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HOME EDUCATOR'S NETWORK, INC.
A SUGGESTED

1^{st
GRADE CURRICULUM}

SOCIAL STUDIES

Holidays, traditions and customs.
Our American Heritage.
Different cultures at different times.
Family, school, neighborhood, and community.
Farm and zoo.
Neighborhood helpers.
Jobs and careers.
Social skills and responsibilities.
Basic geography terms.
Making and reading a simple neighborhood map.

SCIENCE

Grouping and classification.
Living and nonliving things.
Animals: Pets, Farm animals, Zoo and circus animals,
Woodland animals, Common birds.
Plants and animal habitats.
Seeds, bulbs, plants, and flowers
Weather and seasons.
Day and night.
Solids, liquids, and gases.
Air and water.
Magnets.
Fire and temperature.
Sun, moon, stars, and planets.
Simple machines.
Beginning experimentation.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading: Phonetic analysis; Structural analysis; Establishing sight vocabulary; Reading informally - names, labels, and signs, for example.
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, and adjectives.
Introduction to punctuation and capitalization. Manuscript handwriting.
Handling books.
Using table of contents.
Development of class newspaper.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

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

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 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, and quarter.
Solving simple word problems.
Basic probability and chance.
Basic chart and graph concepts.

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