Curriculum

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."

Children will be able to demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing, for example, by correctly capitalizing proper nouns and the first word in sentences, using periods and question marks appropriately, and spelling grade-level appropriate words accurately.

Children will be able to spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.** For example, if a child hears the word "bicycle," they might spell it as "biksel" based on their understanding of the sounds in the word.

Children will be able to demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). For instance, they might learn to identify "big" as the opposite of "small" or understand that "push" is the antonym of "pull" through various study exercises.

Children will be able to demonstrate A-Z (upper and lower case) phonological awareness and visual recognition.