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  • Begin to read independently
  • Sounds of the alphabet (A-Z)
  • Read three and four letter words fluently
  • Sight words
  • Story telling
  • Reading comprehension (SRA reading program)
  • Read fiction and nonfiction: short stories
  • Reading out loud
  • Participate in group story writing using story blocks
  • Making a book report
  • Write a simple story from personal experience
  • Identifying parts of speech: noun, article, adjective and verb
  • Compound words
  • Antonyms
  • Synonyms
  • Syllables
  • Rhyming words
  • Singular and plural
  • Gender: masculine and feminine
  • Spell frequently used words correctly
  • Capitalization and punctuation
  • Print letters correctly (upper and lower case)
  • Introduction to cursive writing
  • Speaking and listening (Great Books: Sun series)
  • Listen and respond to a variety of texts
  • Respond using prediction
  • Relate text to a similar experience
  • Retell stories in sequence
  • Participate in group discussions: Book study
  • Participate in show and tell
  • Introduction to cursive writing
  • Continents and oceans (identifications and names)
  • Map of North America
  • Map of United States of America
  • Parts of a Flag
  • Planets of the solar system
  • Sun and Earth: seasons
  • Different zones
  • Land and water forms
  • Attraction and gravity
  • Earth as a planet
  • Composition of the Earth
  • Biome Readers: introduction to the animals of North America
  • Identify some important natural resources and describe ways to protect them
  • Timeline of human beings and their fundamental needs (pre-historic)
  • Famous personalities in History
  • Holidays
  • Living and Nonliving classification
  • Classify plants and animals according to distinguishing features
  • Parts and body function of vertebrates: fish, amphibian, reptiles, birds and mammals
  • Introduction: Parts of a plant
  • How leaves make food for the plant
  • Introduction: Parts of a leaf
  • Classification of leaves
  • Introduction: Parts of a flower
  • Introduction: Parts of a seed
  • Introduction: Parts of a root
  • Introduction: Parts of a fruit
  • Magnets
  • Parts of the body
  • Talk about digestion
  • Food and nutrition (healthy and unhealthy food)
  • Three States of matter
  • Identify and create patterns
  • Understand numbers and number relationships
  • Place value up to 1000
  • Smaller than and greater than
  • Before and after
  • Problem solving: three and four addition and subtraction (regrouping)
  • Introduction to multiplication and division
  • Memorizing addition and subtraction facts up to 20
  • Tell time to the hour and half-hour
  • Read and use a calendar
  • Recognize, order and write whole numbers to 100 including skip counting
  • Make and read graphs and tables
  • Recognize and count pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
  • Introduction to odd and even numbers
  • Introduction to probability
  • Identify solid figures & plane shapes
  • Introduction to fractions 
  • Equivalent fractions
  • Addition and subtraction of fractions with same denominator
  • Parts of an angle, triangle
  • Types of angles, triantles, polygons & lines
  • Learn to read independently: Chapter books
  • Increase sight vocabulary
  • Develop comprehension skills: (SRA reading program)
  • Differentiate fact from opinion
  • Read, analyzing, and interpreting literature – describe characters, setting, and plot
  • Make a book report 
  • Introduction to structure of poetry and drama
  • Nonfiction and fiction
  • Writing - write narrative and informational pieces; stories, poems, haiku, descriptions, and reports
  • Write sentences related to a topic
  • Include a beginning, middle, and end while writing a story
  • Use descriptive adjectives and active verbs
  • Revise writing
  • Edit writing; spell most words correctly, use basic capitalization and punctuation correctly
  • Speaking and listening – listen to others and express themselves orally in group discussions
  • Participate in group discussion - (Great Books: Dragon series)
  • Parts of speech: noun, article, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition and conjunction
  • Sentence analysis: identify complete subject and predicate
  • Compound words 
  • Antonyms
  • Synonyms
  • Homophones
  • Syllables 
  • Singular and plural 
  • Gender: masculine and feminine 
  • Understanding of groups and communities
  • Rotation and revolution of the Earth and its effects 
  • Seasons and movement of the earth: day and night 
  • Tilt of the axis 
  • Composition of the Earth 
  • Types of rocks 
  • Use maps and globes to locate and identify land forms and bodies of water
  • Fundamental needs and wants 
  • Discuss American History 
  • Identify famous Americans, important places and major holidays in America
  • Demonstrate good citizenship
  • Differentiate the needs of living and non-living things
  • Identify plant and animal adaptations to various habitats
  • Vertebrates and invertebrates 
  • Parts and functions of plants, leaves, flowers and seeds
  • Classification of leaves, flowers and seeds 
  • Introduction to photosynthesis 
  • Theory of Evolution
  • Classify dinosaurs by their characteristics
  • Investigate fossils
  • Parts of the body
  • Introduction to digestion and respiration 
  • Food and nutrition
  • Place value up to 1,000,000
  • Addition and subtraction problems: three-digit and four-digit problems with and without regrouping
  • Apply problem-solving skills
  • Multiplication: one-digit multiplier with and without regrouping
  • Introduction to division
  • Memorizing multiplication facts (1to 5)
  • Recognize, order, compare, and write whole numbers to 1,000,000
  • Count and compare collections of money that include dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies
  • Rounding: tens 
  • Telling time before and after the hour by counting five-minute intervals
  • Odd and even numbers
  • ​Identify and match geometrical, plane, and solid figures
  • Similar and congruent shapes 
  • Fractions: identification and equivalency 
  • Addition and subtraction with common denominator
  • Multiplication: fraction and whole number
  • Identify and explore patterns
  • Calendar: make a calendar and use it to solve problems 
  • Graphs and tables 
  • Measurement
  • Estimate and measure length, height, perimeter, area, volume, capacity, mass, and temperature using customary and metric units
  • Parts and types of an angle 
  • Parts of triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Types of triangles
  • Types of polygons 
  • Types of lines
  • Learn to read independently 
    Increase vocabulary
    Summarize and make connections
    Demonstrate fluency and comprehension: (SRA reading program)
    Differentiate fact from opinion, essential from nonessential information
    Read, analyzing, and interpret literature – describe characters, setting, and plot
    Make a book report
    Identify literary devices in stories, poetry, and drama
    Nonfiction and fiction
    Identify dialogue of characters
    Writing - write narrative and informational pieces using details 
    Write and support an opinion
    Write a play script 
    Paragraph writing 
    Edit for spelling, capitalization and punctuation
    Parts of speech: noun, article, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection
    Types of nouns 
    Sentence analysis 
    Compound words, antonyms, synonyms and homophones 
    Singular and plural 
    Gender: masculine, feminine and common gender 
    Speaking and listening – listen to others and express themselves orally in group discussions (Great Books: Series 3)
    Research – locate information from appropriate sources, organize and present a report
  • Movement of the Earth
  • Space and constellations
  • Seasons and different time zones 
  • Volcanoes and earthquakes 
  • Work of air and temperature change 
  • Fundamental needs of people in different parts of the world
  • Recognize that communities are comprised of people from many cultures
  • Learn how people depend on each other for goods and services
  • Identify features and locations on globes
  • Theory of Evolution 
  • Pre-historic time
  • Famous people in history 
  • Discuss Civil War 
  • Identify the life cycles of plants and animals
  • Parts, functions and classification of a tree, leaf, flower and fruit 
  • Analyze changes in plants and animals and ways they survive in different seasons 
  • Different states of matter: experiments 
  • Different ways of combining: experiments 
  • Sources of energy
  • Water cycle
  • Pollution and methods of conservation
  • Human body: digestion, respiration and circulation 
  • Importance of exercise, rest, and proper nutrition for a healthy body
  • Food and nutrition 
  • Reading food labels and understanding the content
  • Use numbers to count, locate, name, measure, and order
  • Identify place values and read numbers to seven digits
  • Use place value to compare, order, and round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred
  • Solve word problems
  • Count and calculate with money, make change, and use decimals and dollar signs
  • Finding the value of x in a simple equation
  • Use fact families to relate inverse operations
  • Use mental math strategies and estimation to calculate
  • Add and subtract 5-digit numbers with trading
  • Multiplication 3 and 4 digit numbers with a 2 digit multiplier
  • Division 3 and 4 digit numbers with a one digit divisor
  • Tell time to the nearest minute and calculate elapsed time
  • Graphs and tables
  • Measure using customary and metric units for length, weight, temperature and capacity
  • Use probability concepts
  • Research – locate information from appropriate sources, organize and present a report
  • Identify solids, lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, symmetry and congruent/similar/equivalent figures
  • Find perimeter and area
  • Fractions: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Find equivalent fractions
  • Introduction to decimal fraction
     
 
 
  • History of written and spoken language
  • Word study including affixes, compound words and word families
  • Parts of speech including the noun, article, adjective, verb, preposition, pronoun, adverb, conjunction and interjection
  • Verb tenses
  • Sentence analysis
  • Reading and responding to a variety of literary works (Great Books: Series 4)
  • Reading informational text 
  • Developing vocabulary, fluency and speaking skills 
  • Reading comprehension: (SRA reading program)
  • Composition including factual writing, imaginative writing and style
  • Read-aloud and silent reading 
  • Summarizing information 
  • Essay writing 
  • Spelling and vocabulary development 
  • Creation of the universe 
  • Key lessons on the concept of the passing of time and the activities on the earth both before and after the appearance of human beings
  • Layers of the Earth
  • Force and gravity, deposition
  • Introduction to plate tectonics / Formation of mountains including volcanic
  • Three states of matter 
  • Solutions, matter in suspension, mixtures, chemical reactions
  • Separation, saturation and super saturation
  • The rotation of the Earth and its consequences 
  • The Earth as a sphere and its consequences 
  • The Earth tilted on its axis / Seasons / Climate zones of the Earth
  • Six regions of the US: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Mountain, Southwest, West 
  • Interdependence of human beings in society / Economic geography
  • Fundamental needs of human beings including materials and spiritual needs
  • Map skills 
  • 50 states and capitals 
  • Research projects, using library and internet resources, organize information for writing, correct documentation and formatting 
  • Time and calendars
  • Needs of the plant
  • Functions and varieties of the leaf, roots, stem, flower, fruit and seed
  • Seed plants, classification, photosynthesis, plant reproduction 
  • Animals with backbones: vertebrates vs. invertebrates 
  • Cold and warm blooded animals 
  • Botany nomenclature
  • Classification of the five classes of animals
  • Animal adaptations: camouflage; mimicry 
  • Animal behaviors 
  • Plant and animal classification
  • Introduction to the nervous system 
  • Brain and its functions 
  • Digestive and respiratory systems 
  • Minerals, rocks 
  • Volcanoes 
  • Earthquakes 
  • Introduction to the ecosystem 
  • Decimal System’s hierarchical presentation and symbols
  • Long multiplication using a variety of materials and approaches progressing to abstraction
  • Commutative and distributive laws
  • Decimal fractions including simple operations
  • Rounding numbers to the nearest thousand 
  • Rules of divisibility
  • Addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals 
  • Multiplication of whole numbers and decimals 
  • Division of whole numbers and decimals 
  • Introduction to algebra
  • Data and graphs 
  • Introduction to squaring and cubing
  • Long division using a variety of materials (distributive and group division progressing to abstraction)
  • Congruence and similarity
  • Equivalence
  • Nomenclature of polygons
  • Angles including the classification of triangles, parts of angles, measuring angles, and the four operations with angles
  • Relationships between pairs of angles including adjacent angles, linear pairs, adjacent complementary and supplementary angles and vertically opposite angle
  • Fractions including simple operations with both common and uncommon denominators
  • Adding and subtracting fractions 
  • Multiplying fractions 
  • Area and perimeter 
  • Measurement including length, weight or mass, time, temperature and money
  • Area and the formulas that derive area: Quadrilaterals 
  • Nomenclature of a circle
  • Introduction to volume
  • Introduction to polyhedron
  • Improving vocabulary and comprehension 
  • Parts of speech: all eight 
  • Types of sentences 
  • Transitive and intransitive verbs 
  • Tenses 
  • Sentence analysis and formation 
  • Written language including heraldry, calligraphy, illustration and illumination
  • Composition including factual writing, imaginative writing and style
  • Spoken language forms such as oral reports, speeches, debates, trials, poetry, dialogue and drama
  • Exploration of literature – (Great Books: Series 5)
  • Giving oral presentations 
  • Read-aloud and silent reading 
  • Reading comprehension skills (SRA reading program)
  • Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification 
  • Using appropriate and effective research and organizational strategies in writing 
  • Peer review strategies 
  • Spelling and vocabulary development 
  • Map skills: land forms, continents, physical geography 
  • Mapping: Major cities around the world
  • Mapping: the 50 capitals and states 
  • Work of water (Work of the river including highlands and lowlands, names of rivers, towns and cities around rivers and valleys and canyons / Rains including erosion, earth pillars and ocean waves / Work of ice including glaciers and the water cycle)
  • Work of air 
  • Movement of the Earth’s crust 
  • Rock formation 
  • Mountain formation and fold and block mountains and kinds of faults
  • Early civilizations
  • Spread of vegetation
  • The development of timelines
  • Human Society (Interdependence of human beings in society / Economic geography / Geography nomenclature)
  • Migration 
  • American history 
  • Research project, giving oral presentations 
  • Inventions and inventors
  • Periodic table of the elements 
  • Parts of the atom 
  • Chemical symbols of elements 
  • Electricity
  • Seasons and climate change 
  • Pollution: air, water and land
  • Hands on gardening, types of soil and plants
  • Digestive, circulatory and respiratory systems 
  • Functioning of the human heart 
  • Food-chain, food groups 
  • Plant and animal classification
  • Classification of leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, stem and roots 
  • Plant kingdom 
  • Animal kingdom 
  • Invertebrates 
  • Ecology: Ecosystem
  • Earth and its atmosphere
  • Whole numbers and decimals 
  • Rules of divisibility
  • Long division without material 
  • Squaring and cubing 
  • Operations with squares and cubes
  • Cubing binomials and trinomials
  • Extraction of square and cube roots
  • Ratio and proportions
  • Percentage 
  • Time, rate , interest and principal 
  • Intro to probability 
  • Factors: highest common factor and lowest common multiples
  • Data and graphs 
  • Introduction to algebra including balancing equations, solving for unknowns and word problems
  • Signed numbers including simple operations
  • Non-decimal bases including simple operations
  • Powers of numbers including expanded notation and simple operations
  • Number theory and fractions 
  • Addition of fractions and mixed numbers 
  • Subtractions and mixed numerals 
  • Multiplication and division of fractions and mixed numerals 
  • Tools of geometry
  • Measurement of angles 
  • Perimeter, area and volume 
  • Area and the formulas that derive area: triangles and circles 
  • Relationships of angles formed by parallel lines
  • Lines including kinds of lines, parts and positions of lines
  • Exploration of the Pythagorean theorem
  • Measurement including length, weight or mass, time, temperature and money
  • Nomenclature and construction of polyhedrons