Curriculum

Children will be able to use common, proper, and possessive nouns. For example, they might write sentences using "dog" as a common noun, "Sarah" as a proper noun, and "Sarah's book" as a possessive noun.

Children will be able to use end punctuation for sentences.** For example, completing a sentence like "I have a dog" with a period, or using a question mark for "Do you have a pet?" and an exclamation point for "That is amazing!"

Children will be able to explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings with guidance and support from adults. For example, they might discuss different shades of meaning between words like "tall" and "high" or understand how "look," "glance," and "gaze" differ in context and intensity.

Children will be able to use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences, such as "He hops" for singular and "We hop" for plural.

Children will be able to use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.** For example, they will write sentences like "We have a party on July 4, 2023," and "I like apples, bananas, and oranges."

Children will be able to sort common objects into categories, such as shapes or foods, to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. For example, they might group apples, bananas, and carrots separately from circles, squares, and triangles during an activity.

Children will be ale to use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns, for example, using "I" in a sentence like "I have a cat" and "their" in "They have their toys."

Children will be able to use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.** For example, they might spell words like "cat," "dog," and "happy" correctly, as well as irregular words like "said" and "was."

Children will be able to demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). For example, they might match "hot" with "cold," "run" with "walk," or "happy" with "sad" during a learning activity.

Children will be able to use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future** by constructing sentences such as "Yesterday I walked home," "Today I walk home," and "Tomorrow I will walk home."