• Holidays
• Character Education
• Communities
• Families - past and present

• Animal Classification and Needs
• Plant Parts, Needs & Functions
• Properties and Uses of Soil
• The Day Sky

• Number Concepts
  • Understanding Addition an Subtraction
  • Working with Numbers and Operations
  • Working with Time, Length and Money
  • Number Patterns
  • Number to 100
  • Working with Measurement and Geometry
  • Equal Parts and Fractions
  • Working with Two-Digit Numbers
  • Estimation and Graphing

• Comprehension of a story
  • Problems/solutions
  • Recognize story patterns
  • Retells most of story unaided

• Sequences story events
• Reads for own purposes during free reading
• Responds to literature on personal level
• Starting to read with expression
• Predicts outcome
• Spacing between different words and letters
• Knows and uses all cueing system strategies:
  • Meaning (using picture)
  • Structure (language pattern)
  • Visual (chunks & letters)
• Knows and uses all letters and sounds
• Knows 2 & 3 letter blends
  • Diagraphs
  • Diphthongs
    
• Uses new word strategies
  • Word families
  • Chunking
  • Rhyming to decode

• Hears syllables
• Uses picture clues to predict word
• One to one correspondence
• Vowel recognition
  • Short and long
• Recognition of most high frequency words in Houghton Mifflin
• Uses self correction
• Knows base words and suffixes
• Writing
  • Write upper and lower case letters of the manuscript alphabet
  • Communicate a complete thought in writing using a combination of invented and regular spelling
  • Write a simple story with an identifiable beginning, middle, and end
  • Share writing with an audience through publication or oral presentation
  • Respond to various selections