Howard Resources

(Some topics may not be addressed in class.)

August
Establish Classroom Routines
Getting to Know You: Names and New Friends
Learning Color Songs and Letter Names
Calendar
Color Patterns (AB)
Making Graphs

January
Animal Adventures
The Jungle
Weather Watch
Seasons/Winter
Maps
Solid Shapes: 3-Dimensional
Continue Number Awareness to 10
Counting to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's
100th Day Celebration

September
I am Special
Around The Table
My Five Senses
Our Human Body
Nutrition: The Food Pyramid
Apples
Calendar/Days of the Week
Introduce Sound Words (onomatopoeia)
Time for a Rhyme
Continue Color Songs and Color Patterns (ABB, ABC) Pattern Trains and Hopscotch
Position Words and Sorting/Classification
Shapes All Around Us
Making Graphs
Counting: one-to-one Correspondence
Animals I Like
Pets

February
Around the Town
Transportation
Valentine's
Mail
Community Helpers
More about Maps
USA Symbols
Meet the President
Rodeo/ Cowboys
Simple Machines/balls
Continue with Solid Shapes: 3-Dimensional
Number Sense
Time and Money

October
Animals I Like
Pets
Watch Me Grow
My Five Senses
Our Human Body
Nutrition: The Food Pyramid
Apples
The Skeletal System
Pumpkins
Rhyming Words and Numbers
Family and Friends
Practice your address and phone number

Continue Color Songs and Patterning
Number Awareness to 5 and Counting
Continue Sorting/Classification
Making Graphs

March
Growing Things
Plants: Parts of a plant
Farm: A Working Farm, Farm Animals
Eggs: Parts of an egg
Incubating eggs: Egg to Chick
Seasons/Spring
Mathematical Problem Solving (+/-)
Continue with Time and Money

November
Voting / Elections
Animal Families
Animal Classification
Animal Habitats
Seasons/Autumn
Sound words revisited (onomatopoeia)
Thanksgiving: Native Americans and Pilgrims
A Pow Wow at Howard
Thanksgiving Feast
Number Awareness to 10
Making Graphs

April
Bugs Surprises
Life Cycles: Butterfly, Insects, and Spiders
Letter Review
Fiesta
Under the Ocean
Rocks and Minerals
Mathematical Problem Solving (+/-)
Addition and Subtraction
Larger Numbers/Place Value

December
Silly Business
Christmas/Holidays Around the World
Gingerbread Man
Measurement and Counting
Continue Number Awareness to 10

May
Under the Ocean
Science Properties of Water (Forms of Matter)
Mother's Day
Letter Review
Review of Sight Words
Continue Addition and Subtraction