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COURSE OF STUDY
For
6th, 7th and 8th Grade Curriculum Information
see the Middle School pages
Kindergarten |
Social Studies |
- Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs
- Understanding and appreciating other cultures
- Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
- Relationship of the individual to the group |
- Work and jobs
- Safety rules and symbols
- Basic human needs
- Self respect and self-awareness
- Awareness of others
- Location of home and school
- Diagram of home and school |
Science |
- Observation of everyday, familiar things
- Common animals and plants
- Classification of living things
- Farm animals
- Care of pets
- Like and unlike plants
- Indoor plants |
- The Sun: Our principal source of energy
- Weather and seasons
- Light
- Colors
- Senses
- Earth, moon, stars, plants
- Simple measurements
- Beginning experimentation
- Temperature |
Language Arts |
- Reading-readiness activities
- Phonics
- Choral reading
- Listening to literature, music, poetry
- Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables
- Constructing visual images while listening
- Social listening
- Role play
- Oral communication skills |
- Following and giving directions
- Paraphrasing and summarizing
- Organizing ideas
- Experience stories
- Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
- Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
- Beginning writing process
- Manuscript handwriting |
Health And Safety |
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Personal hygiene
- Good eating habits
- Good grooming
- Care of teeth |
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Major body parts
- Physical fitness
- Safety to and from school |
Mathematics |
- Simple counting to 20
- One-to-one relationship
- Concepts of more, less, than, same
- Sequence of events
- Correspondence of quantities
- Ordinal-cardinal relationships
- Number-numeral relationship
- Recognition of basic sets |
- Meaning of addition and subtraction
- Introduction to number line
- Estimation
- Elementary geometry (shapes)
- Calendar and clock
- Denominations of money
- Basic problem-solving strategies
- Basic chart and graph concepts |
1st Grade |
Social Studies |
- Holiday, traditions, and customs
- Our American heritage
- Different cultures at different times
- Family, school, neighborhood community |
- Farm and zoo
- Neighborhood helpers
- Jobs and careers
- Social skills and responsibilities
- Basic geography terms |
Science |
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Grouping and classification
- Living and nonliving things
- Animals
- Pets
- Farm animals
- Zoo and circus animals
- Woodland animals
- Common birds
- Plant and animal habitats
- Seeds, bulbs, plants, and flowers |
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Weather and seasons
- Day and night
- Solids, liquids, and gases
- Air and water
- Magnets
- Fire and temperature
- Sun, moon, stars, and planets
- Simple machines
- Beginning experiments |
Language Arts |
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Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary
- Reading informally: labels, and signs, for
example
- Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
- Creating stories and poems
-Telling favorite stories
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Enunciation and pronunciation
- Presenting information orally, in sequence
and with clarity |
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Book reports and critiques
- Discussions skills: taking part in group discussion
- Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
- Beginning spelling
- Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
- Manuscript handwriting
- Handling books
- Using table of contents
- Development of class newspaper |
Health And Safety |
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Personal hygiene
- Dental health
- Good eating habit
- Exercise and rest
- Diseases |
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Common cold
- Dressing for weather and activity
- Safety rules to and from school |
Mathematics |
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Counting and writing to 100
- Counting by 2's to 40
- Simple number patterns
- Beginning ordinal numbers
- Using 10 as a basic unit
- Simple properties of zero
- Simple properties of sets
- Beginning addition and subtraction facts
- Number-line use
- Place value and numeration
- Concepts of quantity and size
- Concepts of equality and size
- Concepts of equality and inequality |
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Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers
- Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately
- Estimation
- Geometric patterns and figures
- Basic customary and metric measurement
- Recognizing time: clock and calendar
- Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter
- Solving simple word problems
- Basic probability and chance
- Basic chart and graph concepts |
2nd Grade |
Social Studies |
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Holidays and festivals
- Patriotic celebrations
- Communities in other lands: past and present
- Family and family history
- Families around the world
- Neighborhoods
- Community services and helpers |
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Shelters, stores, and food
- Citizenship and social responsibility
- Interdependence of people
- Basic geography: oceans, continents
- Map skills |
Science |
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Useful and harmful animals
- Life cycle
- Birds and insects
- Animal defense of themselves and their young
- Plants and animal food
- Dinosaurs and other extinct animals
- Food chain
- Plant reproduction and growth
- Habitats and homes
- Weather and its effects on our earth |
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Effects of the seasons on the lives of people,
animals, and plants
- Climate
- Water cycle
- Air and atmosphere
- Magnets and forces
- Gravity
- Earth and sky
- Sun, moon, and planets
- Simple constellations
- Exploring space |
Language Arts |
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Reading silently for specific purposes
- Dramatizations and interpretation or oral
reading
- Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
- Story development: beginning, middle, end
- Simple book reviews
- Listening skills
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Alphabetizing through second letter
- Using dictionary guide words
- Vocabulary development |
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Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
- Methods of word attack
- Ways to study spelling
- Simple punctuation and capitalization
- Refining manuscript handwriting
- Writing independently in manuscript form
- Brief and simple letters and journals
- Narration, description, letters, poetry
- Increasing skill in handling books: table
of contents |
Health And Safety |
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Personal cleanliness
- Dental hygiene
- Basic food groups
- Communicable diseases |
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Preventive measures against disease
- Neighborhood safety |
Mathematics |
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Counting, reading, and writing to 1,000
- Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 10's
- Ordinal numbers to 10
- Zero as a place holder
- Using sets and number facts
- Addition and subtraction facts to 20
- Basic multiplication and division facts
- Multiplication and division facts as inverse
operations
- Multiplication properties of 0 and 1
- Place value through 100's |
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Fractions in daily life
- Decimal numeration system
- Basic concept of ratio
- Geometry puzzles and activities
- Estimation
- Common customary and metric measures of time,
weight, length, volume, shape, temperature
- Telling time and using the calendar
- Handling money (coins)
- Problem solving
- Charts and graphs |
3rd Grade |
Social Studies |
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Holidays and folk customs
- Native Americans
- Explorers and pioneers
- Appreciation of different cultures, races,
and religions
- History and development of local community
- Community helpers
- Consumers and producers
- Sources of our food and clothing
- Shelters of animals and people |
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History and development of transportation and
communications
- Citizenship and social responsibility
- Basic human needs and wants
- Local region's geography and topography
- U.S. geography and regions
- The continents
- Flat maps and globes |
Science |
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Animal helpers
- Dinosaurs
- Life cycle
- Plants and animals of the desert
- Plants and animals of the sea
- Common birds, trees, and flowers
- Forest plants
- Conservation of plants and animals
- Weather and climate |
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Earth's changing face
- Magnets and electricity
- Compass
- Gravity
- Light and color
- Energy and its sources
- Force and work
- Machines
- Moon and stars
- Earth satellites |
Language Arts |
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Silent Reading
- Reading prose and poetry aloud
- Oral presentations: reporting experiences
orally with accuracy
- Alphabetizing through third letter
- 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 |
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Care of eyes and ears
- Dental health
- Proper balance of activities
- Healthful leisure activities
- Prevention and control of diseases
- Nutrition |
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Health with relation to food, shelter, and clothing
- School and community health services
- Home safety standards
- Safety in the community
- Simple first aid |
Mathematics |
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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 |
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Perimeter, area, volume
- Geometric constructions
- Similar and congruent figures
- Properties of solid figures
- Customary and metric measurements
- Time to 1 and 5 minute measures
- Estimation of outcomes
- Problem-solving analysis
- Word problems
- Charts and graphs |
4th Grade |
Social Studies |
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Types of community life
- History and development of the local state
- Relation of state to its region, nation, and
the world
- World cultures
- Reasons for our laws
- Regions of the world
- Continents |
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Time zones
- Earth's resources
- Climatic regions: regions of the four seasons;
hot, dry desert regions; cold, hot and mild
regions; mountainous regions
- Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale
- Using a globe |
Science |
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Structure of plants
- Environment of local state
- Biological organizations
- Classification systems
- The insect world
- Plants and animals of the past
- Structure of plants
- Seeds
- Ecosystems
- Balance of nature
- Human body |
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Weather influences
- Weather instruments
- Climate
- Causes of seasons
- Earth and its history
- Oceans and the hydrosphere
- Air and water pollution
- Magnets and electricity
- Light and color
- Solar systems and the universe
- Living in space |
Language Arts |
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Silent and oral reading
- Choral reading
- Listening skills
- Telephone skills
- Making and accepting simple instructions
- Summarizing simple information
- Listening to literature
- Critical reading
- Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays
- Spelling
- Increasing dictionary skills |
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Cursive handwriting
- Simple outlining
- Writing letters and informal notes
- Written and oral book reports
- Creative writing
- Developing skills in locating information
- Increasing indexing skills
- Developing encyclopedia skills
- Parts of a newspaper |
Health and Safety |
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Personal and mental hygiene
- Dental health
- The body and its functions
- Skeletal and muscular system
- Care and proper use of the body |
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Principles of digestion
- Basic food groups
- Good nutrition habits
- Diseases
- Safety |
Mathematics |
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Reading and writing numbers
- Roman numerals to C
- Prime numbers less than 100
- Prime factoring
- Numeration systems
- Subsets
- Decimal and fraction equivalence
- Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places
- Multiplication and division facts to 144
- 1-, 2-, 3-digit multiplication problems |
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2- and 3- digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems
- Meaning of mixed numbers
- Finding simple averages
- Geometric concepts
- Customary and metric measurement
- Time to the second
- Problem-solving methods
- Charts and graphs
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5th Grade |
Social Studies |
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American exploration and discovery
- Establishment and settlements in the New World
- Colonial life in America
- Pioneer life in America
- Revolutionary War in America
- Westward movement
- Industrial and cultural growth
- Democracy's principles and documents
- Life in the U.S. and its possessions |
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Geography of the U.S.
- Canada and Mexico
- Relationship of the U.S. with Canada
- Comparative cultures of Canada,
-Countries and cultures of the Western Hemisphere:
Central America, West Indies, South America
- Map and globe skills |
Science |
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Biological adaptations
- Biotic communities
- Animal and plant classification
- Fish
- Reptiles
- Bacteria
- Molds
- Trees
- Plants and their food
- Conservation
- Cells
-Human body |
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Landforms
- Properties of air and water
- Time and seasons
- Temperature and thermometers
- Magnetic fields
- Use and control of electricity
- Conduction and convection
- Light and optics
- Force systems
- Chemical systems
- Sun and solar system
- Space and space exploration |
Language Arts |
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Silent and oral reading
- Types of literature
- Presenting original plays
- Listening skills
- Dictionary use for word meaning, analysis,
spelling
- Common homonyms
- Homophones and homographs
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Using a thesaurus
- Spelling
- Plurals and possessives
- Kinds of sentences
- Parts of sentences |
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Cursive handwriting
- Outlining
- Paragraph writing
- Writing letters, stories, reports, poems,
plays
- Preparing a simple bibliography
- Proofreading skills
- Parts of a newspaper
- Using study materials: keys, tables, graphs,
charts, legends, library file cards, index,
table of contents, reference materials, maps |
Health And Safety |
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Dental hygiene
- Or water supplies
- Sewage disposal
- Care of the eyes
- Nutrition and diet |
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Diseases
- Germ-bearing insects and pests
- Community health resources
- Elementary first aid
- Bicycle and water safety |
Mathematics |
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Reading and writing numbers to 10 places
- Mixed numbers
- Set of the integers
- Numeration systems
- Addition, subtraction, Multiplication, and
division of whole numbers
- Fundamental processes: whole numbers and common
fractions
- Common and decimal fractions |
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Decimals to thousandths
- Ratio and percent
- Exponents
- Customary and metric measurement
- Extension of geometric concepts
- Word problems in daily life
- Charts and graphs (picture, bar, line, and
circle graphs)
- Concept of sampling |
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