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Curriculum Standards 1-2
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1st Grade

Typical Course of Study

 
 
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
  • Neighborhood helpers
  • Jobs and careers
  • Social skills and responsibilities
  • Basic geography terms
  • Making and reading a simple neighborhood map
 
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
  • 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
 
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 and with clarity
  • 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
 

Health and Safety

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  • 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

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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
  • 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
 

2nd Grade

Typical Course of Study

 
 
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
  • Community services and helpers
  • Shelters, stores, and food
  • Citizenship and social responsibility
  • Interdependence of people
  • Basic geography: oceans, continents
  • Map skills
 
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
  • 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
 

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
  • 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 and Safety

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  • Personal cleanliness
  • Dental hygiene
  • Basic food groups
  • Communicable diseases
  • Preventive measures against disease
  • Neighborhood safety
 
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
  • 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

See Third and Fourth grades here.