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Curriculum Standards
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3-4
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Social Studies
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- Holidays, traditions, and
customs
- Our American Heritage
- Different cultures at different times
- Family, school, neighborhood, community
- Farm and zoo
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- Neighborhood helpers
- Jobs and careers
- Social skills and responsibilities
- Basic geography terms
- Making and reading a simple neighborhood map
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Science
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- Grouping and classification
- Living and nonliving things
- Animals
- Pets
- Farm animals
- Zoo and circus animals
- Woodland animals
- Common birds
- Plant and animal habitats
- Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers
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- Weather and seasons
- Day and night
- Solids, liquids, gases
- Air and water
- Magnets
- Fire and temperature
- Sun, moon, stars, planets
- Simple machines
- Beginning experimentation
- Scientific method and scientific inquiry
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Language Arts
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- Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary
- Reading informally: names, labels, signs
- Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
- Creating stories and poems
- Telling favorite stories
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Enunciation and pronunciation
- Presenting information orally, in sequence
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- Book reports and critiques
- Discussion skills: taking part in group
discussion
- Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
- Beginning spelling
- Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
- Introduction to punctuation and
capitalization
- Manuscript handwriting
- Handling books
- Using table of contents
- Development of a class newspaper
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Health and Safety
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- Personal hygiene
- Dental health
- Good eating habits
- Exercise and rest
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- Diseases
- Common cold
- Dressing for weather and activity
- Safety rules to and from school
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Mathematics
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- Counting and writing to 100
- Counting by 2's to 40
- Simple number patterns
- Beginning ordinal numbers
- Using 10 as a 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
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- 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, quarter
- Solving simple word problems
- Basic probability and chance
- Basic chart and graph concepts
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Social Studies
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- Holidays and festivals
- Patriotic celebrations
- Communities in other lands: past and present
- Family and family history
- Families around the world
- Neighborhoods
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- Community services and
helpers
- Shelters, stores, and food
- Citizenship and social responsibility
- Interdependence of people
- Basic geography: oceans, continents
- Map skills
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Science
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- Useful and harmful animals
- Life cycle
- Birds 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
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- 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
- Sun, moon, planets
- Simple constellations
- Exploring space
- Scientific method and scientific inquiry
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Language Arts
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- 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
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- 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
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Health and Safety
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- Personal cleanliness
- Dental hygiene
- Basic food groups
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- Communicable diseases
- Preventive measures against disease
- Neighborhood safety
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Mathematics
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- 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
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- 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 and using the calendar
- Handling money (coins)
- Problem solving
- Charts and graphs
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