tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23478223263866790952024-02-07T19:50:31.274-05:00Who Needs School?Welcome to the Schonder School of Unschooling. Here is where I will provide a detailed journal of our educational exploits.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-75023065099585260272012-03-09T11:06:00.001-05:002012-03-09T11:06:24.998-05:00Reading TipsI bought window cling words from the Dollar Tree - The "colors" words... There were 10 paint splashes with colors and the words... and 10 tubes of paint with colors and the words. <br />
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I took the window clings and put one set on the car window where Kira sits and the other set on the car window where Marisa sits. <br />
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Now when we're in the car, the girls can practice reading the "colors" and learn how each color is spelled. They think it's super cool and I get to work in a school lesson without much effort.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-89777530327001545512011-12-20T18:26:00.000-05:002011-12-20T18:26:39.169-05:00SpellingKira asked me today if she could take lessons for spelling because she really wants to learn how to spell. Sigh... workbooks and prepared lessons are not really 'my thing', but that's what she is wanting right now so I went to the bookstore and found an age appropriate spelling book. I also bought flashcards for the Dolche Sight Words. I haven't decided exactly how I will be incorporating these things into our lives, but it looks like we are going to be embarking on Spelling and Sight Words for now.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-74114417222971074652011-06-27T13:38:00.000-04:002011-06-27T13:38:44.891-04:00Worms Eat Garbage...Today begins our first lengthy science project.... WORM COMPOSTING!<br />
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I ventured out to the store to buy the perfect container for our worms. Because I do not intend this to be a massive composting project, I got a smallish container - big enough to hold the worms but small enough to be manageable by myself and the girls. When we returned home, I added a few worms to the box. We have five worms in our container. I had purchased a box of red wigglers a couple of weeks ago for feeding the turtle. All that was left of the wigglers was six worms. After treating the turtle to one of the worms, we put the rest in our composting bin.<br />
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Because this is a science project, I have a notebook for observation. Day 1 lists 5 worms and lots of newspaper bedding.<br />
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We did a bit of research to determine what would be good to feed our worms and we learned that they like just about any organic material. Fruits, veggies, and other kitchen waste can be placed in the bin for feeding the worms. It's not much different from the turtle, really. In an effort to jump start the feeding of the worms, both girls went outside to collect some grass and leaves for the hungry little worms.<br />
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It is my hope that this project will teach them how certain household wastes can be recycled for the benefit of the earth. I also plan to use some of the worms to continue feeding the voraciously hungry turtle. She loves worms most of all and there just aren't any around here for digging. We're too close to the lake and the worms know that people fish in the lake so they hide... I'm sure of it.<br />
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For further reading on worm composts, I highly recommend the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Worms-Eat-Garbage-Mary-Appelhof/dp/0942256107">Worms Eat My Garbage</a>. It is an interesting read and gives useful information on the biology of worm composting and worm reproduction.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-54549947974230652322010-12-31T02:03:00.001-05:002010-12-31T02:03:23.502-05:00I Shouldn't Be AliveThis was today's field trip to explore Kira's current obsession with the "I Shouldn't Be Alive" survival show... <br />
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I told Kira we were going for a drive and asked her to tell me what we needed to put in the car in case of an emergency. So she decided that we needed a couple of blankets, some water, some food, flashlights, a lighter, and some toys... lol. <br />
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So we got 3 blankets - one for each of us - and a pack of graham crackers and a jar of peanut butter. I filled 2 bottles with water. She helped me gather all our emergency supplies and take everything to the car. <br />
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We had to go by the Dollar Tree to get batteries, so I got her and Marisa a Sprite and me a Dasani water. <br />
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Then we 'got lost' - literally. I asked them which way to turn at every light or stop sign. I couldn't even begin to tell you how we got where we went. I found a place called Bolding Mill campground. We stopped there and got out to look at the lake because there was a very shallow area where you could see the bottom. I explained that all the leaves that we could see piled up in the water makes perfect places for fish to lay their eggs because the babies can hide from predators. Then a guy came with his boat and we watched him put his boat in the water - move his truck - and go off on the lake to fish. <br />
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I taught Kira how to use my phone to call her daddy, just in case mommy ever got hurt and couldn't use the phone. Then we went on with our 'getting lost' adventure. <br />
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So then I come to a place called Toto Creek. Again, it is a local campground with boat docks. (lots of those around here) <br />
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I parked the car and we all got out and walked over to the edge of the trees. There was a big wooded area. Kira and I chose a good clearing (right near the edge of the woods/parking lot) where we could build ourselves a shelter - and then we pretended we were lost in the woods and trying to survive until somebody found us. <br />
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(I'm sure you're laughing by now... but it gets better.) <br />
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I had to use the scissors that we had included in our emergency kit to cut away some briers from our clearing. While I was doing that - without any direction from me at all - Kira was gathering longer branches that we could use to build a 'roof' over our shelter. <br />
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So I laid one blanket on the ground after I cleared the briers and twigs and pine cones out of the way. I sat Marisa down and covered her with another blanket so she could be warm. And then I used the branches that Kira had found to build a sort of wall by wedging it between the trees. We had chosen an area that had several trees kind of lumped together, but was clear in the center and had a natural "doorway" for the shelter. Anyways, I used the third blanket to drape over the branches to act as a wind break wall. <br />
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Then we snuggled up together and I made Graham Cracker, peanut butter, ghiradelli square sandwiches... which were beyond delicious! <br />
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We sat and talked about how we could build a better shelter if we were actually lost. What we would do if we heard voices out in the woods if we were actually lost. Lots of different scenarios... <br />
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IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOMENESS! And... I thought of this all on my very own!!! lol<br />
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I told Kira that we will go camping when the campgrounds open in the Spring and we will build ourselves a true shelter using trees and sticks and stuff. <br />
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I was amazed at how she "packed" our emergency kit and how she chose properly sized branches that were just right for wedging between the trees for building a shelter. <br />
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I just had to share. It was so much fun! <br />
(Marisa was pretty much just along for the ride - and the chocolate peanut butter sandwiches... )Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-40426507063206334312010-12-28T11:55:00.001-05:002010-12-28T11:55:21.290-05:00Twelth Grade Scope and Sequence<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="zeroBorder"><tbody>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 12 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Principles of U. S. government</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The democratic ideal</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic documents of the U. S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Agriculture in the U. S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Urbanization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Business and industry in the U. S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American party system</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Propaganda and public opinion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Comparative governments</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Comparative economic systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Consumer education</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Crime and delinquency</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Psychology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Labor-management relations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Economic concepts and theories</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Taxation and finance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Distribution and exchange of goods and services</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* International relations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American foreign policy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* International organizations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Public education</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Women's role in today's society</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Family economics and management </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Physics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electricity and magnetism</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Photoelectric effect</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Heat</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Light and optics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sound and acoustics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Wave motion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Quantum theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relativity </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Force</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mechanics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space, time, and motion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Work, energy, and power</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electronics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nuclear energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nuclear physics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solid-state physics </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* English literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Shakespeare</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literary, social, and political heritage of England</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literature of the 1900's</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cross-cultural literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The theater</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nature of tragedy and comedy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Techniques of acting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Film as an art form</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Critical and evaluative reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Current periodical literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mass communication</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Comparative study of mass media</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Radio and television</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parliamentary procedures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identifying verbals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Report writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing social and business letters</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing book reviews, précis, essays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing term papers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Bibliography development </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Calculus </span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Derivative of a function</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Logarithmic and trigonometric functions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Indeterminate terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Computation of derivatives</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rate of a change of quantity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Maxima and minima</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Integrals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Length of curves</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Volume and surface areas</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Computer analysis of graphs</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Advanced Algebra</span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sets of numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Binomial theorem</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Progressions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Complex numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Theory of equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Permutations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Functions and their graphs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Combinations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Probability</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Determinants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Inequalities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Matrix algebra</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mathematical inductions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The derivative</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Probability and Statistics</span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Tabular data</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Graphs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Measures of central tendency</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Quartiles and percentiles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Measures of dispersion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple correlation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Statistical inference</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Permutations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Combinations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Binomial theorem</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 11 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Age of exploration and discovery</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Colonization of America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* A new nation is born</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Constitution of the United States</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Development of a new nation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Period of nationalism</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sectionalism</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American Civil War and Reconstruction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* United States as a world power</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Struggle for women's rights</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World War I </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Great Depression</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World War II</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Cold War</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The nuclear era</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Civil rights</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Delinquency and crime</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Psychology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problems of mental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Urbanization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Public education</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Role of women in today's society </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Matter and its behavior</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Carbon and its compounds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Formulas and chemical equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Acids, bases, salts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Atomic theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Periodic law</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Water and solutions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Chemical bonding</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Molecular theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Equilibrium and kinetics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spontaneous reactions </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Titrations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ionization and ionic solutions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Colloids, suspensoids, and emulsoids</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Oxidation-reduction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nonmetals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Metals and alloys</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electrochemistry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Energy: forms, chemical changes, and measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nuclear reactions and radioactivity </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cross-cultural literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Analysis of plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary of poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Critical and evaluative reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Propaganda techniques</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mass communication</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advertising</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Music and painting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Architecture and sculpture</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary development</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Grammar</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Story writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Editorial writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Journalistic writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing term papers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Proofreading symbols</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use of Reader's Guide and other reference aids, both print and electronic </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Algebra II</span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relations and functions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Square roots, surds, radicals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rational roots</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Linear equations and analytic geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Quadratic equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Binomial theorem</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Imaginary numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exponents and radicals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Logarithms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Progressions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Higher-degree equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vectors</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Determinants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Permutations, combinations, and simple probability</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Estimation and approximation </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Trigonometry </span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solutions of right triangles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use of table and interpolation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Measurement of angles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of trigonometric functions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Complex numbers and vectors</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concept of a limit</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Graphs of functions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solutions of oblique triangles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Logarithms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identities and equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* General triangle solutions </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 10 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prehistoric peoples</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The earliest civilizations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The early Greeks</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Early India and China</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Islamic world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Middle Ages</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* African civilizations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Civilization in the Americas</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Renaissance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The rise and fall of monarchies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Birth of modern democracy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The French Revolution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Industrial Revolution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nationalism</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Imperialism </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Science and industry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The world wars</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- World War I</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Between world wars</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- World War II</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Cold War</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Vietnam War</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The search for peace</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Democratic ideals and values</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The rise and fall of Communism</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The collapse of the Soviet Union</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World interdependence</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World problems and issues</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Role of women in today's societies </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Characteristics of life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Classification</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History of plants and animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Microscopic life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple organisms: algae, bacteria, fungi</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vertebrate life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mammals and birds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plant life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Photosynthesis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cells</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Protein synthesis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Genetics and heredity </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* DNA-RNA</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Genetic engineering</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reproduction and growth</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human biology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nutrition and digestion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Behavior</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation of human resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Environmental issues</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Energy in ecosystems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biology and space travel</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Disease and disease control </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American literary heritage</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cross-cultural literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Folklore and ballads</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Regional customs, traditions, folkways, and language</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literary interpretation and critique</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Novel, short story, and essay</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understanding poetry: lyric poetry, and the sonnet</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Drama</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Distinguishing between fact and opinion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Persuasion and argumentation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Public speaking and debate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extending dictionary skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History of the alphabet</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary and etymology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geographical dialects</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Grammar</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History of writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Techniques of writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Journal writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing short stories, poetry, and plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing term papers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Constructing footnotes </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Origins and uses of geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Terms, postulates, theorems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nature of proof</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Inductive and deductive reasoning</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio and proportion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Algebra in geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Angle relationships</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parallel and perpendicular lines</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Congruent triangles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Right triangles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pythagorean Theorem</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Circles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Polygons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relationships between circles and polygons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mensuration theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Measurement of geometric figures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple constructions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Loci</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Transformational geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Introduction of symbolic logic</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Coordinate geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Trigonometric functions of angles greater than 90 degrees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Special angle relationships</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problem solving with geometry </span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-52246952293813607122010-12-28T11:54:00.001-05:002010-12-28T11:54:01.015-05:00Ninth Grade Scope and Sequence<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 9 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic human communities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Community, state, and national government</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Political parties and elections</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Comparative cultures and religions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* African American, Hispanic, and other ethnic studies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Urban studies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Women in our history</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation, including human conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Resource management </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary economics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Labor and management</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Taxation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Foundations of American democracy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. Constitution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rights and responsibilities of good citizenship</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* United Nations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World geography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advanced map and globe skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth's history</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth science</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecology and environment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather and climate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air and air pressure</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air masses and fronts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Water and its uses</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Erosion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air and water pollution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Heats and fuels</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electricity and electronics </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solar and nuclear energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nature and uses of light</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple and complex machines</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Atomic structure</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Chemistry of matter</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Molecular theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nature and use of chemicals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Metals and plastics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space and astronomy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space travel</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nature and causes of disease </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Evaluating material for accuracy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading the newspaper</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Analyzing propaganda</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advertising</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Drama and film</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Analyzing poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dramatic poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using poetry anthologies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Novel and short story</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Folklore and myths</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Structure of a play</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parable and allegory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Interpretation of literature </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Effective discussion techniques and questioning skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Preparing a speech</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Public speaking and debate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The unabridged dictionary</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Foreign words used in English</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Grammar</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fundamentals of composition</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Report writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extended reference skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Special indexes </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">General mathematics</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio and proportion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic concepts of statistics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mathematical vocabulary</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* irect and indirect measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Banks and banking</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Investment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Budgeting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Insurance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Taxation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Graphs and tables</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Informal geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary algebra</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurement</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Algebra 1</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Absolute value</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sets and their relationships</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of polynomial forms</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Equations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Signed numbers</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fundamental operations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Equations of the first degree</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio, proportion, variation</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relations and functions</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Special products and factoring</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fractions and fractional equations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Square roots</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Radicals</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Quadratic equations</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elements of probability </span></span></div>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-39759588105365909162010-12-28T11:53:00.001-05:002010-12-28T11:53:31.031-05:00Eigth Grade Scope and Sequence<h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 8 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exploration and discovery</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Growth and development of the United States</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Colonial life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Struggle for independence</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Westward movement in America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- American Civil War</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Reconstruction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- U. S. as a world power </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Meaning of democracy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Our American culture</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. political system</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. economic system</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. government</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. geography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advanced map and globe skills</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific nomenclature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecology and environment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Composition of the earth</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ocean, atmosphere</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Water and its uses</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weathering and erosion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recycling of resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnetism and electricity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Heat and light</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Forces in liquids and gases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The earth's movement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Newton's three laws of motion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Machines</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The atom</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Periodic table of elements</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Compounds and mixtures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Chemical changes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Astronomy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The universe and Milky Way</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space and space travel </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Independent reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literary terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Novel, short story, narrative poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nonfiction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biographies of great Americans</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* American poets and storytellers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Creative dramatics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening and speech activities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advanced dictionary work</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extended vocabulary </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Figures of speech</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Kinds of sentences and their parts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Functions of sentence elements</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing simple business letters</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Report-writing skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Improving skills in using basic reference sources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Inductive and deductive reasoning</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Grooming</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Functions of the body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The body's utilization of food</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types and functions of foods</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Environmental hazards</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Community sanitation and health </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Health care services</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sexually transmitted diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Accident prevention, safety, and first aid</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mental hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Substance abuse</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Maintaining skills in fundamental operations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Factoring and products</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sets and simple sentences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Numeration systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using fractions and decimals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio, proportion, and percent</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Equalities and inequalities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple formulas and equations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Graphing an equation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Powers and roots of rational numbers </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Polynomials</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Metric and non-metric geometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pythagorean Theorem</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scale drawing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Right-triangle trigonometry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Permutations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Probability statistics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Statistical terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes </span></span></div>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-50962423221724346602010-12-28T11:52:00.001-05:002010-12-28T11:52:38.709-05:00Seventhh Grade Scope and Sequence<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="zeroBorder"><tbody>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 7 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Lands and peoples of the Eastern Hemisphere</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prehistoric peoples</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern civilizations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Middle Ages</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Renaissance and Reformation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific Revolution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Age of Reason (Enlightenment)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Industrial Age </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Yesterday and today around the world: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World trade and resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Contemporary problems and issues</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Environment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World geography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Advanced map and globe skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific classification</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The cell</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Heredity and genetics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Effects of weather and climate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties and uses of water</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Atmosphere</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air pressure</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rocks, soil, and minerals </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecology and environment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Heat and temperature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Laws of motion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Laboratory techniques and safety </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Improving reading skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Literary terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Novels, short stories, plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Myths, legends, ballads</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types of poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biography and autobiography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Planning and producing dramatizations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Speech activities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Refining dictionary skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parts of speech</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Person, number, gender of nouns and pronouns </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Punctuation of conversation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Clauses and phrases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Compound sentences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing descriptions, reports, journals, and letters</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Note taking and outlining</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extending reference skills: atlases, directories, encyclopedias, periodicals, on-line information services, CD-ROMs, and other electronic reference material</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Library organization </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Good grooming and posture</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Healthy habits and lifestyles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exercise and fitness</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Effects of stimulants and narcotics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Functions of the body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Circulation and respiration</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Germ theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sexually transmitted diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Family life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Toxins and antitoxins</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Antibiotics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Immunization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Chemotherapy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Genetic disorders</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personal and public safety</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Accident prevention</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personality development</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Substance abuse </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prime and composite numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Square root</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Order of operations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Absolute value</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Inequalities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Numeration</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of nonnegative integers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rational numbers and fractions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio, proportion, percent</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Finite, infinite, and empty sets </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic geometry concepts and terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Development and use of formulas</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Perimeter, circumference, area</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Metric and customary measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading and constructing graphs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Measures of central tendency: mean, mode, median, range</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary business mathematics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use of calculators and computers </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 6 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Global and regional studies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Countries and cultures of Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and Europe</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Native American cultures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The Roman Empire</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relationships among nations: customs, traditions and beliefs, political and economic systems </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* United Nations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Milestones in human achievement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Transportation and communication</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World trade</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Citizenship and social responsibility</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World geography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Map and globe skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Classification of living things</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecosystems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecology and the environment</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Microbes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Algae and fungi</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Food for growth and energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Climate and weather</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recycling of resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary geology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Oceans</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electric and magnetic interactions </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Electricity and its uses</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sound, light, and heat</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nuclear energy and radioactivity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solar and geothermal energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elements and compounds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Universe</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple astronomy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space and space travel</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific theory</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Inventions and discoveries </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading silently and skimming</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Critical reading skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Introduction to mythology</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types of literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Lyric, narrative, dramatic poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nonverbal communication</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extending dictionary skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary building</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using roots, prefixes, and suffixes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sentence structure </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Diagramming sentences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cursive handwriting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types of writing: narration, description, exposition, persuasion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple note taking</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing outlines, letters, factual matter (reports, newspaper articles), verse (limericks, ballads), creative prose (diary, stories)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Bibliography building</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Organization of a book</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using reference books and indexes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using on-line information services, CD-ROM's, and other electronic reference materials </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personal appearance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Health maintenance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Our food supply</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exercise and fitness</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cure and prevention of common diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The heart </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Accident prevention</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety and first aid</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The health professions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understanding emotions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Coping with stress and anxiety</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Preparing for puberty</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human reproduction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Substance abuse </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exponents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Operation of powers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Set of the integers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Factoring</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fundamental operations with fractions, and decimals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fundamental operations with compound denominate numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Multiplying and dividing common fractions and mixed numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relationship between common and decimal fractions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problems in percent</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties, identification, and construction of geometric figures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identification and measurement of angles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of similarity, congruence, and symmetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scale drawings</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problem analysis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Interpreting graphs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of averaging and sampling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use of calculators and computers </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 5 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exploration and discovery</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Establishment of settlements in the New World</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Colonial life in America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pioneer life in America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Revolutionary War in America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Westward movement in America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Industrial and cultural growth</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Democracy's principles and documents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Life in the U. S. and its possessions </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geography of the U. S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Natural resources of the U. S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Canada and Mexico</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relationship between the U. S. and Canada</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Comparative cultures of Canada</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Countries and cultures of the Western Hemisphere: Central America, West Indies, South America</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Map and globe skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biological adaptations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biotic communities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Animal and plant classification</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fish</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reptiles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Bacteria</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Molds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Trees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plants and their food</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cells</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Landforms </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of air and water</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Time and seasons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Temperature and thermometers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnetic fields</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use and control of electricity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conduction and convection</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Light and optics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Force systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Chemical systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sun and solar system</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Space and space exploration</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method and scientific inquiry </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Silent and oral reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types of literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Presenting original plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dictionary use for word meaning,</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">analysis, spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common homonyms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Homophones and homographs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Synonyms and antonyms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using a thesaurus</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plurals and possessives</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Kinds of sentences </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parts of sentences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cursive handwriting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Outlining</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Paragraph writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing letters, stories, reports, poems, plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Preparing a simple bibliography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Proofreading skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parts of a newspaper</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using study materials: keys, tables, graphs, charts, legends, library catalogs, index, table of contents, reference materials, maps</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Our water supply</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sewage disposal</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Care of the eyes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nutrition and diet</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Germ-bearing insects and pests </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Community health resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary first aid</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Bicycle and water safety</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Preparing for puberty</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human reproduction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Substance abuse </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading and writing numbers to 10 places</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Mixed numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Set of integers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Numeration systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division of whole numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fundamental processes: whole numbers and common fractions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common and decimal fractions * Decimals to the thousandths</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ratio and percent</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exponents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurements</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Extension of geometric concepts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Word problems in daily life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Charts and graphs: picture, bar, line, and circle graphs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concept of sampling </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 4 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Types of community life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History and development of the local state</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relation of the state to its region, nation, and the world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* World cultures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reasons for our laws</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Regions of the world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Continents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Time zones</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth's resources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Climatic regions of the world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using a globe </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Structure of plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Environment of the local region</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Biological organization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Classification systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The insect world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The reptilian world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plants and animals of the past</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Structure of plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Seeds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ecosystems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Balance of nature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Human body </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather's influences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather instruments</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Climate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cause of seasons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth and its history</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Oceans and the hydrosphere</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air and water pollution</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnets and electricity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Light and color</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solar system and the universe</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Living in space</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method and scientific inquiry </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Silent and oral reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Choral reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Telephone skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Making and accepting simple social introductions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Summarizing simple information</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening to literature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Critical reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Increasing dictionary skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cursive handwriting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple outlining</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing letters and informal notes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Written and oral book reports</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Creative writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Developing skills in locating information</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Increasing indexing skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Developing encyclopedia skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Utilizing parts of a newspaper </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personal and mental hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The body and its functions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Skeletal and muscular systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Care and proper use of the body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Principles of digestion </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic food groups</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Good nutrition habits</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Substance abuse </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading and writing numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Roman numerals to C</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prime numbers less than 100</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prime factoring</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Numeration systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Subsets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Decimal and fraction equivalents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Multiplication and division facts to 144</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* 2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Meaning of mixed numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Finding simple averages</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geometric concepts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Time to the second</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problem-solving methods</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Charts and graphs </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 3 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Holidays and folk customs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Native Americans</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Explorers and pioneers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History and development of local community</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Community helpers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Consumers and producers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sources of food and clothing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Shelters of animals and people </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History and development of transportation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* History and development of communication</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Citizenship and social responsibility</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic human needs and wants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Local geography and topography</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* U. S. geography and regions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The continents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Flat maps and globes </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Animal helpers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dinosaurs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Life cycle</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plants and animals of the desert</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plants and animals of the sea</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common birds, trees, flowers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Forest plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Conservation of plants and animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather and climate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth's changing surface</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnets and electricity </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Compass</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Gravity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Light and color</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Energy and its sources</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Force and work</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Machines</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Moon and stars</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth satellites</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method and scientific inquiry </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Silent reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading prose and poetry aloud</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dictionary skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Developing word-attack methods</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Spelling </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning cursive writing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concept of paragraph</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing short, original stories and poems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Post writing skills: editing and proofreading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Increasing indexing skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Care of eyes and ears</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Proper balance of activities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Healthful leisure activities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prevention and control of diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Parts of the body</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nutrition </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* School and community health services</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Home safety hazards</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety in the community</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple first aid </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading and writing numbers to 5 places</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning Roman numerals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Rounding numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Positive and negative numbers in daily life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple fractions and equivalents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of one</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Numeration systems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Addition and subtraction facts to 25</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Multiplication and division facts to 100 </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Perimeter, area, volume</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geometric constructions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Similar and congruent figures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Properties of solid figures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Customary and metric measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Time to 1- and 5-minute measures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Estimation of outcomes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problems-solving analysis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Word problems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Charts and graphs </span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Gra</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">de 2 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Holidays and festivals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Patriotic celebrations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Communities in other lands: past and present</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Family and family history</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Families around the world</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Neighborhoods</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Community services and helpers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Shelters, stores, and food</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Citizenship and social responsibility</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Interdependence of people</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic geography: oceans, continents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Map skills </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Useful and harmful animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Life cycle</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Birds and insects in winter</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Animal babies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Animal defense of themselves and their young</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plant and animal food</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dinosaurs and other extinct animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Food chain</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plant reproduction and growth</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Habitats and homes</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather and its effects on earth </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Climate</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Water cycle</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air and atmosphere</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnets and forces</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Gravity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth and sky</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sun, moon, planets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple constellations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exploring space</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method and scientific inquiry</span></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading silently for purpose</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Story development: beginning, middle, end</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple book reviews</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Organizing ideas and impressions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Alphabetizing through second letter of a word</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using dictionary guide words</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Vocabulary development </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Methods of word attack</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ways to study spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple punctuation and capitalization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Refining manuscript handwriting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Writing independently in manuscript form</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Brief and simple letters and journals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Narration, description, letters, poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Personal cleanliness</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic food groups </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Communicable diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Preventive measures against disease</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Neighborhood safety</span></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counting, reading, writing to 1,000</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ordinal numbers to 10</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Zero as a place holder</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using sets and number facts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Addition and subtraction facts to 20</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic multiplication and division facts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Multiplication properties of 0 and 1</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Place value through 100's </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fractions in daily life</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Decimal numeration system</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic concept of ratio</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geometry puzzles and activities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Estimation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Telling time and using the calendar</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Handling money (coins)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Problem solving</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Charts and graphs </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><br />
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grade 1 Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Holidays, traditions, and customs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Our American Heritage</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Different cultures at different times</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Family, school, neighborhood, community</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Farm and zoo </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Neighborhood helpers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Jobs and careers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Social skills and responsibilities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic geography terms</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Making and reading a simple neighborhood map</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Grouping and classification</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Living and nonliving things</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Farm animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Zoo and circus animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Woodland animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common birds</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plant and animal habitats</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather and seasons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Day and night</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solids, liquids, gases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Air and water</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Magnets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Fire and temperature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sun, moon, stars, planets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple machines</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning experimentation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Scientific method and scientific inquiry</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Phonetic analysis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Structural analysis</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Establishing sight vocabulary</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Reading informally: names, labels, signs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple pantomimes and dramatic play</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Creating stories and poems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Telling favorite stories</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Organizing ideas and impressions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Enunciation and pronunciation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Book reports and critiques</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning spelling</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Introduction to punctuation and capitalization</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Manuscript handwriting</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Handling books</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using table of contents</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Development of a class newspaper</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personal hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dental health</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Good eating habits</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Exercise and rest</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Diseases</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common cold</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dressing for weather and activity</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety rules to and from school</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counting and writing to 100</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counting by 2's to 40</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple number patterns</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning ordinal numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using 10 as a basic unit</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple properties of zero</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple properties of sets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning addition and subtraction facts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Number-line use</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Place value and numeration</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of quantity and size</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of equality and inequality </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Estimation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Geometric patterns and figures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic customary and metric measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizing time: clock and calendar</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Solving simple word problems</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic probability and chance</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic chart and graph concepts </span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-61995939538637532502010-12-28T11:43:00.001-05:002010-12-28T11:44:16.737-05:00Kindergarten Scope and Sequence<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="zeroBorder"><tbody>
<tr><td><h1><span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kindergarten Curriculum Guide</span></b></b></span></h1></span></b></span></h1></td></tr>
<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Studies</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understanding and appreciating other cultures</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Individual's role in family, home, school, and community</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relationship of the individual to the group</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Work and jobs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety rules and symbols</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic human needs</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Self-respect and self-awareness</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Awareness of others</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Location of home and school</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Diagram of home and school</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Science</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Observation of everyday, familiar things</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Common animals and plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Interrelationships of animals and plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Classification of living things</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Farm animals</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Care of pets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Like and unlike plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Indoor plants</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* The sun: our principal source of energy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Weather and seasons</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Temperature</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Light</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Colors</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Senses</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Earth, moon, stars, planets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple measurement</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning experimentation </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Language Arts</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Phonics</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Choral reading</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening to literature, music, poetry</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Social listening</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Constructing visual images while listening</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Oral communication skills</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Role play</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Following and giving directions</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Paraphrasing and summarizing</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Organizing ideas</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Experience stories</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Relating events and experiences using complete sentences</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listening for correct speech habits and word usage</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Beginning writing process</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Manuscript handwriting </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Health and Safety</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Personal hygiene</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Good eating habits</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Good grooming</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Care of teeth</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Major body parts</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Physical fitness</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Safety to and from school </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mathematics</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Simple counting to 20</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* One-to-one relationship</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Concepts of more, less than, same</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Sequence of events</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Correspondence of quantities</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Ordinal-cardinal relationship</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Number-numeral relationship</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognition of basic sets</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Meaning of addition and subtraction</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Introduction to number line</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Estimation</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Elementary geometry (shapes)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Calendar and clock</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Denominations of money</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic problem-solving strategies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Basic chart and graph concepts</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Preschool Curriculum Guide </span></b></span></h1><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Size</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands big and little.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands long and short.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Matches shapes or objects based on size.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Colors and Shapes</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes and names primary colors.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes circles.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes rectangles.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Matches shapes or objects based on shape.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Copies shapes.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Numbers</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counts orally through 10.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Counts objects in one-to-one correspondence.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands empty and full.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands more and less.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Reading Readiness</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Remembers objects from a given picture.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows what a letter is.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Has been read to frequently.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Has been read to daily.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Looks at books and magazines.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes some nursery rhymes.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identifies parts of the body.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identifies objects that have a functional use.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows common farm and zoo animals.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pronounces own first name.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pronounces own last name.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Expresses self verbally.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identifies other children by name</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Tells the meaning of simple words.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Repeats a sentence of 6-8 words.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Completes incomplete sentence with proper word.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Has own books.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands that print carries a message.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pretends to read.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Uses left-to-right progression.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Answers questions about a short story.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Tells the meaning of words heard in story.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Looks at pictures and tells a story.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Identifies own first name in manuscript.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Prints own first name.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Position and Direction</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands up and down.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands in and out.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands front and back.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands over (on) and under.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands top, bottom, middle.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands beside and next to.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands hot and cold.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands fast and slow.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Time</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Understands day and night.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows age and birthday. </span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Listening and Sequencing</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Follows simple directions.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listens to a short story.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Listens carefully.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes common sounds. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Repeats a sequence of sounds.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Repeats a sequence of orally given numbers.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Retells simple stories in sequence.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Motor Skills</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to run.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to walk a straight line.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to jump.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to hop.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to alternate feet walking down stairs.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to march.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to stand on one foot for 5-10 seconds.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to walk backwards for five feet.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is able to throw a ball.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Pastes objects.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Claps hands. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Matches simple objects.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Touches fingers.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Able to button a garment.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Builds with blocks.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Completes simple puzzles</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">(5 pieces or less).</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Draws and colors beyond</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* a simple scribble.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Able to zip a zipper.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Controls pencil and crayon well.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cuts simple shapes.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Handles scissors well.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Able to copy simple shapes.</span></span></div><h3 style="margin: 12pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social-Emotional Development</span></b></span></h3><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 14.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Can be away from parents or primary care givers for 2-3 hours without being upset.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Takes care of toilet needs independently.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Feels good about self.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Is not afraid to go to school.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Cares for own belongings.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows full name.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Dresses self.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows how to use handkerchief</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">or tissue.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows own sex.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Brushes teeth.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Crosses residential street safely.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Asks to go to school.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows parents' names.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows home address.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Knows home phone number.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Enters into casual conversation.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Carries a plate of food.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Maintains self-control.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Gets along well with other children.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Plays with other children.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Recognizes authority.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Shares with others.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Talks easily.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Likes teachers.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Meets visitors without shyness.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Puts away toys.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Able to stay on task.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Able to work independently.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">* Helps family with chores.</span></span></div></td></tr>
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Their honey bees live in a glass hive! We got to stand there and watch all the bees going about their bee business inside the hive. It was so awesome to see how they were all working around each other and doing their own job.<br />
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We also got to see and touch a few snakes and turtles. The girls, of course, loved touching the snakes. I made a mental note to remember that Monday - early afternoon - is feeding and cleaning time for the animals. Hopefully we will be able to spend more time hanging out with the animals there.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-28343007891370814372010-05-24T20:14:00.000-04:002010-05-24T20:14:27.569-04:00Tide Pool DiscoveriesOh my gosh, we had such a blast at the beach last week when we were on vacation. We went out on Thursday morning during low tide and discovered dozens of tide pools to be explored.<br />
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We found:<br />
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2 hermit crabs<br />
3 sand snails that we managed to dig up out of the sand<br />
1 sand crab that wasn't too disturbed by our insistence that he stick around<br />
1 live shrimp<br />
2 dead jellyfish<br />
more than a few minnow fish<br />
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We spent a great deal of time playing with the tiniest hermit crab. He gladly graced us with his ticklesh little claws as he crawled all over our hands (as long as we kept our hands under the water). He was quite adorable. He would have easily fit on the end of a pencil eraser.<br />
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I would love to live near the ocean so we could explore the tide pools on a more regular basis. I think it would be a cool project to do a daily log of one of those pools. We could measure the tide pool's width and depth, then keep a log and drawings of what types of critters we find in the pool each day. That would be such an awesome science project. (And art... and math... and hmmm... what else could I work into that one?)Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-26223017851628413792010-05-18T22:23:00.000-04:002010-05-18T22:23:47.962-04:00Vacation EducationWe are spending this week in South Carolina on Hilton Head Island. This is the first time I have been here. I've been very pleased with the area. The beaches, the pace, and the general atmosphere is great for taking time away from regular life.<br />
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While here, we've had the opportunity to do many things that have been good for fun and education.<br />
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On Sunday we visited <a href="http://www.coastaldiscovery.org/">Coastal Discovery Museum</a>. There were many things to be done at the museum. The best part, of course, was that the admission to the museum was 100% FREE. I love FREE stuff that provides entertainment AND education. <br />
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We played dress up and pretended we were colonial kids.<br />
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We looked at a really large skeleton of a sea turtle. Seriously, we could have used that turtles shell to build ourselves a really awesome cave.<br />
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We walked through the butterfly pavilion and saw "flying flowers" and the caterpillars that make them. (Translation: We saw monarch caterpillars and swallowtail caterpillars, along with a handful of butterflies.) <br />
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We walked out on two different boardwalks that stretched out over the salt marsh. This, by far, was my favorite part of our visit. I thoroughly enjoyed walking out over the marsh. It was low tide when we made our visit, so the water was way down. We were blessed by visions of thousands of fiddler crabs as they went about the business of life. It was absolutely amazing. I really could have sat and watched those crabs for hours. Marisa was with me on this one. She would have gladly sat and watched the little crabs going about their business for quite a long time. Unfortunately, Kira and Daddy were way too impatient for that. They figured that twenty minutes of fiddler crab life was plenty enough for them.<br />
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When we were making our way back to the car, I came across an interesting creature. It appeared to be a caterpillar, but it was shaped like a scorpion. I couldn't see any type of stinger and whenever I touched it with a stick it would curl up like a grub worm.I did find some photos and learned that this was, in fact, a caterpillar. It's the caterpillar for a tussock moth. The one we saw was red/black fur and a red head with black antennae and tail. <br />
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We started with the American West Gallery where we saw sculptures and paintings and a real stage coach. We also visited the Cowboy Gallery that was filled to the brim with pictures and sculptures of horses. This was probably Kira's favorite art exhibit because she adores anything to do with horses. We moved on to the Heading West Gallery where we viewed paintings of the westward expansion and played with the "touchables" that are set out in the various galleries for the kids to play with.<br />
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Our final stop was the <a href="http://www.boothmuseum.org/exhibitions/sagebrush_ranch.html">Sagebrush Ranch</a>. The Ranch is an educational playground where the children can play and learn. There is a dress up section filled with western style clothes. There's a library section with about 50 different books to read, complete with comfortable bean bag chairs to lounge on and a loft bed to climb into for reading privacy. (We're definitely going to build a bed like that in the girls' bedroom so they can have separate beds in that tiny space.) The Ranch also has two different computer stations where the kids can play games.<br />
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The highlight of the ranch was the stage coach replica that bounced along with a TV screen that shows a wild west scene as you "ride" in the coach. Marisa was in that coach a few dozen times before we finally left the room. In fact, the girls would have gladly stayed another hour or two had the adults not demanded that dinner was much more necessary than spending yet another hour at The Ranch. This alone would be worth paying the normal admission price. I'm glad they have a FREE day, though. It's nice for families to be able to visit even if they don't have the money to pay. Trust me - when you have multiple adults and multiple children making a visit to the museum, that admission fee can add up really quickly.<br />
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I believe we will make every First Thursday of the Month our Booth Museum day. Even though we spent more than two hours in the museum, we still missed a few of the exhibits. We definitely have to go back to play at the Sagebrush Ranch, too.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-14366222926778576742010-04-12T10:09:00.000-04:002010-04-12T10:09:54.724-04:00Washington D.C.My son and I went to Washington D.C. last week for a vacation - just the two of us. It was a nice trip. We visited the National Air and Space Museum while we were there. I have to say that I look forward to returning to D.C. with the two girls because the educational value of this particular city is enormous. There is so much to do and so much to see. There's an added benefit that admission to the many museums is free.<br />
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My son is not home schooled, so this visit was during his Spring Break from school. Unfortunately for me, he wasn't all that interested in roaming the museums. I really wanted to see more than just the one museum. I definitely intend to return to D.C. soon so we can explore all the museums more thoroughly. I know the girls will learn so much from an experience of that nature.<br />
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If you can work a trip to D.C. into your curriculum, I definitely recommend it.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-79098480024656078752010-03-01T23:17:00.000-05:002010-03-01T23:17:31.750-05:00Preschool - Take 2I went to register Marisa for Preschool today. Kira, upon hearing that Marisa would be going off to school next fall, asked if she could go with Marisa. Kira tried <a href="http://schonderschool.blogspot.com/2009/08/pre-school-classes.html">Preschool </a>last year, but was unhappy there for various reasons. She is currently 5 years old, so I thought they would not allow her to enroll. However, all that was needed was for me to sign a waiver stating that I understood that she would be in a class with children who are at least a full year younger than her. Because we have no intention of sending her off to Kindergarten, I have no problem with her spending her "Kindergarten" year in a Preschool classroom. I'm hoping that she will actually enjoy this more than she did the last time we tried this. There are a couple of things that might actually make it easier for her.<br />
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First, she is actually enrolled in the class this time and NOT on a waiting list. She will begin school at the beginning of the school year along with everybody else.<br />
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Second, Marisa will be going, too. She won't be wondering what she is missing at home. She'll know that Marisa is getting any special attention while she's away at school.<br />
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Third, she won't have the same level of physical limitations because she has progressed so rapidly this year. She still can not sit with her legs criss-crossed, but at least she can run now.<br />
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Marisa and Kira will be assigned to separate classrooms, but the rooms are side by side with a shared bathroom area. There is an open space that will allow the girls to see each other, speak to each other, and perhaps even play together for part of their day if the need arises.<br />
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After I finished the registration process and came home to tell my husband that both girls were going to attend, but in separate classroom, Kira immediately started asking questions about how far she would be away from Marisa. I actually ended up driving her over to the facility so she could tour the classrooms. Luckily, the director and assistant director kindly allowed us to do that. Kira met both of the teachers and determined that either teacher and either room would be perfectly acceptable for her. She also stopped bugging me about how far away Marisa would be - which was my whole purpose. Kira is very timid and needy. She feels much more confident when her baby sister is nearby. You would think that it would be the other way around... I'm hoping that this opportunity to explore her own identity with Marisa being nearby, but not too close, will help Kira become more confident in herself. <br />
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One thing that pleased me about this facility is that they follow <a href="http://decal.ga.gov/documents/attachments/Creativecurriculum.pdf">The Creative Curriculum System</a>. From what the director said, this system follows similar lines as Unschooling. The director explained to me that the teachers create and submit weekly lesson plans which are on display for the parents to review. However, if the students are talking about a specific topic one day, the teachers will adjust their plans accordingly in order to explore the topic that has caught the interest of the children. <br />
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It is important to remember that home schooling - and unschooling - does not necessarily mean that I am the only teacher my children will ever know. It means that I know how to find and use the resources that are available to me in order to provide my children with the best education possible.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2347822326386679095.post-48982662639962986782010-02-25T12:47:00.000-05:002010-02-25T12:47:11.736-05:00Library VisitWe made a visit to the main county library last night. I don't go there very often because it is a bit of a drive for me, and there is a local library that is generally sufficient. Every once in a while, though, I like to go to the bigger location because they have such a wide selection. When I select movies for our viewing, I tend to drift through the stacks and pick up whatever appeals to my interests as I wander. The selection of movies is far better at the main branch. I drifted along and selected about 16 movies last night, only to find that the checkout limits have decreased to a maximum of ten movies at a time. I had to finagle to get a card for my husband so that I could bring home all the movies I had chosen. It's just easier that way. In the end, I brought home all the movies I had selected, so it was worth the extra hassle.<br />
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I talked to the library assistant for a bit about audio books last night because Kira adores The Magic Treehouse audio books. Unfortunately, there is a limit to just how many of those books there are and how many my library actually has. After a bit of discussion and browsing, I chose to bring home 4 new audio books.<br />
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- <b>Judy Moody Declares Independence</b><br />
- <b>Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery </b>(Kira enjoyed the story, but I did not enjoy the narrator.)<br />
- <b>Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O.</b> <br />
- <b>Kit: An American Girl </b>(Okay, I have to admit that I was prepared to dislike this. I have a natural aversion to History in just about any form. I decided to bring this home at the last minute even though I knew I would be seriously miserable having to listen to the story. Last night, in hopes of boring Kira to sleep, I put this in. Kira and I sat up until nearly 1:00 AM listening to Kit's story. Even after Kira was asleep, I continued to listen. I was absolutely captivated. The narration is engaging and the story is just amazing. I will definitely be finding more of these. )<br />
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Along with the four audio books, I also brought home several movies.<br />
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- <b>I Want to be a ... Firefighter: Explore a Career in Firefighting </b>(I would really like to know where THIS movie was last year when Kira first became obsessed with fire. This movie would have saved me a ton of hassle and frustration.) <br />
- <b>Savage Skies: Fire and Rain</b><br />
- <b>Wetlands: Georgia's Vanishing Treasure</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Ballad of the Irish Horse</b><br />
- <b>Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Going to School </b>(I watched all of 5 minutes of this and turned it off. Did I really used to watch this show? )<br />
- <b>National Geographic: Ocean Drifters</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Dolphins, the Wild Side</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Born of Fire</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Killer Wave: The Power of the Tsunami</b><br />
- <b>Life Science: All About Fish</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Dinosaur Giants: FOUND</b><br />
- <b>Eyewitness: Shark</b><br />
- <b>Amazing Animals: Endangered Animals</b><br />
- <b>National Geographic: Volcano!</b><br />
- <b>Amazing Animals: Armored Animals</b><br />
<b> </b> -<b> Eyewitness: Elephant</b><br />
<b> </b> -<b> Eyewitness: Jungle</b><br />
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I also picked up one book - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Real-Life-Homeschooling-Stories-Families-Children/dp/0743442296">Real-Life Homeschooling by: Rhonda Barfield</a>.Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742538867410215197noreply@blogger.com1