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THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TOPICS THAT SHOULD BE COVERED THIS YEAR AND DOCUMENTED. THEY ARE INTENDED AS SUGGESTIONS. YOUR STATE MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

Social Studies
Holidays and folk customs. Native Americans. Explorers and pioneers.
Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions. History and development of local community.
Community helpers. Consumers and producers. Sources of food and clothing.
Shelters of animals and people. History and development of transportation.
History and development of communication. Citizenship and social responsibility.
Basic human needs and wants. Local geography and topography.
U. S. geography and regions. The continents. Flat maps and globes

Science
Animal helpers. Dinosaurs. Life cycle. Plants and animals of the desert.
Plants and animals of the sea. Common birds, trees, flowers. Forest plants.
Conservation of plants and animals. Weather and climate. Earth's changing surface.
Magnets and electricity. Compass. Gravity. Light and color. Energy and its sources.
Force and work. Machines. Moon and stars. Earth satellites. Scientific method and inquiry

Language Arts
Silent reading. Reading prose and poetry aloud. Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally.
Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word. Dictionary skills. Developing word-attack methods.
Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms. Spelling. Beginning cursive writing. Concept of paragraph.
Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks.
Writing short, original stories and poems. Post writing skills: editing and proofreading.
Increasing indexing skills

Health and Safety
Care of eyes and ears. Dental health. Proper balance of activities. Healthful leisure activities.
Prevention and control of diseases. Parts of the body. Nutrition.
Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing. School and community health services.
Home safety hazards. Safety in the community. Simple first aid.

Mathematics
Reading and writing numbers to 5 places. Beginning Roman numerals. Rounding numbers.
Positive and negative numbers in daily life. Simple fractions and equivalents. Properties of one.
Numeration systems. Addition and subtraction facts to 25. Multiplication and division facts to 100.
Perimeter, area, volume. Geometric constructions. Similar and congruent figures.
Properties of solid figures. Customary and metric measurement.
Time to 1- and 5-minute measures. Estimation of outcomes. Problems-solving analysis.
Word problems. Charts and graphs