Early Childood

K-5 Language Arts

Younger students focus on balanced and direct instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, writing, and reading comprehension.  Students continue their learning with reading, writing, and grammar through a variety of instructional approaches that meet individual learning needs.

K-5 Math

Early learners learn math skills through demonstration and application with fun and engaging activities.  As students master skills they move on to learning more in-depth concepts, working with online manipulatives, exploratory activities, and challenging reward games.

Kindergarten

• Math – 24 Skills and Activities
  • Compare two objects by size, using the terms “bigger,” “shorter,” “taller”, or “shorter”, Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence between numbers and objects, Estimate and count the number of objects in a set, and more.

• ELA – 200+ Skills and Activities
  • Become familiar with printed letters, names of letters, and letter sounds, Read aloud printed words, Compose simple messages using a combination of pictures, symbols, letters, and familiar words, and more

1^st Grade

• Math – 100+ Skills and Activities
  • Organize data by attribute, construct a picture graph, and interpret (compare) the data, Classify everyday objects by their 3-dimensional shape, Apply reasoning strategies in working with geometric concepts, computation, measurement, and problem solving, and more.

• ELA – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Create rhyming words by inserting appropriate beginning letters, Use sentence context clues to complete words with missing letters, Associate phoneme word families with pictures that represent words containing their sounds, and more

2^nd Grade

• Math – 100+ Skills and Activities
  • Use critical thinking to compare and order whole numbers to one hundred, Add coins to equal amounts up to one dollar, Represent and explain dividing as the sharing of a quantity equally, and more

• ELA – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Complete a sentence with an appropriate word or picture, Organize ideas in a logical sequence using a graphic organizer, Develop basic reading comprehension including compound words, and more

3^rd Grade

• Math – 100+ Skills and Activities
  • Estimate, measure, and record the mass of familiar objects using standard units and recognize that shape and size does not necessarily determine mass, Use critical thinking and addition facts to 18 (to place numbers into square so that the sums on each side, and diagonal, are equal), Count by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s to generate the next numbers in a pattern, and more

• ELA – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Correctly answer literal and limited amount of inferential questions and activities targeting: main idea, cause/effect, details/facts, comparison/contrast, sequence, vocabulary, and retelling/paraphrasing, Demonstrate an understanding of the treatment of subject and verb relationships, Become familiar with conventions of print such as reading left to right, visual clues, inflection/pronunciation, and rhythm (based on listening to the story being read by a narrator and tracked by highlighting), and more

4^th Grade

• Math – 200+ Skills and Activities
  • Identify the common factors of two or more whole numbers, Use equations to represent word problems, Use strategies for adding groups of digits or addends to simplify calculation of the final answer, and more

• ELA – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Identify fiction story structure and elements (beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, plot, and problem or conflict), Identify parts of speech (such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) and verb tenses in context, Independently read a variety of non-fiction reports on biography, zoology, marine biology, and conservation and use the 5 W-H (Who, What, Where, When, and Why? And How?) strategy to focus on important information

• Science – 100+ Skills and Activities
  • Investigate and describe ways in which soil is formed from rocks, Identify and describe fossils and explain how they are formed, Describe the Earth’s water cycle in terms of precipitation, evaporation and condensation, and more

5^th Grade

• Math – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Use the proper order of operations in number sentences with a combination of operations, Determine how to make one fraction equivalent to another one, Identify the attributes of a sphere, cube, pyramid, prism, cone, and cylinder, and more

• ELA – 300+ Skills and Activities
  • Become familiar with the elements of various types of fiction (such as mystery, historical fiction, and science fiction), Analyze and write about the cause and effect of characters’ decisions, Learn conventions of and write a bibliography for a non-fiction report, and more

• Science – 100+ Skills and Activities
  • Classify organisms according to their role in a food chain (e.g., producer, consumer), Identify the cell as the basic unit of life, Describe ways in which classification systems can be used in everyday life, and more