Curriculum

Children will undersand how to manage money effectively. By acquiring this skill, kids can make informed decisions about saving, spending, investing, and donating. Furthermore, financial literacy aids in fostering a positive attitude towards money and equips children to avoid common financial pitfalls such as debt, fraud, and overspending.

Children will learn to manage their thoughts and impulses, enabling them to resist temptations, distractions, and automatic responses. They will practice pausing to think before acting, ignoring irrelevant information, and focusing on what is important.

Children will learn to add within 100, including summing a two-digit number with a one-digit number and a multiple of 10. They will use models, drawings, and strategies based on place value and the properties of operations to solve these problems efficiently.

Children will informally explore the concept of measurement using standard units. They will become familiar with the metric unit of measure, the meter, as well as the US standard unit, the foot.

Children will learn to partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal parts, referring to these parts as halves, fourths, and quarters. They will use phrases such as "half of," "fourth of," and "quarter of" to describe the shares. They will understand the concept of the whole as being composed of two halves or four quarters.

Children will learn to mentally calculate 10 more or 10 less than any given two-digit number without needing to count each increment. They will understand and explain the reasoning behind adjusting the tens place while keeping the ones place unchanged to quickly find the result.

Children will be able to create their own patterns or methods for classifying objects. Foster their thinking about patterns by asking questions like, “What would come next?” “What happens repeatedly?” “Do you see a pattern?” and “Is this a pattern? Why do you think so?” This approach promotes critical thinking and helps children understand the concepts of order and repetition.

Children will learn to describe objects in their environment by using the names of shapes and articulate the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. They will also understand and utilize language related to directionality, order, and the positions of objects, incorporating terms like up/down and in front/behind to enhance their spatial awareness and communication skills.

Children will be able to compare the numbers of objects in two different groups. They will compare numbers and understand the concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to.

Children will learn to interpret data displayed in pictographs by answering simple questions. They will identify the category with the most items, compare quantities between categories by determining how many more are in one category compared to another, and calculate the total number of items across two categories. This will enhance their ability to analyze and draw conclusions from visual data representations.