All children acquire knowledge in different ways, so we will be using a wide variety of approaches to help our class become able to read, write, and work with numbers. Children learn by doing. I will provide an environment to help each child achieve their personal best. The following is a brief list of some of the skills we will be working on.

Reading:

- Track words from left to right & top to bottom

- Use one-to-one correspondence to track printed words

of a text

- Recognize and produce rhyming words

- Blend spoken sounds to form one-syllable words

- Identify the initial and final sounds of a spoken word

- Segment a one-syllable word into its individual sounds

- Recognize capital and lower case letters

- Identify letter sounds

- Make predictions about stories

- Identify characters, setting, and story events

- Sequence story events

- Hold tools correctly

- Write first and last name in proper form

- Write capital and lower case letters correctly

- Write sentences using a capital letter to begin, spaces

between words, and a period.

Math:

- Count in order 1-100

- Identify numbers 1-100

- Write numbers in order from 1-20

- Represent numbers using manipulatives

- Count objects in sets

- Model addition through sums of 10 using manipulatives

- Model subtraction through sums of 10 using manipulatives

- Identify shapes

- Identify, create, and extend patterns

- Tell time to the half hour

- Sort & classify objects by attributes (size, color, etc.)

http://www.vail.k12.az.us/newcurriculum/index.php

http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/contentstandards.asp