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