Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
New York State English Language Arts
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

New York State Math, Science and Technology
Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.
 
Standard 3: Mathematics
Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

Standard 4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Standard 5: Technology
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

New York State Languages Other Than English
Standard 1: Communication Skills
Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication

Student Objectives
Content Learning
Students will be able to: 

• Recognize letters 
• Read basic site words 
• Write their names 
• Identify and complete three-to-five part patterns 
• Complete single-digit addition and subtraction 
• Match equations to math stories 
• Finger-spell letters in American Sign Language 
• Reproduce letter/sound associations 
• Use phonic skills to predict spelling 
• Record and predict moon phases 
• Record and predict weather 
• Make complimentary peer statements 
• Actively participate in a lesson

• Use basic technological vocabulary, such as monitor, mouse, slides, Internet, cursor 
• Manipulate a mouse and cursor 
• Recognize the Internet as an information and communication resource