- Herman L. Horn Elementary
- Curriculum
English
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- Print first and last name correctly from memory
- Identify capital and lowercase letters
- Build communication skills through the use of oral language while developing listening and speaking vocabularies
- Identify rhyming words and recite familiar rhymes and songs
- Develop an ability to orally identify sounds in words
- Demonstrate an understanding of story content
- Understand how print is organized
- Use pictures, letters, and/or words to write about experiences
- Ask how and why questions
- Identify beginning and ending consonants in single- syllable words
Science
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- Conduct investigations by identifying and using the human senses
- Explore and understand physical properties of objects, magnets, water, and light
- Investigate and understand basic needs of living things and life cycles
- Observe and understand simple patterns in everyday life
- Investigate and understand that changes occur over time
- Identify and describe materials that can be reused, recycled, and conserved
Mathematics
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- Count forward to 100, by 5’s and 10’s to 100, backward from 10
- Match numerals 0-15 to sets of objects
- Add and subtract simple sets of objects
- Locate objects by their positions
- Identify more, less, and equal
- Recognize penny, nickel, dime, quarter and determine the value of a collection of pennies
- Fractions (1/2, and ¼)
- Tell time to the hour using analog or digital clock
- Identify tools of measurement
- Use standard and nonstandard units to compare the measurements of objects
- Identify, describe, and make circle, triangle, square, and rectangle
- Gather data by counting, tallying and graphing
- Sort and classify objects
- Identify and describe patterns
Social Studies
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- Use simple maps, globes and models to identify and to locate our country, our state, and our community
- Identify map and community symbols
- Study and describe jobs in the community
- Understand basic economic concepts such as basic needs and wants, exchanging money for goods and saving money
- Identify famous Americans, historical holidays, past events and historical accounts
- Identify and practice good citizenship
- Identify the American flag and Pledge of Allegiance
- Recognize the President as the leader of the United States
Technology
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- Identify parts of a computer
- Develop basic computer skills
- Explore uses of available technology for reading and writing