Standards

Language Arts

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details

Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

Math

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems, using objects, drawings, and/or equations to represent the problems.

Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem.

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency.

Understand the meaning of the equal sign, and determine if equations involving addion and subtration are true or false.

Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120, read/write numerals, and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.

Compare two two-digit numbers based on meaning of the tens and one digits, using the symbols >, =, and <.

We can add and subtract one and two-digit numbers.

Express the length of an object as a number of non-standart units.

Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Organize, represent,and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points.

Distinguish, build, and draw shapes using defining attributes.

Divide circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares and use appropriate vocabulary.

Science

Participate in planning and conducting investigations and recording observations.

Identify basic structures in plants and animals and how they serve a function.

Identify the life cycles of plants and animals.

Understand the relationship between plants and animals and their environment.

Identify the basic properties of earth materials: describe, compare, identify uses, and identify natural resources.

Understand characteristics of weather conditions and climate.

Social Studies

Use primary source materials (e.g., photos, artifacts, maps) to study people and events from the past.

Identify national symbols and monuments that represent American democracy and values:

American flag, Bald Eagle, Statue of Liberty, White House, Washington Monument

Discuss the significance of national holidays:

Recognize state symbols of Arizona (e.g., bird, flower, tree, flag).

Practice examples of democracy in action (e.g., voting, making classroom rules)

Identify and practice rights, responsibilities, and roles of citizenship in a classroom setting.

Identify characteristics of maps and globes

Identify Arizona on a map of the United States.

Discuss the difference between basic needs and wants, and recognize that people save money for future goods and services.