Learning Areas
Mathematics & Geometry
Number Sense & Counting – Understanding numbers, counting forward and backward, recognizing quantities, identifying number patterns, and skip counting
Place Value – Understanding units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and beyond, while developing an understanding of how numbers are structured
Math Facts – Building fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Operations – Developing understanding of static and dynamic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Word Problems – Analyzing problems, identifying key information, and using multiple steps to find solutions
Shapes & Geometry – Identifying 2D and 3D shapes and exploring their attributes
Patterns & Relationships – Recognizing, extending, and creating patterns
Measurement – Exploring length, weight, time, estimation, and comparisons
Fractions – Understanding fractions as parts of a whole, including halves, thirds, and fourths
Hundred Board
Golden Beads
Stamp Game
Literacy Development
Phonemic Awareness – Hearing, identifying, blending, segmenting, decoding, and manipulating sounds in words
Spelling Patterns – CVC words, consonant blends, digraphs, double letters, glued sounds, silent e, long vowel patterns, diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, silent consonants, and advanced spelling exceptions
Sight Words (High-Frequency Words) – Building automatic recognition of commonly used words
Vocabulary – Connecting images, words, and definitions to build word knowledge
Reading Fluency – Developing accuracy, appropriate speed, and expression
Reading Comprehension – Using context clues, making inferences, identifying main ideas and key details, making connections, sequencing events, and predicting
Sentence Structure – Forming complete sentences with correct word order, capitalization, and punctuation
Writing Process – Developing handwriting, writing sentences and paragraphs, and creating stories, biographies, persuasive essays, and research projects
Story Elements – Understanding characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, and theme
Grammar – Learning nouns, articles, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections
Sandpaper Letters
Moveable Alphabet
Waseca Spelling
Grammar Symbols