Typical Course of Study. K 3 rd grades

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1 Typical Course of Study K 3 rd grades

2 Social Studies Human Relationships o Role in Family, school, neighborhood, community including citizenship and social responsibility o Neighborhood and Community services and helpers o Interdependence of people o Social skills including manners, etiquette, and awareness of others o Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions o Consumers and producers o Basic human needs and their sources ie: food, clothing, and shelter o Family and family history o Safety rules and symbols Geography o Basic geography terms and map skills o Making and reading a simple neighborhood map o Location and diagram of home o Local geography and topography o U. S. geography and regions o The continents o Flat maps and globes: oceans, continents Cultures o Holidays, traditions, and customs, including patriotic holidays o Understanding and appreciating different cultures o Farm and zoo o Communities in other lands: past and present Occupations o Occupations History o History and development of local community o Our American Heritage o Native Americans o Explorers and pioneers o History and development of transportation o History and development of communication

3 Science Life Science o Grouping and classification of living and nonliving things o Life Cycle o Food Chain o Interrelationships of animals and plants o Plant and animal food o Habitats and Homes o Common animals o Animal babies o Pets and their care o Farm animals o Zoo and circus animals o Common birds o Animals in winter o Animal helpers o Useful and harmful animals o Animal defense of themselves and their young o Woodland animals o Desert animals o Sea Animals o Common plants, trees, and flowers o Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers o Plant reproduction and growth o Like and unlike plants o Indoor plants o Forest plants o Desert plants o Sea Plants o Senses o Parts of the body o Physical fitness Physical Science o Observation of everyday, familiar things o Scientific method and scientific inquiry o Simple measurement o Beginning experimentation o Solids, liquids, gases o Fire and temperature o Light and color o Magnets o Compass o Electricity o Gravity o Energy and its sources o Force and work o Simple machines Earth Science o The sun: our principal source of energy o Earth o Moon o Stars and Simple constellations o Planets o Earth satellites o Exploring space o Day and night o Seasons o Weather o Temperature o Weather and its effects on earth o Water Cycle o Air and atmosphere o Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants o Earth's changing surface Health/Safety o Personal hygiene o Dental health o Care of eyes and ears o Good eating habits including nutrition and basic food groups o Exercise and rest o Diseases and their prevention o Common cold o Dressing for weather and activity o Safety rules in the home and community o Simple first aid o Parts of the body o Physical fitness o Healthful leisure activities o Proper balance of activities o Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing Ecology o Dinosaurs and other extinct animals o Conservation of plants and animals

4 Language Arts Writing o Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, and adjectives o Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks o Capitalization o Concept of paragraph o Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms o Beginning writing process o Brief and simple letters and journals o Writing independently in manuscript form o Creating short, original stories and poems o Writing short, original stories and poems o Relating events and experiences using complete sentences o Book reports and critiques o Post writing skills: editing and proofreading Reading/Spelling o Reading informally: names, labels, and signs o Phonics o Establishing sight vocabulary o Methods of word attack o Ways to study spelling o How to handle books o Reading prose and poetry aloud o Familiarity with nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables o Silent reading o Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word o Dictionary skills o Using table of contents o Using index o Increasing indexing skills Handwriting o Manuscript handwriting o Refining manuscript handwriting o Beginning cursive writing Listening Skills o Constructing visual images while listening o Following and giving directions o Listening for correct speech habits and word usage o Listening to literature, music, poetry o Narration o Organizing ideas o Paraphrasing and summarizing o Social listening Oral Skills o Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity and accuracy o Simple pantomimes and dramatic play o Telling favorite stories o Oral communication skills o Role play o Experience stories o Taking part in group discussion o Enunciation and pronunciation

5 Math Counting o Number-line use o Simple counting to 20 o Counting and writing to 100 o Place value through 100's o Counting, reading, writing to 1,000 o Reading and writing numbers to 5 places o Counting by 2's to 40 o Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's o Ordinal-cardinal relationship o Ordinal numbers through ten o Number-numeral relationship o Place value and numeration Time o Telling Time o Using the calendar o Time to 1- and 5-minute measures Money o Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter o Handling money (coins) o Denominations of money Geometry o Recognizing shapes o Geometric patterns and figures o Geometry puzzles and activities o Geometric constructions o Similar and congruent figures o Properties of solid figures o Perimeter, area, volume Basic Skills o Concepts of more, less than, same o Concepts of equality and inequality o Correspondence of quantities o Recognition of basic sets o Simple number patterns o Rounding numbers o Positive and negative numbers in daily life o Properties of one o Simple properties of zero o Simple properties of sets o Using 10 as a basic unit o Meaning of addition and subtraction o Beginning addition and subtraction facts o Addition and subtraction facts to 20 o Addition and subtraction facts to 25 o Zero as a place holder o Basic multiplication and division facts o Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations o Multiplication properties of 0 and 1 o Multiplication and division facts to 100 o Beginning Roman numerals Measurement o Concepts of quantity and size measures of time measures of weight measures of length measures of volume measures of shape measures of temperature Fractions, Decimals, Ratios o Fractions in daily life o Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately o Simple fractions and equivalents o Decimal numeration system o Basic concept of ratio o One-to-one relationship Problem Solving o Sequence of events o Solving simple word problems o Basic probability and chance o Basic chart and graph concepts o Problems-solving analysis o Estimation of outcomes