Your child will learn:

Knowledge and Skill:

• Students will be able to identify a globe and a map.
• Students will be able to identify north, south, east, west, land, and water.
• Students will be able to name several ways to travel from one place to another. 

Heritage:

• Students will be introduced to differences and similarities in family structure (how many brothers, sisters, grandparents, etc.)

Citizenship:

• Students will recognize that people are part of a community.
• Students will be able to identify community workers and their jobs. 

Diversity:

• Students will know sources of current events.

Interdependence: 

• Students will be aware of ways to safely take care of themselves.
• Students will recognize individual similarities and differences.
• Students will recognize that everyone has feelings.
• Each student will realize he/she needs to follow rules and make good choices, take turns, cooperate and take responsibility.

Change:

• Students will be introduced to school helpers such as office help, principal, lunch duty aide, DARE Officer, and librarian.
• Students will understand their role in the school.
• Students will be aware of ways to get to school (bus, car, walk).