Social Studies
Holidays and festivals Patriotic celebrations Communities in other lands: past and present Family and family history Families around the world Neighborhoods		Community services and helpers Shelters, stores, and food Citizenship and social responsibility Interdependence of people Basic geography: oceans continents Map skills

Science
Useful and harmful animals Life cycle Bird and insects in winter Animal babies Animal defense of themselves and their young Plant and animal food Dinosaurs and other extinct animals Food chain Plant reproduction and growth Habitats and homes Weather and its effects on Earth		Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants Climate Water cycle Air and atmosphere Magnets and forces Gravity Earth and sky Simple constellations Exploring space Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts
Reading silently for purpose Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading Story development: beginning, middle, end Simple book reviews Listening skills Organizing ideas and impressions Alphabetizing through second letter of a word Using dictionary guide words Vocabulary development		Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms Methods of word attack Ways to study spelling Simple punctuation and capitalization Refining manuscript handwriting Writing independently in manuscript form Brief and simple letters and journals Narration, description, letters, poetry Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

Health & Safety
Personal cleanliness Dental hygiene Basic food groups		Communicable diseases Preventive measures against disease Neighborhood safety

Mathmatics
Counting, reading, writing to 1,000 Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 10's Ordinal numbers to 10 Zero as a place holder Using sets and number facts Addition and subtraction facts to 20 Basic multiplication and division facts Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations Multiplication properties of 0 and 1 Place value through 100's		Fractions in daily life Decimal numeration system Basic concept of ratio Geometry puzzles and activities Estimation Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume shape, temperature Telling time using the calendar Handling money (coins) Problem solving Charts and graphs

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