- Herman L. Horn Elementary
- Curriculum
English
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- Grow in oral language
- Expand and use speaking and listening vocabularies in conversations
- Use phonics, meaning clues, and language structure to read and self correct
- Read familiar stories with fluency and expression
- Read, comprehend, and retell stories
- Identify major characters and events
- Predict outcomes
- Print legibly
- Write complete sentences using descriptive words, correct capitalization and punctuation
- Participate in daily Writer’s Workshop activities
- Make and use a personal dictionary
Science
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- Plan and conduct investigations
- Investigate different kinds of motions
- Investigate how water interacts with solids
- Investigate plant needs and characteristics
- Investigate animal needs and characteristics
- Investigate the relationship between the sun and the Earth
- Investigate seasonal changes
- Investigate the limit of natural resources and the need to conserve them
Mathematics
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- Count, recognize and write the numerals 1-100
- Develop an understanding of place value for ones and tens
- Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Identify ordinal positions to ten
- Count sets of pennies, nickels, and dimes to 100 cents or less
- Tell time to the hour and half hour using both digital and analog clocks
- Use nonstandard and standard units to measure length, weight, and volume
- Draw, describe, and identify a shape by the number of sides, corners, and square corners it has
- Investigate, identify, describe, and use different charts and graphs
- Sort and classify objects according to their attributes
- recognize, describe, and extend a pattern
- Identify and represent the fractions for one-half and one-fourth
- Recall basic addition and subtraction facts to 10
- Solve one step story problems
Social Studies
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- Identify famous Americans
- Compare life then and now
- Create time lines
- Study famous events and holidays
- Use and create maps
- Locate Washington D.C., Richmond, the United States, and Virginia on a map
- Identify how climate and location affect us
- Compare our geography with other places
- Identify examples of producers and consumers
- Explain the need to make choices
- Identify ways to save money
- Identify attributes of a good citizen
- Describe and create class rules
- Identify different ethnic customs and traditions
- Identify state and national symbols
Technology
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- Write and save a simple sentence using word processing
- Illustrate using drawing programs.
- Participate in database and graphing activities.