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Curriculum - Lower School

Kindergarten and Grade 1

Kindergarten - Language Arts

Reading

• Letter recognition (name and sound) (Letters Aa-Zz)
• Double final consonants
• Compound words
• Long vowels with final silent e
• Rhyming words
• Long vowels with vowel pairs
• Yy as a vowel blend
• Final blends
• Inflectional endings
• Consonant diagraphs
• Syllabication
• Contractions
• Clusters
• Comprehension
  • Sequence of events
  • Making predictions
  • Problem solving
  • Cause and effect
  • Noting Details

English

• Capitalization of own name and names of others
• Recognize sentence form
• Punctuation/end marks
  • Period
  • Exclamation mark
  • Question mark
  • Quotation marks
  • Comma
• Parts of speech (nouns, action verbs)
• Subject/verb agreement
• Creative writing (journal writing)

Kindergarten - Math

• Classification
• Positions
• Patterns
• Sorting by likeness/difference
• Comparing sets
• Pictographs
• Graphing
• Ordinals 1-5
• Zero
• Writing numbers 1-10
• Plane shapes and fractions
• Patterns with shapes
• Symmetry/fractions
• Solid shapes (sort by kind, identify and name, name surfaces of solid shapes)
• Numbers 11-20 (ordering, more and less)
• Time of day (minute and hour hands, digital and analog clocks, ordering events)
• Temperature
• Money (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, number sense, money match)
• Length (compare and order, hands-on measure, estimate measure, measurement tools)
• Weight & Capacity (compare weight, order by weight, compare capacity, order by capacity, tools for measurement)

Grade 1 - Language Arts

Reading

• Letter recognition (name and sound) (Letters Aa-Zz)
• Blending
• Short vowels
• Long vowels
• Vowel pairs
• Rr-controlled vowels
• Clusters
• Triple clusters
• Final clusters
• Double final consonants
• Final endings
• Verb endings
• Contractions
• Silent letters
• Diagraphs
• Base words
• Compound words
• Word endings
• Syllabication
• Comprehension
  • Sequence of events
  • Compare and contrast
  • Cause and effect
  • Categorize and classify
  • Problem solving
  • Parts of a book
  • Topic/main idea
  • Story structure
  • Noting details
  • Making generalizations
  • Predict/infer
  • Drawing conclussions
  • Summarizing
  • Fantasy/reality
  • Monitor/clarify

English

• Identification
  • Sentences
  • Capital letters
  • Periods
  • Commas
  • Question marks
  • Nouns & pronouns
  • Verbs (present tense, past tense, state of being)
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Conjunctions
• Define
  • Nouns & pronouns
  • Verbs (present tense, past tense, state of being)
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Conjunctions
• When to use periods
• When to use question marks
• Comma placement (in dates, in names
• Adding -s for plural nouns
• Naming yourself last
• Capitalization
  • Peoples names
  • Places
  • Days of the week
  • Months of the year
  • Holidays
• Alphabetical order (to 1st, 2nd, & 3rd letters)
• Contractions
• Homonyms
• Homophones
• Synonyms
• Antonyms

Grade 1 - Math

• Estimating (measures, sums, quantities)
• Fractions (meaning of fractions, modeling fractions, reading fractions)
• Number theory (even numbers, odd numbers)
• Place value (whole numbers)
• Horizontal form
• Number sentences
• Missing numbers in number sentences
• Missing operation symbols in number sentences
• Using double facts
• Classifying
• Sorting 
• Venn diagrams
• Addition
  • Adding-related facts
  • Basic facts to 20
  • Three addends
  • Adding 2-digit numbers
  • Estimating sums
  • Horizontal addition
  • Counting on
  • Drawing a picture to add
  • Using a number line to add
  • Making ten
  • Adding with zero
  • Adding money
• Subtraction
  • Basic facts to 20
  • Fact families to 20
  • Strategies for subtraction
  • Subtracting 2-digit numbers
  • Horizontal subtraction
  • Counting back
  • Drawing a picture to subtract
  • Using a number line to subtract
  • Checking subtraction
  • Checking subtraction with addition
  • Subtracting with zero
  • Subtracting money
• Mental math
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Counting on
  • Counting back
  • Patterns
• Multiplication
  • Drawing a picture to multiply
  • Skip-counting by 2's
  • Skip-counting by 5's
  • Skip-counting by 10's
• Properties (associative, commutative, zero)
• Comparing and ordering numbers
  • Money amounts
  • Before/after
  • Between
  • Greater than/less than
  • Is equal to
  • Using a number line
  • Writing <, >, =
• Counting, reading, and writing numbers
  • Money amounts
  • Penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar
  • Numbers 0-20
  • Counting to 100
  • Reading words zero to twenty
• Patterns (continuing patterns, completing patterns, time patterns, geometric patterns)
• Basic geometric figures
  • Identify
  • Draw
  • Identify sides & corners
  • Relate solid/plane figures
  • Symmetry
• Solid figures
  • Identify
  • Flips
  • Slides
  • Turns
• Capacity
  • Measuring cup
  • Measuring pint
  • Measuring quart
  • Comparing capacity
  • Estimating capacity
• Length
  • Measuring inches
  • Measuring centimeters
  • Choosing appropriate unit
  • Comparing length
• Money
  • Recognition (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar)
  • Making purchases
  • Equivalent amounts
  • Symbolic notation
• Temperature (reading a thermometer, comparing degrees)
• Time
  • Days in a week
  • Months of the year
  • Months before/months after
  • Ordinal numbers
  • Reading a calendar
  • Making a calendar
  • Reading a clock (analog/digital)
  • Estimating (length of time for an activity, elapsed time, a minute, an hour)
  • Sequencing events
  • Telling time (to 5 minutes, to half-hour, to the hour)
  • Solving problems involving time
  • Writing time two ways
• Weight and mass (estimating weight, comparing weight, pounds)
• Data analysis
  • Collecting and organizing data
  • Reading and interpreting data
  • Bar graphs
  • Pictographs
  • Pictures
  • Tables/charts
  • Making bar graphs, pictographs, tables
  • Using tally marks
• Probability
  • Making predictions
  • Probability experiments
  • Recording outcomes
  • Using cubes/spinners
• Strategies
  • Acting it out
  • Choosing an operation
  • Drawing a picture/diagram
  • Finding a pattern
  • Guessing and checking
  • Making a table
  • Monitoring and reflecting
  • Using logical reasoning
• Analyzing and evaluating thinking
  • Determine reasonableness of an answer
  • Estimating an answer
  • Explaining reasoning
  • Identifying relevant information
  • Recognizing too much information