Throughout the course of the year we concentrate on the following areas:

Language Arts:

• Reading Street (Scott Foresman series) - an integrated approach
• Zaner Bloser workbook for phonics
• Writing to Read computer program
• silent sustained reading
• classroom library
• sight word - Dolche
• seasonal prose and verse
• dramatic play
• story telling
• fairy tales

Math: Saxon

hands-on materials

worksheet for each lesson and assessment

• tangrams
• geometric solids
• teddy bear counters
• linking cubes
• graphing
• pennies
• nickels and dimes

Handwriting:

• long and short vowels
• journaling
• copy board work
• letter identification
• sound identification
• consonants
• beginning sounds
• pre-reading

Religion: Adopting Jesus as our Master Teacher

• Blest Are We Religion Series
• Our Blessed Mother Mary
• missions
• church attendance
• daily prayers

Art:

• watercolor
• drawing
• collage
• modeling
• seasonal crafting
• working with fiber

Science:

• parts of the flower
• parts of the butterfly
• solar system
• parts of tree
• parts of bicycle
• life cycle
• animal study (classification)
• fun on the farm

Physical Education:

• outdoor games
• outside recess

Music:

• seasonal songs and verses everyday - all day
• circle dancing
• Christmas concert

Shelf work:

• treasure map making
• wooden puzzles
• sewing basket
• push pin work
• shaving cream fun
• Sensorial: order and gradation
• Language Arts Materials: metal insets, letter and sound recognition, object baskets, story basket, labeling parts of the farm
• Math materials: 100 board, mystery number, order and gradation, values, 1 to 1 correspondence

Geography/History:

• living in a castle
• dragons and knights
• people and places
• songs and musical instruments from around the world
• Patriotic music
• map making: continent maps, land and water formation

Homekeeping:

• table scrubbing
• shelf dusting
• material washing
• sweeping up the floors
• library
• shoe polishing
• mirror cleaning
• arranging flowers
• watering plants

Lots of computer games in classroom for daily use.