CURRICULUM

• Recognizing and naming 26 uppercase and 26 lowercase letters
• Knowing sounds for all 26 letters
• Producing rhyming words
• Segmenting and blending consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words
• Decoding and recognizing first 25 sight words
• Working on fluency and expression
• Checking for understanding of the story/text to build comprehension
• Reading a variety of text
• Expressing ideas with others

• Using pictures to tell stories
• Labeling pictures with salient sounds
• Stretching words to hear beginning, middle, and ending sounds
• Writing for a variety of purposes
• Applying knowledge of structures and conventions 
• Writing and revising independently
• Forming letters to make writing readable (Handwriting Without Tears)

• Recognizing syllables
• Isolating beginning sounds
• Segmenting and blending words
• Rhyming words
• Learning word families
• Working on basic conventions: capitalization and punctuation

• Recognizing numerals 1-30
• Identifying arrays to 10
• Add and subtract within 10
• 2-D and 3-D shapes 
• Understand the relationship of addition and subtraction

• Citizenship
• U.S. Symbols, icons, and traditions
• Geography
• Calendars
• Life long ago and today
• Community Helpers

• Trees
• Wood and Paper
• Animals