Curriculum

Children will develop the ability to use and understand verbal ordinal terms from first to twentieth.

Children will learn to represent addition and subtraction using various methods including objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (such as claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, mathematical expressions, and equations.

Children will be able to solve addition and subtraction word problems and perform addition and subtraction within 10 by using objects, drawings, or other visual aids to represent the problem.

Children will learn to decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in multiple ways, utilizing objects or drawings to aid their understanding. They will also record each decomposition through drawings or equations (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).

Children will be able to find the number that, when added to any given number from 1 to 9, totals 10. They will use objects or drawings to facilitate this understanding and will record the answer using a drawing or an equation.

Children will learn to compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and additional ones, utilizing methods such as objects, drawings, or verbal explanations to demonstrate and understand this decomposition.

Children will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces about their favorite books. For example, a 5-year-old might choose to talk about "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The child could draw a picture of the caterpillar eating through various foods, dictate to a teacher or use beginner writing skills to note, "My favorite book is 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.'" They could then express their opinion, "I like it because the caterpillar eats so many things and turns into a butterfly."

Children will combine drawing, dictating, and writing to create informative texts about a specific topic. For instance, a 5-year-old could choose the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle to explain the lifecycle of a butterfly. The child might draw the stages the caterpillar goes through, from egg to butterfly, dictate to an adult or jot down basic sentences like, "The caterpillar starts as an egg on a leaf." They could add, "It eats a lot and grows, then sleeps in a cocoon before becoming a butterfly."

Children will use drawing, dictating, and writing to tell a story. Using "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle, a 5-year-old might draw and label the caterpillar eating foods from Monday to Sunday. They could dictate or write, "First, he ate an apple. Then, two pears." They might finish by saying, "I liked when he turned into a butterfly," showing how to sequence events and express reactions.

Children will learn to enhance their writing by responding to feedback with adult help. For example, a 5-year-old writes about a day at the zoo and draws a picture of animals they saw. An adult might ask, "What sounds did the animals make?" or a peer might suggest, "Write about the big elephant you saw!" The child can then add these details to their writing, such as "The lion roared loudly" or "The big elephant sprayed water with its trunk."