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Course Description

 

Core Standards of the Course

Standard 1
Students will develop a sense of self.

Objective 1
Describe and practice responsible behaviors for health and safety.

1. Practice appropriate personal hygiene (e.g., bathe, wash hands, clean clothes).
   
2. Describe the benefits of eating a variety of nutritious foods.
   
3. Describe the benefits of physical activity.
   
4. Describe substances that are helpful and harmful to the body.
   
5. Practice basic safety and identify hazards.
   

Objective 2
Develop and demonstrate skills in gross and fine motor movement.

1. Participate daily in short periods of physical activity that require exertion (e.g., one to three* minutes of walking, jogging, jump roping).
   
2. Perform fundamental locomotor (e.g., skip, gallop, run) and nonlocomotor (twist, stretch, balance) skills with mature form.
   
3. Develop manipulative skills (e.g., cut, glue, throw, catch, kick, strike).
   
4. Create and perform unique dance movements and sequences that strengthen skills while demonstrating personal and spatial awareness.
   

Objective 3
Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings.

1. Recognize and express feelings in a variety of ways (e.g., draw, paint, tell stories, dance, sing).
   
2. Express how colors, values, and sizes have been controlled in artworks to create mood, tell stories, or celebrate events.
   
3. Sing a melody independently, with developing accuracy and a natural voice that is free from strain.
   
4. Create simple rhythm, movement, and melody patterns with body percussion and instruments.
   

Standard 2
Students will develop a sense of self in relation to families and community.

Objective 1
Describe behaviors that influence relationships with family and friends.

1. Explain how family members support each other.
   
2. Describe tasks at home and school.
   
3. Explain how families change over time.
   
4. Recognize that choices have consequences which affect self, peers, and family.
   
5. Describe behaviors that initiate and maintain friendships.
   

Objective 2
Describe important aspects of the community and culture that strengthen relationships.

1. Practice democratic processes (e.g., follow family and classroom rules, take turns, listen to others, share ideas).
   
2. Describe physical features surrounding the home, school, and community.
   
3. Identify changes in the school and neighborhood over time.
   
4. Identify and use technology in your home, school, and community (e.g., computer, TV, radio).
   
5. Show respect for state and national symbols and patriotic traditions; recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
   

Objective 3
Express relationships in a variety of ways.

1. Describe traditions, music, dances, artwork, poems, rhymes, and stories that distinguish cultures.
   
2. Develop dramatic storytelling skills through flexibility in movement and voice, accurate sequencing, and listening and responding to others.
   
3. Create and perform/exhibit dances, visual art, music, and dramatic stories from a variety of cultures expressing the relationship between people and their culture.
   

Standard 3
Students will develop an understanding of their environment.

Objective 1
Investigate plants and plant growth.

1. Observe and draw pictures of plants.
   
2. Compare seeds of plants and describe ways they may be carried through the environment (e.g., wind, water, animals).
   
3. Observe and describe plants as they grow from seeds.
   
4. Identify how people use plants (e.g., food, clothing, paper, shelter).
   
5. Investigate and report conditions that affect plant growth.
   

Objective 2
Investigate water and interactions with water.

1. Observe and measure characteristics of water as a solid and liquid.
   
2. Compare objects that float and sink in water.
   
3. Measure and predict the motion of objects in water.
   
4. Describe how plants and people need, use, and receive water.
   

Objective 3
Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment.

1. Use map skills to identify features of the neighborhood and community.
   
2. Create representations that show size relationships among objects of the home, classroom, school, or playground.
   
3. Identify map and globe symbols (e.g., cardinal directions, compass rose, mountains, rivers, lakes).
   
4. Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (i.e., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean).
   

 

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