Enrollment for current families is now open for the 2025-2026 school year. We would be delighted to have you join us again next year at CONNECT!
Shapes
Counting: By ones and tens up to 100
Writing the numbers 0 to 20 & matching the number of objects with the correct written number
Comparing: More, Fewer, Larger, Smaller
Classifying: Same, Different, Sorting
Size: Tall, Short, Light, Heavy
Money: Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters
Adding as putting together and Subtracting as taking away
Using drawings or objects and decompose numbers up to 10 to write the equation (3+4=7, etc)
Phonemic Awareness: Rhyming, Phoneme Blending, Phoneme Segmentation, Phoneme Isolation with Initial and Final Sounds, Adding & Deleting Phonemes in Words, Blending and Segmenting Syllables
Letter Sounds: Consonants and Vowels
Letter Recognition: Upper and Lower Case Letters
Word Patterns: CVC short vowel words, Onset & Rime
High Frequency Words
Consonant Digraphs
Consonant Blends
Print Concepts: Reading Left to Right, Top to Bottom
Using Pictures to Help Understand a Story
Retelling a Story
Number Sense: Relationships between numbers, fact families, math fact strategies, representing numbers concretely, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, word problems
Patterns: Create, recognize, & extend
Place Value up to 1,000,000: Write numbers in standard, expanded, and word form
Fractions: Parts of a whole, equivalent fractions, comparing, mixed numbers
Decimals: Tenths and hundredths
Money: Making Change
Percents ProbabilityFunctions & Algebra: Using Variables
Geometry: Area & Perimeter, Polygons
Measurement
Data & Graphs
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness
Word Families
Comprehension, Strategies, and Fluency
Book Studies
All of the following skills are covered through novel studies and various units (ex. non fiction, poetry, short stories) throughout the year:
Sequencing
Main idea/Supporting Details
Cause/Effect
Decoding: Context clues, syllables, base words, affixes
Characters: Attributes, development, change, conflict
Setting: Time & place
Plot: Organization of the story
Theme
Figurative Language
Reading Strategies: Reading is Thinking, Making Connections, The Inner Conversation/Fix-Up Strategies, Schema/Background Knowledge, Questioning, Visualizing, Making Inferences, Synthesize/Summarize
Multiplication and Division Fluency Practice
Number Sense: Apply the concept of place value of whole numbers through hundred millions
Patterns: Recognize rules in patterns found in tables, graphs, and models
Place Value up to 1,000,000: Write numbers in standard, expanded, and word form
Fractions and Decimals: Represent fractions and decimals with models and show the connection between them
Money: Making Change in real world situations
Algebra: Solve for unknown numbers in basic equations
Geometry: Classify angles, find area & perimeter
Data & Graphs: Interpret data from charts, tables, and graphs
All of the following skills are covered through novel studies and various units (ex. non fiction, poetry, short stories) throughout the year:
Main idea/Supporting Details
Sequencing
Cause/Effect
Decoding: Context clues, syllables, base words, affixes
Characters: Attributes, development, change, conflict
Setting: Time & place
Plot: Organization of the story
Theme
Figurative Language
Reading Strategies: Reading is Thinking, Making Connections, The Inner Conversation/Fix-Up Strategies, Schema/Background Knowledge, Questioning, Visualizing, Making Inferences, Synthesize/Summarize
Building vocabulary and word roots
Elements of fiction and literary devices