• Practice reading grade-appropriate texts with scaffolded support
• Summarize stories in three parts and retell with important details
• Describe elements of a story
• Answer questions about texts; vary cognitive questioning level
• Read different types of text and identify key characteristics of each
• Explore approaches to writing and how they change the way the reader understands and responds to text
• Identify words that create connections and imagery for the reader
• Use diagrams and organizational tools to compare and contrast texts and characters
• Identify the main idea and supporting details of a text
• Understand the purpose and use of the features of nonfiction books
• Develop an awareness of syllable structure and apply this to improve decoding skills
• Apply knowledge of long vowel patterns to read simple words with long vowel sounds
• With support, write various types of text and include characteristic features of each genre
•Use proper conventions in writing to an age-appropriate degree

• In collaboration with others, learn about a topic and then write about it, considering the use of digital tools to share information

• Recognize a variety of situations that call for addition and subtraction within 20 including regrouping and apply effective strategies for solving
• Count to 120, write and represent numbers, compare values using concrete representations, drawings, and an understanding of place value
• Place value: ones, tens, and hundreds
• Adding three or more numbers
• Develop efficient methods of adding and subtracting multiples of ten
• Understand and apply a variety of strategies for addition and subtraction and determine which is most useful in a given situation
• Measure and compare lengths by using non-standard repeated units
• Tell time to the hour and half hour with both digital and analog clocks
• Recognize defining characteristics of 2- and 3-dimensional shapes and sort and classify based on shape attributes
• Begin to understand fractions both as parts and subsets
• Make and interpret graphs of data with three categories

• • Read books, visit museums and zoos, try experiments, watch videos, explore outside
• Follow your child’s interests and take advantage of opportunities
• Investigate light and sound
• Learn about how plants and animals survive
• Observe patterns in the sun, moon, and stars and the amount of daylight through the year
• Use the scientific method to ask questions, investigate, and draw conclusions

• Understand that the way people live has changed over time and we can learn about people of the past through photographs, artifacts, and writings
• Understand that a limited amount of goods and money prevents us from having everything we want, so we have to make choices and put needs first
• Identify trading and currency as ways people obtain goods and services they need and want
• Explore that places around the world look different and can be identified by landforms, bodies of water, and structures people have built
• Use maps to locate places
• Understand that to live and work with others in a society, people have to respect one another, treat others fairly, and take responsibility for their own actions

• Exposure to famous works and artists/composers
• Opportunity to try various art mediums and instruments
• Explore rhythm and dynamics
• Move to different kinds of music
• Talk about how different pieces of art and music “feel”

• Run, play, jump, throw, climb, balance – be active!
• Develop an awareness that different games and sports have different rules that must be followed and specific equipment that is required
• Begin to understand what good sportsmanship means and requires