Curriculum

Language Arts

Phonics

  • Phonic awareness
  • Beginning, ending, and middle sounds
  • Word building
  • Rhyming words
  • Matching objects and pictures
  • Blending words
  • Consonant digraphs
  • Sight words
  • Singular and plural
  • Beginning reading
  • Advanced reading
  • Short and long vowels
  • Consonant blends

Handwriting

  • Tracing sandpaper letters
  • Rubbings of letters
  • Practicing in sand tray
  • Practicing on chalk board
  • Practicing on unlined paper
  • Practicing on lined paper
  • Spacing before and after letters
  • Upper and lower case changing
  • Tracing and writing name
  • Metal inserts
  • Labeling pictures
  • Creative writing

Sensorial

  • Cylinder blocks (thickness & height)
  • Knobless cylinders (thickness & height)
  • Pink cubes (largest to smallest)
  • Brown prisms (thickest to thinnest)
  • Red rods (longest to shortest)
  • Color tablet (matching & grading)
  • Baric tablets (heaviest to lightest)
  • Thermic tablets (coldest to hottest)
  • Sound cylinders (matching sounds)
  • Smelling jars
  • Tasting jars (sweet, sour, bitter, salty)
  • Geometric solids (name, match to bases & cards, make from paper)

Math

Counting

  • Number rods
  • One-to-one correspondence
  • Sets of numbers
  • Bead stairs
  • Odd and even
  • Tracing calendar
  • Skip counting
  • Place value/decimal system
  • Teens
  • Tens board
  • 100 track
  • Hundred board
  • Squares of numbers (100 chain)
  • Cubes of numbers (1000 chain)

Addition Tray

  • Colored bead bars
  • Addition drawers
  • 4 digit addition
  • Static
  • Dynamic

Subtraction Tray

  • 4 digit subtraction
  • Static
  • Dynamic

Multiplication

  • Multiplication board
  • Mixed multiplication
  • Hand-full multiplication

Division

  • Division Tray
  • Division board

Geometric Plane Figures

  • Constructing geometric plane figures from different triangles

Geometric Solids

  • Bases
  • Matching to pictures
  • Constructing from paper

Fractions

  • Circle and square fraction insets
  • Cooking measurements

Time

  • Days and months
  • Telling hours
  • Telling half-hours
  • Telling quarter-hours

Money

  • Matching coins
  • Naming coins
  • Value of coins
  • Coin book

Measuring

  • Red and blue rods
  • Metric
  • Ruler
  • Inches

Practical Life

Care of Self

  • Hand washing
  • Hanging up coats
  • Putting on coats
  • Blowing noses

Dressing Frames

  • Buttoning
  • Zipping
  • Lacing
  • Tying
  • Buckling
  • Pinning
  • Braiding
  • Snapping

Care of Environment

  • Sweeping
  • Mopping
  • Wiping
  • Folding
  • Dish washing
  • Table setting
  • Dusting
  • Clothes washing

Fine Motor Skills, Hand/Eye Coordination

  • Finger transfer
  • Tongs
  • Tweezers
  • Jars/lids
  • Nuts/bolts
  • Spooning
  • Dry pouring
  • Baster
  • Eye dropper
  • Pouring liquids
  • Sink and float
  • Sifting and grating
  • Making bubbles with beaters, whips, and whisks
  • Mortar/pestle
  • Bead stringing
  • Lacing cards
  • Sewing buttons

Cooking Class

Preparing and Cooking Foods from Scratch

  • Read recipe/follow directions
  • Measure liquids
  • Measure dry ingredients
  • Peeling and cutting fruits & vegetables
  • Cut, chop, grate, slice, sift, stir
  • Use kitchen tools safely
  • Nut cracking and shelling (if no children in class are allergic to nuts)

Social Development and Cultural Introduction

Grace and Courtesy

  • Greeting
  • Raising hands
  • Taking turns
  • Speaking politely
  • Watching and listening to others
  • Teaching others
  • Using table manners

Group and Movement Activities

  • Walking in a line
  • Carrying a tray, flag, and bell
  • Walking on a beam
  • Hop and skip
  • Silence game

Participate in Show and Tell

Geography

  • Listen to presentations on other cultures
  • Examine artifacts from other cultures
  • Globes-land/water, continents
  • Land forms
  • World biomes
  • Solar system
  • Puzzle maps-world map, each continent divided into countries, US map divided into states, Canada map divided into providences

Science

  • Living/non-living
  • Plants/animals
  • Scales, fur, or feathers
  • Omnivore, carnivore, or herbivore
  • Classification of vertebrates
  • Growing indoor plants
  • Gardening
  • Animal care
  • Weather
  • Botany cabinet-parts of a tree, flower, and leaf
  • Leaf cabinet-types of leaves
  • Zoology puzzles
  • Air experiments
  • Water experiments
  • Magnets
  • Observe the life cycle of a seed, frog, butterfly, and chicken

Music

  • Instruments
  • Movement songs
  • Marching
  • Matching bell tones
  • Xylophone
  • Music maker
  • Making instruments
  • Participation in performances

Art

  • Using scissors
  • Pasting and gluing
  • Crayon rubbing
  • Finger paint
  • Tempera paint
  • Water colors
  • Printing
  • Hole punching
  • Color mixing
  • Play dough
  • Clay
  • Paper crafts
  • Artists
  • Landscapes, portraits, and still life