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Reading/English/Language Arts

Concepts of Print:  ELAKR1:  The student demonstrates knowledge of concepts in print.

• Recognizes that print and pictures (signs and labels, newspapers, and informational books) can inform, entertain, and persuade

• Demonstrates that print has meaning and represents spoken language in written form

• Tracks text read from left to right and top to bottom

Phonological Awareness:  ELAKR2:  The student demonstrates the ability to identify and orally manipulate words and individual sounds within spoken words.

• Identifies and produces rhyming words in response to an oral prompt and distinguishes rhyming and non-rhyming words.

• Identifies component sounds (phonemes and combinations of phonemes) in spoken words

• Blends and segments syllables in spoken words

Phonics:  ELAKR3:  The student demonstrates the relationship between letters and letter combinations of written words and the sounds of spoken words

• Demonstrates an understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between print and spoken sounds

• Recognizes and names all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet

Fluency:  ELAKR4:  The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression

Vocabulary:  ELAKR5: The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively

• Listens to a variety of texts and uses new vocabulary in oral language

• Discusses the meaning of words and understands that some words have multiple meanings

Comprehension:  ELAKR6: The student gains meaning from orally presented text.

• Listens to and reads a variety of literary (short stories and poems) and informational texts and materials to gain knowledge and for pleasure

• Makes predictions from pictures and titles

• Asks and answers questions about essential narrative elements (beginning-middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, and resolution) of a read-aloud text

• Connects life experiences to read-aloud text

• Retells important facts in the student’s own words

Writing:  ELAKW1:  The student begins to understand the principles of writing

• Writes or dictates to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or experiences

• Uses drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to create meaning

• Accurately prints name, all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet, and teacher-selected words.

• Uses left-right patterns of writing

Listening/Speaking/Viewing:  ELAKLSV1:  The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate

• Listens and speaks appropriately with peers and adults

• Follows 2-part oral directions

• Repeats auditory sequences (letters, words, numbers, and rhythmic patterns)

• Recites short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns

• Describes people, places, things, locations, and actions

• Increases vocabulary to reflect a growing range of interests and knowledge

• Communicates effectively when relating experiences and retelling stories heard

• Uses complete sentences when speaking

• Begins to use subject-verb agreement and tense correctly

Math

MEASUREMENT MKM1: Students will group objects according to common properties such as longer/shorter, more/less, taller/shorter, and heavier/lighter.

• Compare and order objects on the basis of length.

• Compare and order objects on the basis of capacity.

• Compare and order objects on the basis of height.

• Compare and order objects on the basis of weight.

GEOMETRY MKG1: Students will correctly name simple two and three-dimensional figures, and recognize them in the environment.

• Recognize and name the following basic two-dimensional figures: triangles,  rectangles, squares, and circles.

GEOMETRY MKG2: Students will understand basic spatial relationships.

• Identify when an object is beside another object, above another object, or below another object.

• Identify when an object is in front of another object, behind another object, inside another object or outside it.

GEOMETRY  MKG3: Students will identify, create, extend, and transfer patterns from one representation to another using actions, objects, and geometric shapes.

• Identify a missing shape within a given pattern of geometric shapes.

• Extend a given pattern, and recognize similarities (such as color, shape, texture, or number) in different patterns.

NUMBER AND OPERATION MKN1:  Students will connect numerals to the quantities they represent.

• Count a number of objects up to 30.

• Produce models for number words through ten.

• Write numerals through 20 to label sets.

• Compare two or more sets of objects (1-10) and identify which set is equal to, more than, or less than the other.

• Estimate quantities using five and ten as a benchmark. (e.g. 9 is one five and four more. It is closer to two fives or one 10 than it is to one five.).

Process Standards MKP1:  Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology).

• Build new mathematical knowledge thorough problem solving.

Process Standards MKP2: Students will reason and evaluate mathematical arguments.

• Recognize reasoning and proof as fundamental aspects of mathematics.

• Make and investigate mathematical conjectures.

• Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments and proofs.

• Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof.

Process Standards MKP3:  Students will communicate mathematically.

• Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.

• Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

• Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.

• Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

Process Standards MKP4: Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.

• Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.

• Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.

• Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.

Process Standards MKP5: Students will represent mathematics in multiple ways.

• Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.

• Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems.

• Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

Science

Earth Science SKE1: Students will describe time patterns (such as day to night and night to day) and objects (such as sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.

• Describe changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during the night, and as night turns into day.

• Classify objects according to those seen in the day sky and those seen in the night sky.

• Recognize that the Sun supplies heat and light to Earth.

Earth Science:  SKE2:  Students will describe the physical attributes of rocks and soils

• Use senses to observe and group rocks by physical attributes such as large/small, heavy/light, smooth/rough, dark/light, etc.

• Uses senses to observe soils by physical attributes such as smell, texture, color, particle/grain size

• Recognize earth materials---soil, rocks, water, air, etc

Social Studies

Historical Understandings: SSKH1: The student will identify the purpose of national holidays and describe the people or events celebrated.

• Labor Day

Historical Understandings: SSKH2: The student will identify important American symbols and explain their meaning.

• Pledge of Allegiance

Historical Understandings: SSKH3: The student will correctly use words and phrases related to chronology and time to explain how things change.

• Morning, afternoon, night
• Today, tomorrow, yesterday
• First, last, next
• Day, week, month, year

Government/Civic Understandings: SSKCG1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship

• Explain how rules are made and why.
• Explain why rules should be followed.

Government/Civic Understandings: SSKCG2: The student will retell stories that illustrate positive character traits and will explain how the people in the stories show the qualities of honesty, patriotism, loyalty, courtesy, respect, truth, pride, self-control, moderation, and accomplishment.

Economic Understandings: SSKE1: The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).

Economic Understandings: SSKE2: The student will explain that people earn income by exchanging their human resources (physical or mental work) for wages or salaries.

Economic Understandings: SSKE3:  The student will explain how money is used to purchase goods and services.

• Distinguish goods from services.
• Identify various forms of U.S. money (coins, currency).

Economic Understandings: SSKE4: The student will explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

Information Processing Skills

• Compare similarities and differences
• Identify issues and/or problems and alternative solutions

 

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