of objects
• Use grouping of twos, fives, and tens

Science

• Describe and observe systems that are unstable and modify them to reach equilibrium
• Describe different ways in which objects can be moved
• Identify foods that are healthy and unhealthy
• Investigate and observe that objects can move steadily or change direction
• Observe and describe balance
• Observe and describe balance as a function of position and weight
• Observe that pushing or pulling can affect the movement of an object