Language Literacy

• Knows basic sight vocabulary
• Uses phonics, grammar and meaning to read unknown words
• Reads with fluency

• Recalls facts and information
• Uses higher-level strategies: Predicting, Identifying Main Idea, Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
• Makes personal responses to books and stories
• Reads independently for pleasure and information
• Reads grade level text

• Uses steps of the writing process: Ideas, Organization and Conventions (Spelling, Capitalization and Punctuation)
• Tries different forms of writing: Personal Narrative, Fiction, Nonfiction, Persuasive and Poetry
• Demonstrates growing independence and confidence as a writer

• The student will know the definition of research.
• The student will be able to identify materials, with assistance, appropriate to student reading ability.
• The student will know we make connections (text to self, text to text and text to world).
• The student will know there are different literary genres.
• The student will recognize historical fiction, biographies, folk tales, tall tales and poetry when a book in one of these genres is read to them.
• Students will know the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
• Students will understand that fiction uses letters and nonfiction uses numbers as organizational tools.
• Students will understand that fiction is divided into an everybody section and a fiction section for chapter books.
• Students will understand that fiction uses letters and nonfiction uses numbers as organizational tools.
• Students will understand there is a way to find books using the computer.
• Students will use a shelf marker.
• Students will follow the norms and procedures that are in place for the library, such as check in and check out.
• Students will begin to sort and locate books to the second letter using the authorʼs last name.
• Students will begin to sort and locate books to the whole number in the Dewey Decimal System.

• Use a variety of drawing techniques with control.

• Use light colors next to dark colors for value contrast.
• Identify differences among forms in the environment.
• Identify size relationships within an arrangement.
• Identify and use warm and cool colors and color groupings.
• Create illusions of texture.

• Identify and discuss basic art media used by artists to create works of art.
• Use art works from other times and cultures as guides for the visual expression of ideas and experiences.

• Describe how visual forms contribute to group identification.
• Describe how visual images are used for celebrating important life events in a variety of cultures.

• Describe similarities and differences between natural and constructed forms.

• Identify and describe the reasons that people create art.

• Safety at school, home and playground.

• Hygiene.
• Self care techniques.
• Personal responsibility.

• Major organs.
• Five senses.

• Skeletal, muscular, circulatory and respiratory systems.

• Benefits of a balanced diet.
• Food plate.
  
  

Physical Education

• Locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulatives, body management, movement concepts and developmental games.

• Health and skill-related fitness, wellness and fitness principles.

• Essential elements of rhythm, creative/interpretive dance, rhythmic activities, forms of dance and social/cultural aspects of dance.

• Skill techniques, individual/dual/team sports and specialized activities.

• Cooperation/Team building activities.

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Add and subtract within 20.
• Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.

• Understand place value.
• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.

• Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
• Relate addition and subtraction to length.
• Work with time and money.
• Represent and interpret data.

• Develop a curiosity and interest in the physical world around them.
• Observe, describe and sort earth materials based on properties.
• Separate earth materials by size, using different techniques.
• Observe the similarities and differences in the materials in a river rock mixture: silt, sand, gravel and small and large pebbles.
• Explore places where earth materials are found and ways earth materials are used.
• Compare the ingredients in different soils.
• Organize and communicate observations through drawing and writing.
• Acquire the vocabulary associated with earth materials.

• Develop a growing curiosity and interest in the motion of objects.
• Investigate materials constructively during free exploration and in a guided discovery mode.
• Solve problems through trial and error.
• Develop persistence in tackling a problem.
• Explore concepts of balance, counterweight and stability.
• Observe systems that are unstable and modify them to reach equilibrium.
• Discover different ways to produce rotational motion.
• Construct and observe toys that spin.
• Explore and describe some of the variables that influence the spinning of objects.
• Observe and compare rolling systems with different-sized wheels.
• Explore and describe the motion of rolling spheres.
• Acquire the vocabulary associated with balance and motion.
  

• Develop a curiosity and interest in plants as living things.
• Provide for the needs of growing plants and animals.
• Observe and describe the changes that occur as plants grow and develop.
• Become familiar with the structures and functions of flowering plants (root, stem and leaf).
• Discover various ways that new plants can develop from mature plants.
• Compare the basic needs of common plants and animals.
• Experience some of the diversity of forms in the plant and animals kingdoms and become aware of features that help plants and animals thrive in different habitats.
• Learn that some animals eat plants and others use them for shelter and nesting.
• Compare structure and function of different animals’ teeth.
• Organize and communicate observations through drawing and writing.
• Acquire the vocabulary associated with the structures, needs and habitats of plants and animals.
• Draw pictures and portray features of objects.
• Record observations and data with pictures, numbers and words.

Social Studies

• Compare and contrast absolute and relative location.
• Locate school, community, state and country on a map.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between seasons, climate and geography.
• Define natural resources.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the various ways in which a location influences the way in which people live.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the culture of our local community.

• Begin to demonstrate an understanding of the local history of our community.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the roles of producers and consumers in our community.
• Observe the way in which our community meets the needs of its citizens.
• Identify economic concepts such as scarcity, market, supply and demand.

• Demonstrate an understanding of citizens’ rights and responsibilities as a member of a community
• Identify the functions of government.
• Identify the structure of local, state and federal government.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the current structure of government and contemporary applications of economics in our community.
  
  

Technology

• use input devices (e.g. mouse and keyboard) and output devices (e.g. monitor and printer) to successfully operate computers and other technologies.
• use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and independent learning activities.
• use developmentally appropriate multimedia resources (e.g. interactive books, educational software and elementary multimedia encyclopedias) to support learning.
• demonstrate positive social and ethical behaviors when using technology.
• practice responsible use and care of technology systems and software.
• create developmentally appropriate multimedia products with support from teachers, family members or student partners.
• use available technology for problem solving, communication and illustration of thoughts, ideas and stories.
• communicate about technology using developmentally appropriate and accurate terminology (e.g., login, shut down, files, etc.).

• identify the school supplies they use.
• describe the weather.
• say the alphabet in Spanish
• name members of the family and tell the size of family.
• identify common rooms in the house.
• use numbers to tell date, count objects, count by tens and say how old they are.
• identify body parts and talk about aches and ailments.
• describe geography of Mexico using the capital, climate and terrain.
• use the compass rose.
• locate Mexico and USA on a world map.
• state preference for various Mexican foods and tropical fruits.
• identify plants and animals in the rainforest and describe them using Es... and Tiene...

• Perform and recognize steps, leaps and repeats.
• High and low pitches in melodies.

• Recognize and perform quarter note/rest and eighth notes.
• Recognize and perform music in sets of two and three.

• Recognize and perform repeat signs, solo/chorus and verse/refrain.