EXPECTATIONS:

 

Social Skills:

Learn to work in cooperative groups. Work independently. Follow directions.

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ACADEMIC SKILLS:

 

Speech

• Clearly pronounce words.

• Well-taken dictation during spelling tests.

• Give oral reports.

• Recite poetry.

 

Math

• Master basic addition and subtraction.

• Introduction to borrowing, regrouping, measuring, multiplication, and money.

• Express place value through 99.

• Count by two, five, and ten to 100.

• Identify one-half, one-fourth, and one-third of a whole.

 

English

• Sentence structure, parts of speech, punctuation, and creative writing.

• Complete ideas and develop paragraphs.

• Write sentences and combine sentences.

• Proofread and edit.

 

Science

• Learn about animals, the human body, life science, plants, dinosaurs, earth science, the elements, and weather.

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History/Social Science

• Number of days in a week, year, etc. and holidays.

• Community safety.

• Government.

• Simple geography.

 

Reading

• Prepositions.

• Recognize rhyming words given orally.

• Discern auditory difference in long-vowel sounds.

• Identify name of letter representing long and short vowel sounds.

• Draw inference from sentence context.

 

Writing

• Writing neatly and focus on forming letters correctly.

• Identify irregular spellings that must simply be learned since they depart from basic alphabetical principles.

• Learn the relationship between sound and letter.

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