Pre-Kindergarten
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Reading/
Language Arts
 Students
are immersed in a language rich environment with many opportunities to
engage in purposeful conversation, increase their active and passive vocabularies,
and use language skills to express ideas and gather information.
Students participate in group writing activities and have many opportunities
to approximate written language. Students experience a wide range
of literature and non-fiction text and respond to information seen and
heard. Information is presented naturally and slowly, using increasing
accurate approximations in a social and cultural context. |
Math
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The
pre-kindergarten mathematics standards and expectancies include an emphasis
on how students acquire and use strategies to perceive, understand, and
act on mathematical problems. Students will be actively engaged in
mathematics through instruction in patterns, relationships, and seeking
multiple solutions to problems. The larger context of understanding
and application is stressed over concepts and procedures. |
Science
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The
pre-kindergarten standards and expectancies emphasize the natural and physical
world. Students at this age are beginning to explore the sciences
by actively engaging in process skills through observing, simple recording,
describing, questioning, forming explanations, and drawing conclusions. |
Social
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The
standards for the students in pre-kindergarten through second grade include
the basic concepts of the individual, family and neighborhood. Instruction
centers on the similar and different ways that individuals and groups address
human needs and concerns. Students learn vocabulary associated with
time such as past, present, future, and long ago. Students use maps
and globes to identify and locate some places and geographic features.
They learn the concepts of self-control, fairness, and leadership.
Citizenship education emphasizes following rules and respecting the rights
of people. Students build time lines, identify the purpose of government,
and use economic concepts. They also explore ways that language,
art, music, and other cultural elements lead to global understanding.
(DoDEA Mannuel 2000.4-1
Sept. 1998)
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