Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Identifying and Creating Visual Patterns

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Produce rhyming words
• Use words that describe color, size, and location

Math

• Compare attributes of two objects using appropriate vocabulary
• Create and extend patterns with actions, words, sound, and objects
• Identify and draw shapes
• Name the ordinal positions in a sequence such as first, second, and third
• Predict what comes next in a pattern
• Sequence events
• Use words such as "before" or "after" to describe relative position in a sequence of events or objects

Science

• Create patterns using knowledge of properties of objects
• Identify patterns using knowledge of properties of objects

Unit 2: Patterns in Sounds, Words, and Actions

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Become familiar with a variety of types of books: nursery rhymes, story books, and informational books
• Discuss, illustrate, or dramatize a story or poem
• Identify rhyming words
• Identify words that name persons, places, or things and words that describe actions
• Read or attempt to read simple text
• Recognize that spoken language has identifiable speech sounds
• Recognize that the sequence of letters represents the sequence of sounds in a word
• Recognize the beginning, middle, and end of a story
• Understand that letter combinations make words
• Understand that some words begin and end alike
• Use author's model of language
• Use props and pictures to support spoken messages
• Use sentences to convey ideas

Math

• Create and extend patterns with actions, words, sound, and objects
• Extend a pattern
• Name the ordinal positions in a sequence such as first, second, and third
• Predict what comes next in a pattern
• Recognize and describe shapes
• Use words such as "before" or "after" to describe relative position in a sequence of events or objects

Science

• Create patterns using knowledge of properties of objects
• Identify patterns using knowledge of properties of objects

Unit 3: Patterns in Your World

Science, Social Studies, Language Arts

Language Arts

• Act out a story
• Activate prior knowledge before and during the reading of text
• Answer questions about a story read aloud
• Listen to a story read aloud
• Practice reading simple texts
• Recognize that text moves from left to right
• Record dominant consonant letters
• Record or dictate knowledge on a topic
• Sequence events
• Understand that spoken words represent written language
• Use props and pictures to support spoken messages
• Write capital and lowercase letters
• Write from left to right
• Write labels
• Write letters of the alphabet

Math

• Collect and organize data
• Compare numbers of objects
• Complete spatial visualization tasks
• Connect model, number, and word
• Count by 2s
• Count objects in a set
• Create and extend patterns with actions, words, sound, and objects
• Engage in visual spatial activities
• Find patterns in graphs
• Identify and describe patterns
• Predict what comes next in a pattern
• Read a calendar
• Recognize and create a variety of patterns
• Recognize and describe shapes
• Recognize concept of calendar time
• Sequence events
• Write numbers 1-20

Science

• Identify and describe different types of weather
• Identify patterns using knowledge of properties of objects
• Identify properties of objects
• Observe and describe animals
• Observe and describe weather changes
• Recognize the position and motion of objects
• Record observations about parts of plants
• Understand that night and day occur because of the Earth's rotation

Social Studies

• Identify customs and symbols associated with holidays
• Place events in chronological order