For starters, the subject areas I want to cover include:
- Reading
- Handwriting
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Art
- Music
- Health
- Foreign Language
- Bible
I'm going to break it down now by subject what I would like to cover through the year.
Reading:
- Learn vowels vs. consonants and the sounds they make
- Read CVC words
- Read sight words (for Kindergarten level)
- Be able to retell a story in detail
- Put events of a story in order
- Write simple sentences using sight words and phonics skills
- Continue to improve manuscript with focus on lower-case letters
- Introduce script?
- Write own last name
- Recognize and Write numbers to 100
- Count orally by ones, fives and tens to 100
- Name ordinal numbers first through tenth
- Add and subtract using manipulatives
- Compare quantities by estimating, weighing, and measuring
- Use graphs to gather information
- Tell time to the nearest hour
- Count coins
- Recite the days of the week and months of the year
- Understand the five senses
- Weather
- Animal Habitats
- Plants and Farming
- Recycling
- Identify major religious and civic holidays
- Identify major Historical figures
- Understand our community
- Understand different roles in community (Community Helpers)
- Experiment with different materials and methods
- Learn how to draw some simple pictures
- Learn about music notes (different notes and what they mean)
- Learn the notes of a piano
- Learn essecntials of nutrition
- Learn basic functions of the body
- Importance of personal hygiene
- Learn why our bodies are special and are to be kept private
- Safety in public places
- Proper manners in different situations
- Learn to count orally to ten
- Basic colors
- Common items in the home
- Animal names
- Going to follow an age appropriate Lesson Book for bible instruction