1ST
(This information taken from The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade, Jr. and Others)

SOCIAL STUDIES

● Holidays, traditions, and customs
● Our American heritage
● Different cultures at different times
● Family, school, neighborhood, and community
● Farm and zoo
● Neighborhood helpers
● Jobs and careers
● Social skills and responsibilities
● Basic geography terms
● Making and reading a simple neighborhood map

SCIENCE

● Grouping and classification
● Living and nonliving things
● Animals: Pets, Farm animals, Zoo and circus animals, Woodland animals, Common birds
● Plants and animal habitats
● Seeds, bulbs, plants, and flowers
● Weather and seasons Day and night
● Solids, liquids, and gases
● Air and water
● Magnets
● Fire and temperature
● Sun, moon, stars, and planets
● Simple machines
● Beginning experimentation

LANGUAGE ARTS

● Reading: Phonetic analysis; Structural analysis; Establishing sight vocabulary; Reading informally-names, labels, and signs, for example
● Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
● Creating stories and poems
● Telling favorite stories
● Organizing ideas and impressions
● Enunciation and pronunciation
● Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity
● Book reports and critiques
● Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion
● Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
● Beginning spelling
● Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, and adjectives
● Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
● Manuscript handwriting
● Handling books
● Using table of contents
● Development of class newspaper

HEALTH AND SAFETY

● Personal hygiene
● Dental health
● Good eating habits
● Exercise and rest
● Diseases
● Common cold
● Dressing for weather and activity
● Safety rules to and from school

MATHEMATICS

● Counting and writing to 100
● Counting by 2's to 40
● Simple number patterns
● Beginning ordinal numbers
● Using 10 as basic unit
● Simple properties of zero
● Simple properties of sets
● Beginning addition and subtraction facts
● Number line use
● Place value and numeration
● Concepts of quantity and size
● Concepts of equality and inequality
● Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers
● Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately
● Estimation
● Geometric patterns and figures
● Basic customary and metric measurement
● Recognizing time: clock and calendar
● Value of penny, nickel, dime, and quarter
● Solving simple word problems
● Basic probability and chance
● Basic chart and graph concepts

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