Kindergarten Curriculum Overview

Humanities

• Nursery Rhymes and Fables
• Stories
• Native Americans
• Kings and Queens
• Columbus and Pilgrims
• Colonial Towns and Townspeople
• Presidents and American Symbols
• Character traits taught through the Bible
• US and World Map
  
  

Language Arts

• Direction of print

• Upper and lower case letters- recognition & sounds

• Long and short sounds of 5 major vowels

• Count the number of words in a sentence 

• Orally pronounce, blend and segment words into syllables

• Identify and produce rhyming words

• Blend consonant-vowel-consonant sounds to read words

• Read common high frequency and "tricky words" by sight 109 of the 220 Dolch Words

• Identify the beginning, middle and final sounds in words with 2-3 phonemes

• Add, delete or substitute sounds to change one-syllable words

• Orally read emergent-reader texts, maintaining an appropriate pace and self-correcting strategies

Reading Foundational Skills

• Actively engage in group reading activities
• Author and Illustrator
• Illustrations
• Main Topic and Key Details
• Retell
• Character, Settings or Events
• Compare and Contrast stories/characters/etc.
• Ask and answer questions about unknown words and story elements
• Participate in collaborative conversations
• Give, restate and follow simple two-step directions

Literature

• Nursery Rhymes and Fables- Hush: A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
• The Five Senses- Rainbow Joe and Me by Maria Diaz Strom
• Stories- Red Riding Hood by James Marshall
• Plants- The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
• Farms- The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos
• Native Americans- D is for Drum by Debbie and Michael Shoulders
• Kings and Queens- Princess Hyacinth (the Surprisingly Tale of a Girl who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide
• Seasons and Weather- Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
• Columbus and Pilgrims- Pilgrims of Plymouth by Susan E. Goodman
• Colonial Towns and Townspeople- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
• Taking Care of the Earth- The Wump World by Bill Peet
• Presidents and American Symbols- If I Were President by Catherine Stier
  

Writing

• Use words and pictures to relay story or information

• Develop a main idea and provide some information about a topic

• Capitalization, Punctuation and Spacing

• Write most uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet, correctly shaping and spacing the letters of the words

• Apply the writing process with support to revise writing by adding simple details and correcting errors: opinion, personal narrative, and nonfiction writing

• Nouns and Verbs

• Different kinds of sentences: . ?!

• Beginning Writing

• Opinion Writing

• Informative Writing

• How To Writing

• Personal Narrative Writing

Mathematics

• Counting by 1's, 10's, 5's, and 2's & also counting on 

• Read and write numbers to 20, read number words 1-10

• Cardinality-how many numbers in a set

• Compare numerals- greater/less than symbol

• Identify combinations that equal 5 and 10

• Sort objects by a variety of attributes

• Discuss measurable attributes of an object- length, weight, volume, etc.

• 2D and 3D shapes-identify, sort, describe attributes, model, draw

• Use positional words to describe location

• Solve addition and subtraction problems with numbers 1-10

• Represent and solve addition and subtraction story problems

• Decompose numbers into pairs in more than one way, record each decomposition (number tree, unifix cubes, tens frame,etc.)

Special Events

• Pumpkin Drop

• Hayride Days

• Lead Thanksgiving Chapel

• End of Kindergarten Celebration

• Pumpkin Exploration Station Day

• Guest Readers (parents and staff)

• Field Day

• Camp-Learned-a-Lot

• Class Celebrations: Thanksgiving, Christmas, 100th Day, Valentine's Day, and Easter

Science

• PLTW Themes:

  Human Body

  Pushes and Pulls

  Explore and Design

• Plants

• Birds

• The Five Senses

• Farms

• Recycling

• Seasons/weather

Bible

• Creation

• God Cares for His Creation

• Adam and Eve

• Cain and Abel

• The Story of Noah

• The Tower of Babel

• Abraham and Isaac

• Jacob and Esau

• Joseph and His New Coat

• Joseph in Egypt

• Moses and the Princess

Art

• Drawing: Caves
• Painting: Color Wheel, Sun/Moon/Stars, Self Portrait with Warm and Cool Colors
• Paper Arts: Grayscale Collage
• Ceramics: Hand Building Animals
• 3-D: Weaving

1st Grade Curriculum Overview

Humanities

• Early World Civilizations - Egypt and Mesopotamia
• Early American Civilizations
• American Independence
• Frontier Explorers
• Me on the Map

Language Arts/Literature

• Strong Content Knowledge
• Explicit, Systematic Approach to Phonics
• Writing in Response to Reading
• Spelling

Mathematics

• Numbers All Around Us
• Strategies with Dice and Dominoes
• Adding
• Subtracting
• Counting and Comparing
• Utilizing a Number Line
• Geometry
• Facts and Measurement
• One Hundred and Beyond
• Time, Measurement and Data

Special Events

• Pumpkin Drop - STEAM
• Dull's Pumpkin Patch 
• Children's Museum - Paleontologist
• Jameson Camp - Outdoor Ed

Science

• The Human Body
• Astronomy
  • PLTW-Observing the Sun, Moon, Stars
• History of the Earth - Geology/Paleontology
• Animals and Habitats
  • PLTW-Animal Adaptations
• PLTW - Light and Sound
• PLTW - Animated Storytelling (Coding)

Outdoor Education

• Vermicomposting

Bible

• The World
• Special Promises
• Worship
• A Savior
• Children
• Friends
• Special Blessings
• Weekly Scripture Memorization
• Weekly Chapel 

Art

• Drawing: Landscape (Outdoors)
• Painting: Monochromatic
• Paper Arts: Mosaics
• Ceramics: Hand Building Pinch Pots
• 3-D: Found Object Creature Heads

Humanities

• Early Asian Civilization
• Early Greek Civilization
• War of 1812
• Westward Expansion
• Maps
• Roles of Citizens
• Immigration
• Local Economics
• Local Community History, Timeline, Leaders
• Civil War
• Greek Myths
  
  

Language Arts/Literature

• Decoding and encoding CVC, CVr, V, VV, VCe, Cle syllable types
• Paragraph development
• Reading decodable text
• Fairy Tales and Folktales
• Intro to Persuasive Writing
• Guided Research Writing
• Personal Narratives
• Book Reports
• Spelling
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
• Stone Fox

Mathematics

• Addition within 1000
• Subtraction within 1000
• Money and Change
• Measurement
• Reading time to the nearest 5 minutes
  

Special Events

• Pancake Day
• Monarch Butterfly Release
• Pumpkin Drop
• Children's Museum STEM lab - Weather Tools
  

Science

• Science of Nature
• Insects
• Human Body, Building Blocks and Nutrition
• Grids and Games with Two Button Control
• Form and Function, How God's creation influences our inventions
• Properties of Matter
• The Changing Earth 
• Various Project Lead the Way (PLTW) assignments 

Outdoor Education

• Monarch Butterfly Project
• Pancakes by the Bonfire with ELA Skills Unit

Bible

• The Life of Moses
• Adornment Book - 12 names of Jesus
• Scripture memorization: The Lord's Prayer, the Armor of God (Eph 6:10-19), (1 Cor 13:4-8, 13) Christmas Story (Luke 2:7-20)

Art 

• Drawing: Caves
• Painting: Color Wheel, Sun/Moon, Self Portrait with Warm and Cool Colors
• Paper Arts: Grayscale Collage
• Ceramics: Hand Building Animals
• 3-D Design: Weaving
  

Physical Education

• Human Body, Building Blocks, and Nutrition

3rd Grade Curriculum Overview

Humanities

Colonial History

Pioneer Life and the Oregon Trail

Major Landforms

Economics

Current Events

Language Arts/Literature

Amplify Curriculum

Writing with increased stamina

Personal Narratives

Expository Writing

Opinion Based Writing

Charlotte's Web

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe

Mathematics

Bridges Mathematics

Students focus intensively on the four critical areas specified by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in Grade Three:

• • Developing understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100
    
    
  • Developing understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions (fractions with numerator 1)
    
    
  • Developing understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and of area
    
    
  • Describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes
    
    

Content Outline/Scope and Sequence

Special Events

Animal Tracks

Wilbur Day

Mini Mall

Classroom Solar System Models

Rube Goldberg Project

Apply Valley One Room Pioneer School

Pioneer Day 

Science

Indiana Mammals

Weather

Computer Programming

Plant Life Cycle

Astronomy

Simple Machines

Bible

Weekly Chapels

Scripture Memorization

Abraham and Sarah

Isaac

Jacob

Joseph

Ruth

Daniel

Art

Drawing: Cultural Pattern with Charcoal

Painting: Portrait Painting with Tempera

Paper Arts: Mosaic Art in One Color

Ceramics: Hand Building Imaginative Creatures

3-D Design: Nature Sculptures

4th Grade Curriculum Overview

Humanities

• Indiana History 
  • Geography
  • Government
  • Early People
• Hispanic Heritage
• Black History
• Women's History
• Asian/Pacific Islander
• Famous Hoosiers

Language Arts

• Character and Plot Development Through Novels
• Narrative Writing
• Poetry - Analyzing and Creating
• Fables
• Types of Sentences
• Parts of Speech
• Paragraph Writing
• Informative Writing
• Persuasive Writing

Literature

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
• Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Spears
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Mathematics

• Addition and Subtract Strategies
• Long Multiplication and Division Strategies
• Factors and Multiples
• Fractions: Comparing, Common Denominators, Simplifying, Converting Mixed Numbers to Improper, Ordering
• Identifying Shapes and Attributes
• Area and Perimeter
• March Madness Project (data analysis, fractions, decimals, and percentages)

Special Events

• Grinch Day
• Pizzeria Room Transformation
• Bread Baking Fractions
• Famous Hoosiers Wax Museum
• Food Truck Creations and Presentations
• Native American Nation Presentations
  

Science

• Adaptations
• PLTW- Physical Science: Energy Collisions and Conversions
• Engineering Process
• PLTW - Engineering:Input/Output of the Human Brain
• Energy, Heat, and Light
• Weathering and Erosion

Bible

• The Life of Jesus
• How the Holy Spirit Works in Us
• Life of Paul
• Weekly Chapel
• Scripture Memorization
  

Art

• Sketchbook: Process Documentation and Nature Studies
• Drawing: Self-Portrait with Ratio and Proportion
• Painting:Color Wheel Painting (Increased Fidelity) with Color Theory and Artist's Choice using Technique and Composition
• Paper Arts: Symmetry Art
• Ceramics: Architectural Building with Slab Forms
• 3-D: Nature Sculptures