Click the links below for an overview of the topics taught in each grade level:

If you would like more detail about a specific grade level, you can:

• Visit Rubicon Atlas (password: suisse), where we document our curriculum and continuously update it to match what is being taught

• Look in your child's workbook

• Ask your child's homeroom teacher for more information

Kindergarten

• Matching and Sorting

• Numbers to 10

• Ordering Numbers to 10

• Shapes and Patterns

• Measurement with Non-Standard Units

• Comparing Numbers to 10

• Numbers to 20

• Number Bonds to 10

• Addition and Subtraction to 10

• Time: Ordering Events, Reading a Clock, Telling Time to the Hour, Months, Years, Using a Calendar

Grade 1

• Calendar and Time: Use a Calendar, Write the Date, Tell Time to the Hour and to the Half Hour

• Counting to 10

• Number Bonds to 10

• Addition and Subtraction Facts to 10

• Shapes and Patterns: Common Plane Shapes, Common Solid Shapes, Using Shapes to Create Patterns

• Ordinal Numbers

• Numbers to 20

• Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20

• Length and Weight with Non-Standard Units

• Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs

• Numbers to 40

• Addition and Subtraction to 40

• Mental Math Strategies

• Numbers to 120

• Addition and Subtraction to 100

• Getting Ready for Multiplication and Division

• Money: Coin Denominations within U.S. Currency, Addition and Subtraction with Coins within $1

Grade 2

• Whole Numbers to 1,000

• Addition and Subtraction to 1,000

• Introduction to Multiplication and Division

• Multiplication Tables of 2, 5, and 10

• Metric Measurement of Length: Meters, Centimeters

• Mass: Grams, Kilograms

• Volume: Liters

• Mental Math and Estimation

• Money: Denominations within U.S. Currency, Writing Dollars and Cents, Comparing Amounts

• Introduction to Fractions

• Customary Measurement of Length: Inches, Feet

• Time: Telling Time to the Minute, Elapsed Time, A.M./P.M.

• Multiplication Tables of 3 and 4

• Picture Graphs, Tally Charts, and Line Plots

• Lines, Curves, Flat Surfaces, and Curved Surfaces

• Shapes and Patterns: Plane Shapes; Solid Shapes; Angles in a Shape; Patterns with Shapes, Colors, Sizes, and Position

Grade 3

• Whole Numbers to 10,000

• Mental Math and Estimation

• Addition and Subtraction to 10,000

• Multiplication Tables of 6, 7, 8, and 9 (also includes Tables for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10)

• Multiplication up to 3-Digit Numbers by 1-Digit Numbers

• Division up to 2-Digit Numbers by 1-Digit Numbers

• Real-World Problems with Multiplication and Division

• Addition and Subtraction with Money

• Metric Mass, Length, and Volume

• Bar Graphs and Line Plots

• Fractions: The Value of Fractions, Comparing and Ordering Fractions, Equivalent Fractions, Simplest Form

• Time and Temperature: Telling Time to the Minute, Converting Between Hours and Minutes, Elapsed Time, Reading and Measuring Temperature, Estimating Temperature

• Angles: Identifying Angles, Right Angles, Comparing Angles

• Lines: Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines

• 2D Shapes: Open and Closed Figures, Classifying Polygons and Quadrilaterals using their Properties, Manipulate 2D Shapes, Congruence and Symmetry

• Introduction to Area and Perimeter

Grade 4

• Whole Numbers to 100,000

• Estimation and Number Theory

• Multiplication with up to 4-Digit Numbers by 2-Digit Numbers

• Division with up to 4-Digit Numbers by 1-Digit Numbers

• Tables and Graphs

• Data: Averages (Mean, Median, and Mode), Use Line/Stem-and-Leaf Plots to Represent Data

• Probability: Determine the Probability of an Event, Express Probability as a Fraction

• Fractions and Mixed Numbers

• Addition and Subtraction with Fractions

• Decimals to Hundredths

• Addition and Subtraction with Decimals

• Conversion of Measurement

• Angles: Estimation, Measurement, Finding Unknown Angle Measurements

• Perpendicular and Parallel Lines

• Properties of Squares and Rectangles

• Area and Perimeter of Rectangles

• Symmetry

• Tessellation

Grade 5

• Whole Numbers to 10,000,000

• Multiplication up to 4-Digit Numbers by 2-Digit Numbers

• Division up to 4-Digit Numbers by 2-Digit Numbers

• Order of Operations

• Addition and Subtraction with Fractions and Mixed Numbers

• Multiplication and Division with Fractions and Mixed Numbers

• Algebra: Using Variables, Simplifying Expressions, Solving Equations with up to 3 Steps

• Area of Triangles, and Rectangles with Fractional Side Lengths

• Ratio

• Decimals to Thousandths

• Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals

• Percent

• Double Bar Graphs and Plotting Points and Lines on the Coordinate Grid

• Angles: on a Line, at a Point, Vertical Angles, Finding Unknown Angle Measurements

• Properties of Triangles and 4-Sided Figures

• Calculating Volume and Surface Area

For more information about the transition from Grade 5 to Grade 6, visit the Transition to Middle School page.