Each topic is listed in the order that I feel most comfortable covering. We spend more time on some topics than others and this checklist is meant only as a guide.

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__ Can write the vowel digraph when hearing a word with the digraph in it.

(Examples of vowel digraphs are oa, ew, ow, ou, ie, aw, ea, ie, ue)

__ Can read and write words containing endings (such as ly, ful, y, en, ies)

__ Can write the past tense of common verbs

__ Can write plural nouns

__ Can read and write contractions

__ Can sound out multi-syllable words.

__ Can address an envelope

__ Can write a friendly letter using the correct format (date, greeting/salutation, body, closing, signature)

__ Has acted out simple pantomimes and plays

__ Has created stories and poems

__ Can tell a favorite story

__ Can verbally recall stories or events in sequence and with clarity

__ Has written book reports and identify plot, characters, and setting of books

__ Can alphabetize using the second and first letter of the word.

__ Can point out the noun, verb and adjective in a simple sentence.

__ Can point out proper nouns and knows to capitalize them

__ Can punctuate and capitalize simple sentences and quotations

__ Can look up words in a dictionary and use guide words in the dictionary

__ Can divide two syllable words

__ Can use the table of contents and index in books

__ Can memorize a short poem

__ Reads silently for purpose and reflects on what is read

__ Can dramatize oral reading

__ Writes a story with a beginning, middle and end

__ Identifies homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms

__ Uses different approaches to studying spelling words

__ Handwriting is improving

__ Writes independently

__ Counts and writes to 1000

__ Counts by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 10's

__ Can complete number patterns, series and progressions

__ Uses zero as a place holder

__ Writes numbers in expanded form (ie 739= 9 + 30 + 700)

__ Can evaluate inequalities and equalities in numbers from 1-1000

__ Differentiates sets

__ Can add and subtract two and three digit numbers without regrouping

__ Can use a number line

__ Understands the commutative property (example 2+3=3+2) of both addition and multiplication.

__ Uses variables in simple addition problems (ie: 5 + x = 10 )

__ Knows addition and subtraction facts to 20

__ Knows multiplication and division facts to 5

__ Knows addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts as inverse operations

Example: 2+3=5 5-3=2

__ Ratio

__ Can recognize the place value for 1's, 10's, 100's and 1000's

__ Recognizes two and three dimensional shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle, cone, sphere, cube, pyramid, cylinder)

__ Can measure using both metric and customary tools to the 1/10th

__ Can read a clock at the hour, half hour and quarter hour

__ Can read a calendar and create a calendar and knows the months of the year in order

__ Knows the value of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar and can make change

__ Knows the value of coin combinations

__ Can write the value of coins and uses the dollar and cent sign correctly

__ Can solve simple word problems

__ Can read and create basic charts and graphs

__ Recognize and the know the names of the planets, sun, moon and stars and some constellations

__ Space exploration

__ Knows the layers of the earth and the atmosphere

__ Understands how weather affects the earth's surface

__ Gravity

__ The Water Cycle

__ Solids, liquids and gasses

__ Cycles in Nature

__ Effects of weather and seasons on people, animals and plants

__ Animal homes

__ Animal defenses

__ Food chain

__ Plant reproduction

__ Simple machines

__ Magnets

__ Scientific method and experiments

__ Social responsibility

__ Holidays, traditions and customs of several ethnic peoples

__ Families around the word

__ Past cultures and events in stories, fables, folklore, The Bible as well as non fiction

__ History and timelines ( we have a 12 foot timeline and add events as we read about

them)

__ Identifying the oceans and continents

__ Peoples of Asia (India, China, Japan), Australia, Africa and Europe

__ Mexico and Canada

__ Can create maps and locate where he/she lives on a state, US and world map

__ Can locate Biblical events on a timeline and a map

__ Family history

__ The 5 senses

__ Disease prevention

__ Exercise and fresh air

__ Healthy eating

__ Sleep and rest

__ Illness and microbes

__ Personal cleanliness

__ Dental hygiene

__ Home safety rules

__ Fire prevention

__ Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

__ Personal safety