This year I will be including little man in much more school activities than last year. He will be three in October. Our goals for him this year include learning his alphabet, numbers etc. He is great with his colors, but needs quite a bit of help with everything else. We will go slowly and just cover basics since he is so young.
For starters, here are our First grade goals for the Princess:
The subject areas I want to cover include:
- Reading
- Handwriting
- Math
- Science
- Geography
- Art
- Music
- Piano
- Health
- Foreign Language
- Bible
I'm going to break it down now by subject what I would like to cover through the year. Som things are being carried over from last year since I do not feel they were mastered well enough.
Reading:
- Read common, irregular sight words (e.g., the, have, said, come)
- Make all the letter sounds and letter patterns, including consonant blends and long- and short-vowel patterns, and combine those sounds into recognizable words
- Be able to retell a story in detail and in her own words
- Read aloud with fluency in a manner that sounds like natural speech
- Write simple, short stories using sight words and phonics skills
- Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions
- Follow one-step written instructions
- Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns
- Identify and correctly use contractions and singular possessive pronouns in writing and speaking
- Continue to improve manuscript with focus on lower-case letters
- Emphasize use of proper punctuation and capitalization
- Space letters, words, and sentences appropriately
- Recognize and Write numbers to 100
- Count orally by ones, fives and tens to 100
- Use symbols for less than, equal to, or greater than.
- Add and subtract numbers up to and from 10
- Addition and subtraction word problems
- Compare quantities by estimating, weighing, and measuring
- Use graphs to gather information
- Tell time
- Count coins
- Recite the days of the week and months of the year
- Animal Habitats
- Seeds and Plants
- Recycling
- Butterfly Life Cycle
- Ants
- Ocean life
- Dinosaurs
- Magnets
- Volcanoes
- Scientific Procedure
- Any other topics that princess shows interest in
- Basic map skills
- How to use a compass
- Important US symbols
- The 50 states - we will do a lapbook for each state we learn about (all 50 will not be completed)
- Letterboxing
- Experiment with different materials and methods
- Learn how to draw some simple pictures
- Learn about music notes (different notes and what they mean) and sheet music
- Learn the notes of a piano
- Learn how to play simple songs on the piano by reading the sheet music
- Learn essentials 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 Alphabet orally
- Basic colors
- Common items in the home
- Animal names
- Character Traits - Respect, honesty, obedience, attentiveness, self-control, orderly, forgiving, content, thankful, humble, joyful, generous, compassionate, responsible, patient, diligent.
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