__ 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

__ 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 our 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, and planets.
__ Simple constellations.
__ Exploring space.

__ Reading silently for specific purposes.
__ Dramatizations and interpretation 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.
__ 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

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

__ Counting, reading, and writing to 1,000.
__ Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 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.