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Lower Elementary
(Grades 1-3)
Language Arts
Word Analysis:
- Listening skills and speaking skills
- Word study skills: usage, phonics, suffixes, prefixes, syllables, contractions, compound words, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
- Spelling and vocabulary; application
- Punctuation; periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks
- Study skills, test taking skills
- Dictionary skills, alphabetizing, guide words, key punctuation
Reading:
- Reading comprehension - 7 specific skills: main idea, drawing conclusions, locating answers, getting details, making inferences, vocabulary
- Library skills leading to research papLers and projects
- Reference materials; thesaurus, atlas, encyclopedias, dictionary, non-fiction books
Handwriting Skills:
Writing Skills :
- Grammatical word usage, editing skills, rewriting, mechanics, form
- Book Reports; group projects, cooperative learning
- Creative writing, biographies, animal reports; poetry; letter writing
- Oral and silent reading, group reading
- History of Language
Mathematics
Operation:
- Patterning
- Concrete whole number processes (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Abstraction of whole number computation skills to problem solving situations (story problems)
- Factoring, multiples, squares and cubing
- Basic fraction operation, reduction, mixed fractions
- Knowledge of equations, missing number, timed tests, skip counting, rounding
- Roman numerals
- Decimals
Algebra:
- Positive numbers
- Concrete squaring and cubing binomials and trinomials, decanomials, square roots, cube roots
- Abstract square roots, cubing
Geometry:
- Classification and nomenclature; angles, triangles, polygons, lines, quadrilaterals
- Similar, equal and congruent
- Concrete perimeter, area, circumference, and volume of geometric solids
- Tables and graphs, protractor
Measurement:
- Time and money
- Linear / Volume
Cultural Subjects
History:
- Timeline work; creation of solar system, earth's development, clock of eras
- Timeline of Life
- Human development, history of civilization
Ecology:
Geography/Mapping:
- Land/water forms, continents, U.S. state research
Current Events:
- Newspaper, the media
- Units on other cultures; cultural differences and likenesses, children of other lands, customs, holidays
- U.S. Presidents, famous people
Sciences
Life Science:
Physical Science:
Earth Science:
- Physical Geography, Geology
Enrichment Subjects
Foreign Language:
- French, Japanese, Spanish; language and culture
Music:
- Appreciation, skills, annual performance
Art:
Physical Education:
- Health, self-confidence, teamwork and sportsmanship, athletic skills
Communication Skills:
- Problem solving, negotiating, expressing feelings
Computer / Technology
- Programming - LOGO.
- Keyboarding, word processing.
- Interactive problem solving.
- Research, internet browsing, CD Rom.
- Electronic communication, multimedia.
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