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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
• Distinguishes among written letters, words, and sentences
• Recognizes that sentences in print are made up of separate words
• Begins to understand that punctuation and capitalization are used in all written sentences

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
• Segments the phonemes in high-frequency words
• Blends spoken phonemes to make high frequency 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
• Matches all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters
• Blends individual sounds to read one-syllable decodable words
• Applies learned phonics skills when reading words and sentences in stories

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

• Reads previously taught grade level text with appropriate expression
• Reads previously taught high frequency words at the rate of 30 words correct per minute

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
• Retells familiar events and stories to include beginning, middle, and end
• Begins to distinguish fact from fiction in a read-aloud text
• Uses prior knowledge, graphic features (illustrations), and graphic organizers to understand text

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
• Begins to use capitalization at the beginning of sentences and punctuation (periods and question marks) at the end of sentences

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

MEASUREMENT:  MKM2:  Students will understand the measurement of calendar time

• Know names of the days of the week
• Know the months of the year
• Know the four seasons

MEASUREMENT:  MKM3:  Students will tell time as it relates to a daily schedule

• Order daily events
• Tell the time when daily events occur, such as morning, afternoon, and night
• Know the name of the day of the week when weekly events occur in class

 

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

• Sequence and identify using ordinal numbers (1st – 10th)
• Identify coins by name and value (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter)
• Count out pennies to buy items that together cost less than 30 cents
• Make fair trades involving combinations of pennies and nickels or pennies and dimes.

 

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

• Build new mathematical knowledge thorough problem solving
• Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts

• Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems

 

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

Life Science:  SKL1:  Students will sort living organisms and non-living materials into groups by observable physical attributes

• Recognize the difference between living organisms and nonliving materials
• Group animals according to their observable features such as appearance, size, motion, where it lives, etc.  (Example:  A green frog has four legs and hops.  A rabbit also hops.)
• Group plants according to their observable feature such as appearance, size, etc

 

Life Science:  SKL2:  Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of

organisms.

• Explain the similarities and differences in animals. (color, size, appearance, etc.)
• Explain the similarities and differences in plants. (color, size, appearance, etc.)
• Recognize the similarities and differences between a parent and a baby
• Match pictures of animal parents and their offspring explaining your reasoning. (Example:  dog/puppy; cat/kitten; cow/calf; duck/duckling, etc.)
• Recognize that you are similar and different from other students. (senses, appearance)

Social Studies

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

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Presidents Day (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the current President)
• Memorial Day
• Flag Day
• Independence Day

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

• The national and state flags (United States and Georgia flags)
• The bald eagle
• The Statue of Liberty
• Lincoln Memorial
• Washington Monument
• White House
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Star Spangled Banner

Geographic Understanding: SSKG1: The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs.

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
• Organize items chronologically
• Identify issues and/or problems and alternative solutions

Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills:

• Skip
• Gallop
• Slide

 

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