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Lower School

KINDERGARTEN & FIRST GRADE COURSES

Language Arts
Mathematics

K

• Elementary geometry (2-D shapes)
• Counting 1-10

• Counting by 2s, 5s,
and 10s

KINDERGARTEN

• Color recognition

1

• Directionality: right
and left
• Patterns
(AB, AABB, ABC)
• Telling time in
analog and digital
• Hour

• Half hour

• Quarter hour

• Addition and
subtraction

Reading
• Story structure
• Print concepts
• Author and
illustrator

• Retelling stories

• Fiction vs. nonfiction

• Blending letter
sounds

• Reading short vowel
words (cat, dog, etc.)
• Reading long vowel
words (rain, cake,
etc.)

Science/Health
• Four seasons
• Weather

• Five senses
• Space

• Natural science
• Animals

• Basic sight words

• Plants

• Compare and
contrast

• Small group reading

• Insects

• Punctuation marks

• Relevance of writing

• Setting, characters,
plot

• Making predictions
• Basic parts of speech
• Letter writing

• Creative writing

• Letter and sound
recognition

• Reading readiness
• Rhyme

• Independent reading

• Environment

• Proper handwriting
techniques

• Basic care of body

• Number writing
1–100

• Nutrition

• Letter writing

• Uppercase A-Z

• Lowercase A-Z

• Story writing and
journaling

• Teeth

• Exercise

• Food groups
• Heart
• Brain

• Bones

• Muscles

• Syllables

• Number sense and
operation
• Addition

• Subtraction

• Letter and sound
recognition

• Alphabetical order

• Memorize and learn
126 phonic sounds

• Money

• Identify special
phonemic sounds

• Temperature

• Syllables

• Time and date

• Compound words

• Analyzing data

• Root words

• Problem solving

• Double consonants

• Geometry

• Comprehend
phrases and match
phrase to the correct
picture

• Probability

• Suffixes/prefixes

• Weight and
measurement

• Contractions

• Shapes
• Area

• Algebra patterns

• Know and write days
and months of the
year

Social Studies
• Flag and pledge of
allegiance
• Country and state
• Holidays and
historic people

• Home and family
• Cultures and
people groups

• Community
helpers and places
• City

• Suburb
• Town

• Country

• Presidents

• Directions

• Perspective
• Map keys

• Cardinal
directions

• Geography and
maps

• Sounds in words

• Fractions and
decimals

FIRST GRADE

Writing

• Continents

• Participate in
reader’s theatre

• Short vowel letters
and words

• Long vowel sounds
and words
• Rhyming

• Write sentences

• Capitalization and
punctuation
• Write stories and
poems

• Singular and plural
words
• Story comprehension
• Riddles

• Homonyms
• Opposites

• Weekly spelling lists

• Discovering
• Myself

• My toys

• Animals
• Insects
• Plants

• Seasons

• Communities
• Citizenship
• Our rights

• Government
• Presidents

• Map and globe
skills

• Health, safety, and
manners

• Resources

• My health

• American symbols

• My growth and
habits
• My safety

• My manners

• Weather

• How our country
began
• Holidays and
heroes

• Change in
transportation
• Jobs people do